The KCGS356ESS is one of the KitchenAid cooktops. No published specification for this model was recovered. What survives is the model number and a dated record of when KitchenAid was showing it, and that is what is set out here. KitchenAid was still listing it on its US product site at the September 2025 capture, so this is a current model rather than an out-of-production one.
KitchenAid appends a two-digit production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KCGS356ESS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KCGS356ESS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. That puts a KCGS356ESS roughly ten to fifteen years into service, the point at which the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs tend to need attention. Because the KCGS356ESS is still a current model, parts supply is straightforward, though we confirm the specific component before quoting rather than after.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Still recorded on KitchenAid's US product site at the September 2025 capture
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KCGS356ESS00
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Wiring damage under the cooktop from years of heat cycling
Control knobs and their shafts worn, so the setting no longer matches the mark on the panel
A thermal limiter cutting a zone early because the glass beneath it is running hot
An induction zone that refuses to recognise a pan, where an induction surface is fitted