The 6 Best Electric Stoves and Ranges of 2025
Top pick
This sturdy, powerful stove with basic convection has a great cooktop and baking features for a good price. It’s made by a dependable brand, and it comes in four finishes.
The GE GRF600AV has a great combination of features and functionality for its price (often well below $1,000). It has an appealing, uncomplicated style and comes in four finish options — the most of our picks.
This model’s five-element, glass-ceramic cooktop includes an extra-wide (12-inch) burner, which accommodates oversize skillets or pots, and a 9-inch element. Both large elements are at the front of the cooktop, have a power-boil setting, and are flex-width, meaning they’re able to accommodate pots of different sizes.
The GRF600AV has a basic convection mode (it has a fan to move air, but no extra heating element), which means it bakes and roasts more evenly and quickly than a standard oven. The oven has a number pad to make inputting time and temperature easier, plus no-preheat and air-fry modes and settings for cooking or reheating specific foods like pizza or leftovers.
The bottom of the oven cavity is removable and dishwasher-safe, which can help make clean-up easier. This range also has a steam-cleaning mode.
The GRF600AV is a smart range. GE Appliances is known for good service, support, and quality, and we have recommended GE ranges since we began reviewing them in 2018.
Budget pick
This stove offers especially good value from a brand that ranks high for repairability. It has only four elements and doesn’t have convection, but it comes with a quick-preheat mode.
A particularly good value, the Whirlpool WFES3030 is a nice-looking range that often costs less than $600 and is available in three finishes.
The WFES3030’s powerful, four-element cooktop has two large elements that should heat as quickly as those of our top pick; both elements are flex-width (9 or 6 inches), so they can accommodate different pan sizes. This cooktop doesn’t have as many functions as pricier versions, or a fifth, low-power warming element. But its two rear, lower-power burners have a melt setting — a nice addition.
Like most ranges at the price, the WFES3030’s oven doesn’t have convection, an air-fry mode, a number pad for inputting times or temperature, or a hidden lower baking element. But its no-preheat settings are especially nice to have if you tend to bake frozen foods like pizzas or lasagna. This model doesn’t have a self-cleaning setting.
The WFES3030 is Energy Star–certified, so it’s eligible for federal electric appliance rebates. Our research and user surveys show that Whirlpool Corporation consistently ranks high for distribution, service, and repairability.
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This handsome front-control range has a true convection oven with advanced features for bakers and a cooktop bridge for a dual-element griddle. But it comes in just two finishes.
If you spend a lot of time baking, roasting, and braising, the Frigidaire Gallery GCRE3060 is an affordable option with a lot of advanced features. It looks nice, too, though it’s available in just two stainless steel finishes.
The Gallery GCRE3060 has a true convection oven with an extra heating element by its fan, which allows for faster, more-even baking and roasting. It has no-preheat and air-fry modes, and modes for steam-baking and roasting and slow-and-low cooking. It also comes with a plug-in temperature probe, which can monitor the internal temperature of cooking foods and turn off the oven when a target temp is reached. Like our top pick, this model has a number pad for inputting oven time and temperature, and it has steam and high-heat self-cleaning modes.
The five-element cooktop supports a dual-element griddle. Its largest, strongest element is not quite as wide as that of our top pick, but it’s a little more powerful and ideal for all but extra-wide pots and pans. The cooktop knobs are located in the front, which is easier (and safer) for most people to use than those on the backsplash.
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If you want a freestanding stove with an induction cooktop, this model is the only widely available option and a great value. It has a true convection oven, but lacks cooktop settings and comes in only one finish.
The IKEA Tvärsäker is the only freestanding induction range with a backsplash that is widely available. (Most induction ranges are slide-in models with front controls and no backsplash.) It’s also a great value for an induction range.
The cooktop has four elements in a variety of sizes, but each element has only eight temperature-adjustment settings, which can make fine-tuning the heat slightly more frustrating. The largest element is only 8.3 inches wide, but it’s sufficient for most cooking.
The Tvärsäker has a true convection oven (with an extra heating element by its fan, for faster, more-even baking) as well as a quick-preheat setting. It also has high-heat and steam self-clean functions.
Professional-style round handles give the Tvärsäker an elevated look, but the range only comes in one finish. This model has a five-year warranty, which is rare at this price (one year is standard).
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This basic electric range has no frills or features, and its old-fashioned coil cooktop is less powerful than those of our other picks. But it’s extra sturdy and easily repairable.
The affordable, well-made, bare-bones Hotpoint RBS160DM is an all-manual and all-mechanical range, with components that can often be replaced easily with or without a repair person. And it’s specifically designed with a sturdy metal body to hold up to heavy-duty long-term use, even in high-turnover rental apartments. All of this is ideal if you are willing to forgo extra features and aesthetics in order to buy one stove to last at least a few decades.
The cooktop has four coil elements. The largest element is 8 inches in diameter and doesn’t bring water to a boil or heat a skillet for searing nearly as fast as the largest elements on our other picks — but it’s still much faster than older coil stoves. You can lift up the cooktop to easily clean underneath it.
The RBS160DM does not have an interior oven light, a digital control pad to input or display the oven temperature, or even an oven window, all of which could break over time. But it has a 5-cubic-foot oven, which is ample, plus a broiler setting and a storage drawer.
This range comes in two finishes. It’s Energy Star–certified and eligible for federal electric appliance rebates.
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This double-oven range has one of the largest lower ovens we’ve seen in this category and an extra-powerful, flexible cooktop. But it doesn’t have a storage drawer, and you have to stoop to access the lower oven.
The GE Profile PB965 is a freestanding double-oven range with both an impressive cooktop and larger lower oven. It’s sleekly designed and comes in two finishes.
This model has the strongest power burner of any range we considered, which should bring water to a boil and skillets to searing hot faster than our other picks. The largest element is flex-width and accommodates three pot sizes instead of two. You can also sync its two medium-size elements for use with a griddle.
Its 4.4-cubic-foot lower convection oven is bigger than those of most double-oven models available (it should fit a 23-pound turkey). Its smaller, standard top oven fits one rack. You do, however, give up a lower storage drawer with this style, and you need to stoop to reach the lower oven.
The PB965 is smart and can sync with a GE Appliances range hood so that lights and the ventilation fan come on when you begin cooking.
