Abstract: Apparatus for supporting electric range heating elements below a smooth cooking surface, including a lightweight wire frame formed with at least a pair of resilient wire members for capturing and resiliently maintaining a heating element between the wire members and the bottom of the cooking surface. A pair of resilient wire members each comprising an undulating wireform extends across the wire frame with at least one heating element being captured and maintained in position between the cooking surface and the pair of undulating wireform members. A plurality of clips lockingly engage the conventional range top frame with another clip end engaging the lightweight wire frame to form an assembly of the range top frame, the cooking surface and the lightweight wire frame with the heating elements captured between the wire frame and the cooking surface. In another embodiment, the wire frame extending around the perimeter of the cooking surface comprises an undulating wireform.