Abstract: An electric cooktop appliance and a heating coil assembly therefor are provided. The heating coil assembly includes a sensor support assembly at which a thermostat is positioned. The sensor support assembly includes a shroud cover including a top wall and a sidewall extending downward from the top wall. The top wall includes an upper surface facing upward and a non-flat lower surface facing downward toward the thermostat. A spring bracket is configured to bias the shroud cover upwardly and includes a mounting plate and a biasing arm. The spring bracket forms a central recess at which the thermostat is positioned. The lower surface of the shroud cover forms a non-flat surface. The mounting plate of the spring bracket includes a contact portion corresponding to the non-flat surface at the lower surface of the shroud cover.

Abstract: A griddle assembly and a cooktop appliance having a gas burner are provided. The griddle assembly is positioned above the gas burner and configured to receive heat therefrom. The griddle assembly includes a frame at which a griddle is positioned. The griddle assembly includes a heat shield positioned adjacent to a bottom surface of the griddle. The heat shield is positioned over the gas burner and along a vertical direction between the bottom surface of the griddle and the gas burner.

Abstract: An oven appliance includes a cooking chamber positioned within a cabinet, a heating assembly defining a plurality of heating zones, and a drawer assembly slidably positioned within the cooking chamber. The drawer assembly includes a drawer frame slidably mounted to sidewalls of the cooking chamber, a horizontal rack mounted proximate a bottom of the drawer frame, and one or more vertical dividers positionable within the drawer frame to define a plurality of cooking chambers, each of the plurality of cooking chambers being aligned with one or more of the plurality of heating zones.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance defining a reference center and a radial direction extending from the reference center, a circumferential direction extending relative to the reference center, and a vertical direction extending orthogonal to the radial direction is provided. The cooktop appliance includes a ceramic-glass plate, a heating assembly positioned below the ceramic-glass plate, and a programmed magnet centered at the reference center. The programmed magnet is configured to generate a magnetic force along the radial direction.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance and a gas burner assembly are provided. The gas burner assembly is positioned at a top panel and includes an annular burner body positioned at a top surface of the top panel. The annular burner body forms a central combustion zone, a plurality of flame ports at the central combustion zone, and an annular mixing chamber upstream from the plurality of flame ports to permit a fuel-air mixture to flow into the central combustion zone through the plurality of flame ports. An annular burner base forms a bottom wall of the mixing chamber and an annular burner head forms a top wall of the mixing chamber. A puck including a domed projection separably positioned at the top surface of the top panel and extending toward the central combustion zone.

Abstract: A gas burner assembly includes a gas burner and a grate with a plurality of fingers positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers include a sensor finger. The gas burner assembly also includes a temperature sensor mounted to the sensor finger of the plurality of fingers of the grate. The temperature sensor is thermally isolated from the sensor finger.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance and a gas burner assembly are provided. The gas burner assembly includes an annular burner body forming a central combustion zone and a plurality of flame ports. An annular burner head is placeable onto the burner body to form a top wall of an annular mixing chamber upstream from the plurality of flame ports. A mixing tube extends along an axial direction and includes an inlet passage extending along the axial direction in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The mixing tube is configured to provide a flow of gaseous fuel to the mixing chamber. The burner head includes a tab extending along the axial direction into the mixing chamber. The tab is radially co-positioned to at least one flame port and the inlet passage.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance or heating element, as provided herein, may include a thermostat within the heating zone of the heating element. The thermostat may include a base and a top cap held on the base. The heat transfer disk may be joined to the thermostat at the top cap.

Abstract: An oven appliance includes a two or more cooking chambers positioned within a cabinet and a heating assembly for independently and selectively heating those chambers. A controller is configured to obtain a cooking time for each cooking chamber, determine preheat statuses for each chamber, and generate adjusted cooking times for each chamber based at least in part on their respective preheat statuses. The heating assembly then heats each cooking chamber for its adjusted cooking time such that the heating processes in all cooking chambers end simultaneously.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance and a gas burner assembly are provided. The gas burner assembly includes an annular burner body positioned at a top surface of a top panel of the cooktop appliance. The burner body forms a central combustion zone, a plurality of flame ports at the central combustion zone, and a mixing chamber upstream from the plurality of flame ports. A fuel manifold forms an outlet passage spaced apart from an inlet at the burner body such that gaseous fuel is flowable from the outlet passage at the fuel manifold into the mixing chamber through the inlet at the burner body, and such that air is entrained into the mixing chamber by the flow of gaseous fuel entering the mixing chamber through the inlet at the burner body.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance may include a top panel, a heating element, a temperature probe, a griddle plate, and a support post. The temperature probe may be attached to the top panel and be horizontally spaced apart from the heating element. The griddle plate may be selectively disposable in a griddle-cook position above the top panel along a vertical direction. The griddle plate may have a top cooking surface and a bottom heating surface. The top cooking surface may extend perpendicular to the vertical direction in the griddle-cook position to receive a cooking item thereon. The bottom heating surface may be disposed beneath the top cooking surface and face the top panel in the griddle-cook position to receive a thermal output from the heating element. The support post may extend downward from the griddle plate in conductive thermal communication with the temperature probe in the griddle-cook position.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance includes a panel with a burner disposed on the panel. A griddle plate is configured to be removably positioned over the burner. A hermetically sealed temperature sensor is embedded in the griddle plate. The temperature sensor includes a base, a probe extending from the base, a contact pad in the base, and a hermetic seal formed in the base.

Abstract: A gas cooktop includes a primary gas burner, an auxiliary gas burner positioned adjacent to the primary gas burner, a fuel supply system, a griddle positioned over the primary gas burner and the auxiliary gas burner, and a temperature probe configured for receipt within the griddle proximate the auxiliary gas burner. A controller is configured to initiate operation of the fuel supply system in the auto griddle mode where a flow of fuel is supplied to operate the primary gas burner and the auxiliary gas burner at a target heat level, obtain a griddle temperature of the griddle using the temperature probe, identify a heating failure based at least in part on the griddle temperature, and implement a responsive action in response to identifying the heating failure.

Abstract: A gas cooktop includes a gas burner for selectively generating a flow of heated air, a griddle defining a probe receptacle, a griddle magnet positioned within the probe receptacle, and a temperature sensor configured for receipt within the probe receptacle. The temperature sensor includes a sensor housing, a temperature probe positioned within the sensor housing and being movable between an extended position and a retracted position, and a probe magnet mounted to the sensor housing, the probe magnet engaging and utensil magnet to secure the temperature sensor such that the temperature probe engages the contact pin and is pushed into the retracted position.

Abstract: A gas cooktop includes a gas burner for selectively generating a flow of heated air, a griddle defining a probe receptacle, a griddle magnet positioned within the probe receptacle, and a temperature sensor configured for receipt within the probe receptacle. The temperature sensor includes a sensor housing, a temperature probe extending from the sensor housing, a probe switch positioned on the sensor housing, and a probe magnet positioned on the sensor housing, the probe magnet engaging and griddle magnet to secure the temperature sensor and trigger the probe switch when the temperature probe is installed in the probe receptacle.

Abstract: A gas cooktop defining includes a gas burner for selectively generating a flow of heated air, a grate positioned over the gas burner, and a griddle assembly seated on the grate over the gas burner, the griddle assembly comprising a griddle defining an outer side and a probe receptacle defined in the outer side, a temperature probe configured for receipt within the probe receptacle, and one or more flow control features for directing the flow of heated air around or away from the probe receptacle.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance may include a first gas heating element, a second gas heating element, a first supply valve, a second supply valve, a first supply valve, a second supply line, a first bypass line, a second bypass line, a supplemental valve, and a controller. The first supply line may extend between a first supply valve and the first gas heating element. The second supply line may extend between the second supply valve and the second gas heating element. The first bypass line may extend between the first supply line and the first supply valve at a first bypass outlet. The second bypass line may extend between the second supply line and the second supply valve at a second bypass outlet. The supplemental valve may be provided on the first bypass line.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance defines a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction. The vertical direction, the lateral direction, and the transverse direction are mutually perpendicular. The cooktop appliance includes a top panel with a gas burner disposed on the top panel. A terminal block is positioned on the top panel adjacent to the burner. The cooktop appliance also includes a grate with a plurality of fingers removably positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers include a sensor finger. A temperature sensor is rotatably mounted to the sensor finger of the plurality of fingers of the grate whereby the temperature sensor is movable along the vertical direction between an elevated position and a lowered position.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance includes a top panel with a gas burner disposed on the top panel. The cooktop appliance also includes a grate with a plurality of fingers. The grate is removably positioned above the gas burner. The plurality of fingers includes a sensor finger. The cooktop appliance also includes a temperature sensor extending from the top panel adjacent to the gas burner. The temperature sensor is positioned outside of a footprint of the gas burner. The cooktop appliance further includes a thermally conductive probe extending from the temperature sensor to the sensor finger above the gas burner.

Abstract: A cooktop appliance includes a first heating element; a second heating element adjacent to the first heating element; a first supply line in upstream fluid communication with the first heating element to direct fuel thereto; a second supply line in upstream fluid communication with the second heating element to direct fuel thereto, the second supply line being in fluid parallel with the first supply line; a first supply valve provided on the first supply line upstream from the first heating element; a second supply valve provided on the second supply line; a supplemental line providing fluid connection from the first supply valve to each of the first supply line and the second supply line; a supplemental line valve provided on the supplemental line; and a controller operably coupled with the supplemental line valve, the controller being configured to selectively open the supplemental line valve.