It may be adequate, it depends on how much and what you cook. My OTR MW is vented directly outside, it sits over my gas cooktop. I don't do a lot of high heat or grease splattering cooking, so the OTR MW is adequate. I had the same space constraints. I've had 5 OTR MW, and even when I was cooking for my family of 5, it was fine. I often use the MW when I cook, so it's handy to have it over the cooktop. Saves walking.

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.

Most abnormally loud fan noise is due to faulty installs---which comes under your installer's warranty, not the manufacturers. Your installer should have been there when the service rep came so they could put their heads together. Fixing the problem is his issue. If you can't get him back out to diagnose, then you may have to pay for another HVAC person to diagnose the issue.

The stainless will not be exactly the same, but it never is from appliance to appliance, even ones from the same manufacturer. However, stainless between two appliances will always be close enough to match provided one of them isn't a special version of stainless like "Smudge Proof" which is not the case here. You probably won't be able to notice the difference, especially once they're installed. This post was edited by hvtech42 on Sun, Feb 8, 15 at 8:52