KCGS550ESS is one of the cooktop model numbers KitchenAid carried in the United States. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. The only dated record of it is a capture of KitchenAid’s US product site from September 2015.
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 KCGS550ESS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KCGS550ESS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A KCGS550ESS in use today is about a decade old, and the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs account for most of what it gets called out for. The KCGS550ESS is no longer made, so what can actually be obtained for it is the first thing looked at, not the last.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in September 2015
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KCGS550ESS00
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
- KitchenAid published an installation dimension guide for it
Most Common Issues on This Model
Touch controls that respond intermittently or not at all, where a touch panel is fitted
Continuous ignition clicking on a gas configuration, usually moisture or debris at the igniter
Blocked burner ports on a gas configuration, giving a yellow, uneven or lifting flame
A burner cap sitting out of position, which changes the flame pattern and the heat delivered