Current production, from 2013
GR304
- Width
- 30 inch
- On the top
- Four sealed burners
- Underneath
- Gas convection oven
Wolf GR304 not lighting, or not simmering?
Two different answers, and the knob tells you which one you have. A burner that clicks without catching is nearly always damp or wearing its cap a shade proud; a low setting that still rolls a pan has usually never been pushed through into the simmer travel. Neither of those is a part. Describe yours to Wolf Repair Denver on (720) 575-1433 and we will say which it is.
- The opened burner. On a narrow top the burners sit close, so a wide pan shades the one beside it.
- The fan cover. On a range this size the cavity is one box and that disc is the whole of the airflow.
Thirty inches is what a kitchen already has. That is the whole reason this body exists, and the reason it turns up in LoDo lofts and Berkeley bungalows where anything wider would mean moving a wall, a run of cabinets and a gas line with it.
What you trade for the fit is elbow room on top, and that is where the GR304 parts company with its wider relatives. Four burners across thirty inches sit close together. A stockpot that looks unremarkable on a forty-eight covers a quarter of this deck, and the burner next to it takes the steam, the spitting fat and whatever goes over the side.
Underneath there is one cavity and nothing else: no module on the top, no second oven, no thermostat anywhere but the oven’s own. It is the least complicated range Wolf makes in gas, which is worth remembering on the day it misbehaves.
What it usually turns out to be
Every figure below is a band, not a quote. The fault is found first, the number is agreed with you second, and nothing is ordered until you have said yes to it.
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A burner ticks whenever the stockpot is over the one beside it
UsuallyPot and pan size sits on Wolf's own list of reasons a burner clicks, and thirty inches puts every pan within reach of its neighbour. Shift the big one to a back position, or use something smaller, and see whether the ticking stops with it.
What it costs Nothing, once that check is done
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One burner is slow to catch since the caps were washed
UsuallyFour caps look alike and rarely go home where they came from. Wolf asks for each one centred and seated flatly on its own burner, so take all four off, match them to the seats they fit and put them down square.
What it costs Nothing, once that check is done
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Still clicking when everything is dry and clean
UsuallyThen it is the spark path itself. Wolf names the electrode, the switch and the spark module in one breath as the hardware behind a burner that will not light, and on a top this size they are read one at a time.
Quoted from Igniter or spark module $180–$470
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The bottom notch will not hold a pan of stock below a boil
UsuallySimmer is not the end of the same sweep. Reach the stop, press the knob in, carry on round, and the flame drops onto the lower tier of ports in the cap. Where that is already being done properly, the valve is what gets measured.
Quoted from Burner valve or orifice service $240–$610
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The back-left burner has never boiled as quickly as the rest
UsuallyIt is the small one. Wolf rates the rear left at 9,200 Btu against 15,000 for the others, so on a four-burner top a quarter of the deck is deliberately gentler. Give it the pan you want held steady, not the one you want racing.
What it costs Nothing — the range is behaving as built
Still wondering
Is the GR304 the only 30-inch gas range Wolf builds?
In the current line, yes. Wolf's timeline lists twelve gas bodies in production since 2013 and exactly one of them is thirty inches across. The retired R series had a narrow body too, the R304, which is a different range with its identification plate hidden somewhere else entirely.
Why does the broiler scorch one end of the tray?
Because it is infrared and Wolf tells you not to preheat it. The moment it lights it is searing whatever is nearest, so rack height does the work a timer would do in another oven. Broil with the door shut, on the two-piece pan supplied with the range.
What is worth having ready before I ring about one?
The code off the plate at the bottom right of the control panel, which burner or which knob is misbehaving, and whether it began after a spill, a clean or building work. Give Wolf Repair Denver that on (720) 575-1433 and the likely part travels with the visit.
