I too was impressed with the value of the Five Star. One thing that convinced me not to buy it was that it required the layout of four burners and a reversible griddle/grill in the center. I would rather have six burners. I am also not sure if the griddle/ grill has enough btu's to get the job done. Lastly, I have heard concerns that reversible griddle/ grills can be a bear to keep clean (although I think an additional reversible plate can be purchased for $275 and then one can be used for a grill, one for a griddle. One really nice thing about the Five Star 48" range is that one oven is gas and the other is electric.

Five star is only self cleaning if you get the electric oven- the gas oven is manual clean and has a lower broiler- the broiler and oven of the gas oven wither the small or large- is lower btus than the bluestar- Bluestar is open burner Five- closed burner- see my similar question called 22 Btu vs 21 btu

Also, in regard to the hot oven door on a BS, it's pretty relative. I caught my 4 yo sitting on the floor w/his back against the oven 'warming up' while it was on ~400 deg. It's hot but no hotter than the bottom panel of my Wolf 30" wall oven while it's running, in fact, that oven has surprised me in regard to the 'hot' panels as I've never heard 1 complaint about a Wolf oven door (or panel) getting hot. To me neither are 'too' hot.

Sorry, just took a look at this thread again and noticed your question...by the time I got to Miele, I had decided on induction, so I didn't give the Miele an actual test drive. I did give it a pretty thorough inspection at the Miele place, though, and thought it was a very sexy range -- and the performance seemed very similar to the Wolf dual fuel. I say that b/c the Miele also has the stacked burners, which I really liked, but the BTUs are higher than Wolf (which top out at around 16k, I believe -- Miele was closer to 20k or so -- I can't quite remember). The Miele ovens on the 48" range were very nice -- the smaller one is a speed oven, and the bigger one is a regular convection. The speed oven wasn't a big plus for me personally, since I really wanted a steam oven as a second oven, but there are people on this forum who love their speed ovens. One thing I really liked about the Miele oven, which Wolf doesn't have, is the burst of steam option, which is great for baking (you can program up to 3 bursts of steam for up to 6 min. each during cooking). I didn't care that much about the MasterChef options on Miele, but again, others love these. At any rate, the Miele seemed very similar to the Wolf, I liked the steam option on the oven better and liked the Miele burners better (also, if you're interested in a grill, theirs was excellent and seemed very similar to the Wolf, which I think is the best in the business). If I had stuck with a range, I would have been very tempted by the Miele.