Jenn-Air (part of the Whirlpool Group)
General Jenn-Air Information
Jenn-Air is a part of the Whirlpool group, but whether it and Whirlpool have much in common across their induction lines is unclear--they certainly all have different element layouts,
if nothing else. Though Whirlpool is now the #2 worldwide appliance giant, behind only Electrolux, it has--even across its bajillions of brand names--only a very few induction units out to
market--so far, anyway (whereas Electrolux, by contrast, has a great many). One report has it that Jenn-Air's guts are made by BSH (of Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, and other brands).
Whirlpool has apparently decided that the Jenn-air line will be marketed as their "upmarket" brand (as compared to more workaday Kitchenaid): Jenn-air stopped allowing retail prices to be posted on line, and more recently has put in place a territorial restriction such that dealers can only sell with a 150-mile radius (which means that we at The Induction Site can only sell within 150 miles of our supplier's location, which is Los Angeles). If you, like us, find such information and sales restrictions obnoxious, look into the Kitchenaid line, which parallels the Jenn-air product line at slightly lower cost.
Some time back, Jenn-Air had had some hybrid part-induction units on the market, but those disappeared some while ago. Jenn-Air has now re-entered the North American market with the
more or less standard full-induction cooktop pair, a 30- and a 36-inch unit (that is unlike the European fashion, in which companies offer numerous variations, with differing physical
arrangements of elements and differing distributions of total-unit power among those elements).
The Jenn-Air brand is also distributed in the U.K., but whether any Jenn-Air induction units are available there, we haven't yet discovered: but we're looking into it.
As always in these listings, we give these standard general--
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Important notes on these data:
We have spent a lot of time hunting these data--often in several places for each individual unit--but we cannot and do not guarantee any datum to be correct
(indeed, we often found conflicting data at different sources). Caveat emptor! For those units we offer for sale, the prices shown are never over an hour old. For other items, the prices shown are the lowest we found with moderate but not fanatic
searching; moreover, they are not updated very often and are only intended as a rough guide to comparative unit values in cost/power terms. Most "Features" are not terribly important, and are nearly standard among roughly similar units, regardless of brand name. If some "feature"--shown or omitted--is especially
important to you, check on it, because we did not take great pains over the "Features" data. Dimensions given here are, as the makers themselves warn, only to be used as guidelines in planning--never do anything (such as cutting a countertop) till you have your
actual unit to hand. A very important unit datum is the "MaxPower" value. Many units show individual-element powers that add up to impressive totals that the unit cannot really supply.
That is not a defect or some form of cheating: it is "power sharing", a clever and
useful feature; but, unless the maker is unusually open about data, one can easily be misled into believeing that the unit as a whole is more powerful than it is. Your dollars are buying
cooking power, and you need to be well aware of just what you are paying for in actual cost/power terms for the unit as a whole. Similar to power sharing (though less flexible) is the "power boost" feature many
units have on some or all of their elements. (That feature allows a "boosted" element to temporarily, for some short period--rarely specified, but typically 10 minutes or so--run at some
set level well over its nominal power, to help with tasks like getting large pots of water to boiling.) As with true power sharing, if one is not careful, one can get an incorrect
impression of the true total power capability of the unit as a whole, which, as we just said, is basically what your dollars are buying.
(For much fuller information on power, read our page Kitchen Electricity
101.)
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Jenn-Air Induction-Unit Data
We found 2 Jenn-Air models:
U.S. availability:
Jenn-Air JEI0430ADS
Do we sell it? Yes! - click on the unit name above for the "buy" page.
Jenn-Air JEI0430ADS
(maker's product page)
- Elements: 4
- Boosted: 4
- Powers:
· 1.8 kW (boost to ? kW) - left front, 7"
· 1.8 kW (boost to ? kW) - left back, 7"
· 1.4 kW (boost to ? kW) - right front, 6"
· 2.4 kW (boost to ? kW) - right back, 11"
- Max Power: 7.4 kW = 100%
- Levels: 17
- Controls: touchpad
- Timer/s: 1 ("alarm clock" - does not control any elements)
- Induction Elements Made By: Whirlpool?
- Features:
· residual-heat indicators
· keep-warm function
· pan-size detection
· pot recognition
- Size: 31" wide x 21-9/16" deep
- Cutout: 29-1/2" wide" x 20-1/2" deep x 3-1/4" under
- Color: black
- Trim: none
- Voltage: 240
- Load: 40 Amperes
- Maker's Warranty:
· parts & labor - limited 1-year
· elements, controls, seal, glass (from thermal shock only) - parts only, 5 years
- Online documents:
· Use & Care Guide (PDF file)
· Installation Instructions
(PDF file)
- Prices: Jenn-air does not allow posting of definite, known prices for their products.
- Cost/Kilowatt: c. $270
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Jenn-Air JEI0536ADS
Do we sell it? Yes! - click on the unit name above for the "buy" page.
Jenn-Air JEI0536ADS
(maker's product page)
- Elements: 5
- Boosted: 4
- Powers:
· 1.8 kW (boost to ? kW) - left front, 7"
· 1.8 kW (boost to ? kW) - left back, 7"
· 3.6 kW - center, 11"
· 2.2 kW (boost to ? kW) - right front, 8"
· 1.4 kW (boost to ? kW) - right back, 6"
- Max Power: 10.8 kW = 100%
- Levels: 17
- Controls: touchpad
- Timer/s: 1 ("alarm clock" - does not control any elements)
- Induction Elements Made By: Whirlpool?
- Features:
· residual-heat indicators
· keep-warm function
· pan-size detection
· pot recognition
- Size: 37" wide x 21-9/16" deep
- Cutout: 35-1/2" wide" x 21-9/16" deep x 3-1/4" under
- Color: black
- Trim: stainless steel
- Voltage: 240
- Load: 50 Amperes
- Maker's Warranty:
· parts & labor - limited 1-year
· elements, controls, seal, glass (from thermal shock only) - parts only, 5 years
- Online documents:
· Use & Care Guide (PDF file)
· Installation Instructions
(PDF file)
- Prices: Jenn-air does not allow posting of definite, known prices for their products.
- Cost/Kilowatt: c. $225
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