The KGCS105GSS is a KitchenAid cooktop sold in the United States. 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. It sat in KitchenAid’s US catalogue from December 2001 until May 2006, which is the window the archive records.
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 KGCS105GSS06, KGCS105GSS08, KGCS105GSS11. A plate reading one of those is still a KGCS105GSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A KGCS105GSS still in a kitchen today has twenty-odd years behind it, and that age shows first in the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs. Discontinued does not mean unrepairable, but it does mean availability of the specific part for a KGCS105GSS is established before any figure is put on the job.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from December 2001 to May 2006
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KGCS105GSS06, KGCS105GSS08, KGCS105GSS11
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
An infinite switch failed closed, so the zone runs at full heat regardless of where the knob is set
Cracked or chipped ceramic glass, which takes the cooktop out of service until the glass is dealt with
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