I've had a Lacanche Sully for two years and love it. I have one gas oven and one electric. I use the gas oven almost every night; I brown meat on stovetop then transfer to oven. Works beautifully. I use the electric for baking (although i bake much less frequently). I do rotate my pans when baking cookies. Don't for cakes, though. Round pans must let more air circulate and bake more evenly. Maybe convection option is better for bakers. I wanted a gas oven for roasting, and also wanted an electric oven with broiler, so no room for convection. As for racks, it's true they definitely don't glide! But I find that as long as I don't push them too far back, they're pretty easy to pull and push. It doesn't bug me, although racks that really glide would be very nice. But I have heard that most oven racks tend to get gunked up and stop gliding over time. Don't know if this is true. I do like my french top very much, especially in the winter when I like to do lots of stews, braises, and use my tagine (my latest obsession). When I'm doing a big dinner it's nice to keep things warm on the corners, or toast nuts without worry (heat is much more forgiving). All in all, very very happy with my range. My dishwashers are another story!

I have a range (NXR 30") that uses the exact same burners as the Wolf. I personally have no problems at all with it, but then again the smallest pot I own is 10", everything else is 11"-14" including the Wok. Plus a large 14X24" Steel Griddle. So I don't have any problem with the larger diameter of the burners and I love having all burners the same where I can have all 4 full blast at 15,000BTU or all 4 at super low simmer and everything in between. As for not being able to "Simmer a pot of sauce" with the Wolf burners that is complete nonsense. I am right now as I type simmering a LARGE pot of Sketti sauce on high simmer. It is in a Swiss Diamond 8 1/2 Qt pot and its at least 2/3rds full. But there is a high simmer and a low simmer. The super low simmer is obviously not for doing a very large pot of sauce, its meant for doing something like keeping mash potatoes warm, or holding an emulsion like hollandaise or a beurre blanc, or melting chocolate and it does so perfectly. That is what is so sweet about these burners is the ability of that super low (melt chocolate on a paper plate low flame)plus the slightly higher simmer that is for large pots of sauce. The high simmer as you can tell works just fine, in fact perfect for simmering a LARGE pot of sauce all day. You can see at least 3 sauce volcanoes coming up in my sauce here, (although a couple are just bubbles that might be hard to make out unless you know where to look) simmers perfectly, any more and it would burn. (Just ran back down to stir it and taste and had 4 bubbling volcanoes going) So obviously Consumer Reports is clueless in that respect. If you have and prefer to use tiny pots then yes you should get something like a Capital Culinarian as those burners would fit you small pot needs better. This is the high simmer with about 5Qts of sketti sauce simmering away just fine right now.

Please check on Thermador customer service reviews. I contacted them several times trying to figure out which part numbers I'd need for an ng to lp conversion and was not pleased with their customer service, at all. That's been a few years ago, so it's possible things have changed.

Thank you all for the additional information. The main problem I'm having is I have to decide ASAP since the cabinetmaker will not start until I nail this down - he's supposed to start Monday and we're already 8 days behind schedule. The original plan was the Viking+Electrolux, and wiring has been done already. My original original plan was a cooktop + double ovens, but that didn't work out since there was no other place for the MW. So it was suggested to put the second oven under the cooktop. I convinced myself this was better in case either broke, I could replace each easier/cheaper - this may not be true. A couple days ago I thought, why not a Wolf range (since I was revisiting the whole thing) --- but with them being so expensive, and having to redo electrical --- I thought maybe it's easier just to go with the original plan. I'm glad you sent the info on the Bertazzoni since it looks like that cooktop would actually work with my oven -- I was worried I'd be limited since the Wolf cooktop plus some others will NOT work above the Electrolux oven. So I do have some options there if I need to replace.... Thanks again!