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title: "Griddle and grill section service"
description: "DCS griddle and grill section service — the part of the range top that is not burners."
url: "https://dcsmiami.support/services/griddle-and-grill-section-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-14"
Appliance type: "cooktop, range"
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# DCS griddle and grill section service

### A plate holding temperature, not a burner heating a pot

The part of a cooking top that is not burners is asked to do something different, and it fails in ways burners do not. A plate that has warped so fat pools at one end, a thermostat that has lost contact with the steel it is bolted to and now reports the air instead, and a drain path underneath that nobody was told about and nobody has ever cleared. Owners describe all three as cooking unevenly, which is accurate and covers three different repairs. So the plate is measured for flatness and for temperature at several points, which shows the pooling in numbers before it shows in cooking.

What this involves

Uneven cooking on a plate is warp, sensor or grease — and they feel identical

The drain path under the section is the part nobody is told about

A warped plate is sometimes worth living with and we will say when

Measure the plate rather than the complaint

Flatness across it and temperature at several points once it is up. Pooling at one end is visible in the numbers before it is visible in cooking.

Check the sensing and the burner under it

A thermostat that has lost contact with the plate reports the air instead. It is a common failure and a cheap one, and it is regularly misdiagnosed as a warped plate.

Clear the path underneath

Whatever the section drains into, and the route to it. This is the hidden maintenance on an indoor grill section and it is the reason for at least some of the smoke people blame on the hood.

### Is a warped plate worth replacing?

A mild warp is frequently worth living with and we will say so. One that pools at an end is not — it changes how everything cooks and it puts fat where the drain cannot reach it — and that is the expensive outcome on this job.

### There is smoke even with the hood running.

Check what is under the section before blaming the hood. A drain path that has filled is producing smoke below the cooking surface, and a hood cannot extract what is burning inside the appliance.

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