The ZZ in CI365ZZDTB5 marks the twin SmartZone configuration at Series 7 specification, giving the same reconfigurable surface as the Series 9 machines with a more conventional control layout. For anyone weighing the two tiers, that is the practical difference: the cooking hardware and the bridging capability are closely comparable, and what you are choosing […]

A single gas burner as a 15″ module is an unusual product, and it exists for a specific kind of cook: someone who has gone induction for everything else but still wants a live flame for charring, wok work or a copper pan. The CG151DNGGB5 is that burner, and because it is used hard and […]

Four sealed burners in a 24″ cooktop means the burners sit close together, and on the CG244DNGX1 that has a practical consequence after cleaning: a burner cap put back slightly off-center will produce a lopsided flame that looks like a problem. It is worth lifting and reseating the caps before booking anything, because that accounts […]

Five burners across 30″ is a dense layout, and the CG305DNGX1 handles it with continuous grates that let pans slide between burners rather than being lifted. Something worth flagging on any gas cooktop: a flame that roars, lifts away from the burner or burns yellow rather than blue is not a cleaning issue, and the […]

The CG365DNGX1 is the natural-gas 36″ five-burner cooktop, the widest gas layout in Fisher & Paykel’s non-professional range. With five burners in use, a single spilled pan can affect more than the burner it landed on: liquid running across the surface reaches the ignition sensing on neighbouring burners, and the result is a cooktop that […]

A 12″ auxiliary cooktop is not meant to be a kitchen’s only hob — the CI122DB1 is a module, designed to sit beside another unit so a cook can build the surface they actually want. Its SmartZone function joins the two small elements into one longer area, which is what makes a narrow module useful […]

Series 9 adds illuminated dials to the 36″ gas cooktop, and the CG365DNGRX2 is that machine in natural-gas form. The illumination is worth understanding as a separate system: it runs on its own low-voltage circuit and has nothing to do with the gas or the ignition, so a dial that has gone dark is a […]

A teppanyaki plate is a genuinely different cooking surface from anything else in a domestic kitchen: instead of zones under glass, the CIT152DX1 gives a solid heated plate you cook directly on. That changes what a problem looks like — nobody complains that a zone will not light, they complain that one end of the […]

The CDV prefix is Fisher & Paykel’s Professional drop-in gas cooktop line, and the CDV3-365-N is the 36″ five-burner natural-gas version. Professional burners run at higher outputs than the domestic range, and that shows in what wears: igniters on the high-output burners see far more thermal cycling, and they are the part most often replaced […]

Fifteen inches is exactly the width that makes SmartZone worth having: bridged, the two zones of the CI152DTTB1 form a single area long enough for a roasting tin or a griddle plate, which no pair of independent rings can do. When the bridge stops working the individual zones usually carry on perfectly, and that combination […]