Hope this helps A French Top is a fairly popular commercial cooking set-up, but until recently was not seen in home appliances. Now, there are a few companies offering it, although you never know how similar it will be to an actual commercial version. A French Top is typically a 24″ x 24″ area on the range top that is made from a heavy flat smooth steel plate with a high powered gas burner located in the center, but underneath the surface. (similar to the way a teppan-yaki griddle is made) The top also has a couple of unique features. Usually a 8″ to 9″ round plate section directly over the burner is removable. Then there could be 1 to 3 additional ring plates that, if removed, would enlarge the central opening. The idea of the French Top is that when all the plates are in place, you have a flat surface to move cookware around on, with high heat in the center gradually cooling off as you move further away. This can be great for controlling temperatures in several pans all together on o