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All is installed and looking and working great. Overall I am extremely happy with everything I have bought and everyone who has seen it, which includes a fair number of superyacht chefs, have been incredibly impressed.
Best points: without a doubt the quality of the cooking produced by the cooker. It is fast, uses very little gas in comparison not only to my old cooker but comparing consumption with friends on similar sized boats, where they go through the same sized gas canister in a week or two, mine is lasting an average of 6 weeks and that is using the cooker every day.
Next excellent point is the integration of the cookware with the sink. Genius. This has single handedly changed my life!! It feels like my very tiny galley is twice the size. The large sink has also made a huge difference. This summer myself and another crew member are pre preparing lunch for 14 crew for the classic racing yacht Rowdy in Cruinneags galley. That is a LOT of sandwiches, salad, meat and cheese. No problem.
All is well and we are enjoying cooking more than ever. It is a fantastic beast and does everything we had hoped as well as we had hoped. Plus, we are positively evangelical about GN Espace for their customer care – a shining example of how a customer can be turned round if you handle their complaint well enough.
We love our new stove and are extremely satisfied. We live aboard full time and use it every day. The performance is great, particularly the ability to run the stove burners on low heat.
We all love the electric igniter - much easier than our previous. Having the thermocouples on the stove burners makes me feel a lot safer. This is particularly true since our 13 year old loves to cook and has ADHD. Even though they are good about using the stove safely, I worry less now about them turning a burner on and having it supply gas while unlit. We do have the correct gas detection system active on the boat but this is an extra layer of safety. It’s very easy to use and clean.
I’d rate the product a solid 10/10. I couldn't be happier with my Levante 3 Burner. It's the best cooker on the market, offering exceptional build quality and outstanding cooking performance. In terms of functionality, efficiency, and ease of use, it has exceeded all expectations - it's simply great.
Customer service also deserves a 10/10 - very attentive, responsive, and helpful throughout the process. A truly impressive product backed by excellent support. Highly recommended!
I wanted to drop you a note about the galley stove I have installed aboard my Kraken 50. I took delivery from Kraken in April of 2022 and now have about 12 cumulative months living and cooking aboard. What a brilliant bit of kit you have produced. The build quality and performance of my Ocean Chef 3 Induction stove makes cooking a joy. So, this note is just a shout out to your team to say thanks for a great product and a job well done.
The burners are excellent and I really like the grill. This is a world away from the old one and a real oven is a great luxury.
I like the gastronorm containers too. Really nice and easy to clean, as is the cooker itself. Good food is an essential part of a good holiday on the water and I'm really looking forward to some proper cooking this season. Several of our friends have been aboard to admire the thing and I shall be happy to recommend both the product and the integrity of the company to anyone who asks!
We spent our first Christmas on the road travelling through Morocco. I purposely ditched all the gas in our expedition truck opting for a 3 redundancy all electrical system via a lithium 24v Victron system. Our primary electrical recharge being solar, secondly a buck boost from the alternator and thirdly if the sun doesn’t shine and we’re stationary not on shore power a generator.
I had limited space for an oven, being a 450 opening and was about to give up on the idea when I stumbled across your oven. Thank goodness I didn’t go with the convection microwave! Now 3 months full time I can feedback I am delighted with the oven and what it can do 👍
Great product and with the trend in overlanding to lose gas I wish you the utmost success for the coming years.
It's about time that I let you know how we have been getting on with the new shelves which you sent us!!! Absolutely wonderful!!! much better results.I have been able to cook my usual sponge cakes in a different sized tin without problems.
Also tried dual level cooking today Chicken pie on the top shelf turned upside down) and Pommes Dauphinois in the large blue dish on the bottom shelf. Pommes went in 1/2 hour before the pie and it was all done perfectly together!! sorry about the exclamations but it just shows how pleased I am after all this time. 6 dinner guests were also impressed. The main delay has been getting are placement gas can! they seem to have changed the size by a couple of centimetres and that is just a little too big for our gas locker(pooh) anyway now back in business and suitably satisfied.
Many thanks for your perseverance with me and all your help - You are a star!!
The galley game onboard Night Train has been stepped up with the new GN Espace Oceanchef induction cooker.
Cannot find any negatives to lose gas with regards to the hob - but a lot of positives (no flame being a huge one).
What comes to the oven, there was high expectations. Real fan assisted electric oven handling up to 250C. This one is really awesome! Heats up fast, minimal heat leakage (cool on the outside) - works as any high quality kitchen appliance. One of the first tests was a real gourmet one - frozen pizza. Getting the crust on one of these was a though one with a gas oven. This one was 12 minutes from freezer to table. And you can bake several at once 😃.
If you have the battery capacity this should be a no brainer.
The Levante cooker is now fully installed and working. It looks great and is a big improvement on our old model. Pan supports are much cleaner, the fiddles are neater and the glass door is a great help as it saves opening the door to check progress or simply to check the burner has lit. All the burners light within seconds, including the grill which was always a problem on our old cooker.
I've just baked a batch of scones. Absolutely perfect!
We recently installed our new Ocean Chef 3 cooker and are really enjoying it. It’s a great unit, so glad we purchased it. All boats should make the switch from propane to induction.
My wife sends her love to you. Not only does the oven now get hotter, the gas lasts twice as long, but it also lights instantly now too! We'd definitely buy your oven for our next boat and would recommend it to others. Your service has been great.
We find the unit a joy to use and are happy with the performance. The business-like / professional appearance is appreciated by us and everyone who sees it. Overall, our satisfaction with the product performance, features and workmanship is high. The use of catering trays is an improvement over racks and typical pans, especially while in motion.
The food that we provide our guests is very important to us at Topsail Adventures, so the choice of cooker to buy was one of the most important decisions that we had to make when outfitting Amelie Rose. We've used pretty much every boat cooker there is in our time sailing aboard other vessels and nothing has been capable of producing the quality home cooked food that we wanted to provide. Since installing our Levante we have cooked meals for up to 9 crew and have been able to achieve consistently the results that are important to us. The oven delivers an even heat - enough to crisp our puff pastry pies - and the grill can cope with a decent load of toast. In our experience there is no better marine cooker for anyone who is serious about cooking aboard.
The Levante 2 is a star. Living aboard our Malö 50 built 1973 your cooker didn't just improve our living. This is a new level of independence altogether.
The quality of your cooker, as well as the thought-through details are second to none. You and your team were exceptional hands on and forthcoming - we want to thank you for this.
Working as an attorney, in quite a specific setting and with a background as a chef, cooking is both joy and a tool to reach my clients. Your company as well as your cooker will be highly recommended throughout my sailing-buddies.
We are absolutely delighted with the performance, build quality, features and ease of use of the stove. Likewise, the support service we received has been excellent ranging from our first enquiry through to delivery abroad and resolving some minor post sales issues. In almost 50 years of yachting in all sorts of boats from 16ft to 60ft the GN Espace is by a very wide margin the best stove I have ever used and our research prior to buying it didn’t reveal any other stove that remotely matched the GN Espace for build quality. Whilst the entire stove is excellent, the grill feature is perhaps the most noteworthy. It is the first time we have owned a boat stove where the grill provides uniform heat across the entire grill pan area. Most boat stoves burn the food in the middle of the pan and leave that around the edges uncooked.
I am happy to confirm that my GN Espace cooker certainly fullfills my expectations. It is easy to use and really contributes to a nice atmosphere in the cooking department of my Hallberg-Rassy 64. Thank you!
Our new induction stove was installed today. At first glance and first use, it is unsurpassed. Everything works very correctly and is good quality. Previously, we had an induction from an Italian manufacturer (Twice there was a short circuit, and the oven did not heat up more than 170 degrees). We spend a lot of time on the boat (a Garcia 52), so safety is very important.
We are so pleased with our new cooker. It saved our bacon for the summer travels and we are now very happy. This cooker works very well, it's so much better than Taylor's (which used to be the bible of cookers). Sue finds the ability to remove the side rails extremely helpful when cooking with large pans. Very happy and thank you again.
Our new cooker is excellent, a huge improvement over the Force 10 gas appliance. But in all honesty the pricing does set expectations very high. It takes some getting used to as induction really responds quite differently than gas does. But the efficiency, especially the oven is so much better. Both in Amps and in total power consumption we manage well on batteries (700 Ah LiFePO @ 24 Volt and two inverters; 2500W for oven & 3500W for hob and rest of boat). Very easy to use after you get used to it. Cleaning is a huge, huge improvement over a gas hob. That may be the number one argument to move to induction. I hate cleaning the pot support rack and burners on a gas hob.
I’m very pleased with the design, appearance, and overall finish quality of the E106 Oceanchef - it’s a well-made, stylish appliance that looks fantastic onboard. Owing to an extended wait for it to be fitted, I have only used the cooker for a week or so. But it has quickly become apparent how very efficient it is compared to the gas cooker it has replaced: Cooking time has been halved. The oven quickly reaches the working temperature. The induction hob is new to me but I am impressed by its range of functions. It's clear this is a highly efficient and capable piece of equipment. I'd rate the product 9/10. As for service, I’d give it 8/10. I look forward to exploring the culinary possibilities it can offer in the future.
Overall we are very satisfied with our purchase. It has worked perfectly from the start and provided us with many great meals this season. The performance has been great. Especially the efficiency of the induction stove. The oven efficiency is still very good, but obviously takes a bit more energy to run. The design is beautiful. The option to link both cooking zones into one large zone came in handy once. The warming settings are also very useful.
We are now back from our six weeks on our boat, sailing and living aboard. I can therefore give you the full appraisal of our Levante cooker as promised when I was able to tell you that it had been successfully installed. Cleaning the hob is a doddle because of the very easy take-to-bits design of the rings and the one screw removal of the rails above them.
I can say, without hesitation that its function, its design, generally and in appearance, are all, in one word - excellent.
The Levante is as big a leap forward from our Force Ten as that was over the ENO that we had in our previous boat. One can use all four rings simultaneously with ease (though the rectangular "Boaty's Frypan" does help) even with all four rails in position. (We normally use the front and back ones only because the stainless steel covered wooden panels on either side are sufficiently high.)
Cleaning the hob is a doddle because of the very easy take-to-bits design of the rings and the one screw removal of the rails above them. The oven is also easily cleaned especially if, as your instructions say, one does it immediately after use. A slight snag here is that one is tempted to eat first! Amongst many other meals, we cooked a beautifully browned roast chicken and baked bread very satisfactorily three times. The grill is amazing. I have never been able to make toast so evenly and easily on any other gas cooker whether afloat or ashore.
Once used to the Gastronorm dishes and frames idea, one realises how good it is. I would say that it is better to have two rails and a shallow and a deep dish as we have. Also the swing function works well and the cooker seems to be correctly ballasted. Only once did its own period of swing coincide with the boat's roll to provide a bit of a dance. We were up against the stops once but that was due to the tight installation, not the cooker's design.
With all good wishes and congratulations and thanks for designing, making and marketing such an excellent product.