Regardless of which brand you buy, its really a good idea to be certain that local service will be available for it, both during the initial warranty and after. Depending on where you live, this may limit your brand options. Although I was far luckier than warmfridge with the same range (built a month or so later), I agree that local service availability is a necessity. Beyond that, I think most everyone here who has cooked with both induction and regular electric (or gas for that matter) would prefer induction. So if you can find someone to service it, I'd certainly recommend an induction range over an electric one. Lots of posts here about this.

I went with the Profile double-oven gas: here are my reasons. I like the smaller-size top oven for daily use, and the lower oven will only be used on occasion, so I'm ok with its location. (There's no room for a wall oven in my tiny kitchen -- and I have no plans to tear out cabinets and rearrange.) I'm a good cook, and I honed my skills on low-end domestic ranges because that's what was available: I don't need a commercial range to cook what I like, and I'm too busy with other aspects of my life to change my cooking style now. I also prefer not to deal with "pro" level BTUS and the ventilation complications they might add. I also am not willing to give up self-cleaning ovens -- which puts many pro-style ranges out of contention. I liked the slide-in setup and the angled control-knob location on the Profile, so that, and the price advantage, led me to choose it over the Cafe. Re: price, I bought mine from a local dealer, and I got the price down a bit by asking them to meet the ajmadison.com price. They didn't quite get there, but I was willing to pay a little extra for local sales/delivery/service reliability. Everyone's situation is a little different, but I found that the Profile slide-in fits best with my kitchen and the way I use it.

andiswife-I have a GE Cafe dual fuel range, and I love it. It has a huge oven and I have not had any problems with any of the burners. Yes, there is an oven fan that comes on, but to me anyway, it not that annoying, and it has never blown out the back burners. This range also sat in my garage for over 1 year before it was installed and it has always worked perfectly. I love the power boil and it simmers and I truly mean simmers. The thing with the griddle is that to use the griddle, you have to take off the grate. I tried to cook on the griddle with the grate on and I did take forever and did not heat up very well, but once I read the owners manual and it said to take off the grate, it was perfect. I have seen on this forum and on the kitchen forum complaints and boasting about every appliance manufacturer, so I guess you should just take everything with a grain of salt. Yes, I would buy a GE Cafe range again. I also purchased the GE Cafe vent hood, and I must say it is very quiet on low and med low. Does start to get loud on med hi and hi. Just my opinion.

I just bout a Cafe gas range, they are replacing it Monday, as it came damaged. With scratches. Also Mine has the vent your speaking of, however I do believe they left a part off on the inside of the vent at the left side.  In comparison to the right side there appears to be a part missing and I can actually see some white material showing?? It looks like cotton type of insulation maybe? They are picking this one up Monday morning.   I'm going this weekend to look at one, in the appliance store and see if the back looks the same as mine.