SGC365

What we most often repair on units like this

1. A gas odor means closing the shutoff valve before you look at a burner or igniter
2. With continuous grates over several burners, make sure they sit front to back as marked underneath, since a misplaced one makes pans rock or sit crooked
3. On the SGCS365 ExtraLow version, a burner that cannot hold a low simmer typically traces to that burner's control knob, not the supply

Instead of a separate grate over every burner, the SGC365 has continuous full-surface grates that span the whole cooktop. This 36-inch steel gas model uses standard sealed burners and electronic reignition, and an SGCS365 version adds two ExtraLow burners. An optional griddle, model AGGRIDDLE, rests across the grates.

Those grates produce a complaint that sounds like a burner problem but is not: a pan that rocks or heats unevenly. The grates are marked underneath for a front-to-back position, and putting one in reversed or in the wrong spot is enough to tilt the cookware. We check that before suspecting a flame.

Past the grates, the cooktop is mechanical and follows the pattern of Thermador’s other sealed gas models: clean the igniter and ports, reseat the caps, and, on the SGCS365, test the ExtraLow burner’s knob when it will not hold a low flame.

Key features

• 36-inch sealed-burner gas cooktop with grates that run across all burners
• Standard sealed burners without ExtraLow; the SGCS365 version adds two ExtraLow burners
• Steel cooktop surface
• Griddle accessory available as model AGGRIDDLE
• Electronic reignition