To the extent of the rangetop, I can help a little. I'm a nerd by trade, so I tell people more than they probably wanted to know. I don't know what's important to you so I just spit it all out. I have a Distinctive 30" range. The Distinctive range top uses the same burners, the Discovery is slightly different. Not a lot of anything for child proofing rangetops. Something like knob covers won't work because of the small hoods around the knobs. A child could turn a knob - it takes no effort at all but the knob must be pushed in before being able to turn when the burner is off. I also would make you aware that there is no bullnose on the Distinctive unit. A bullnose would make it harder for little hands to get to pot handles. As I understand the child safety issue, THAT is by far the more prevalent accident. There is a small bullnose available for the discovery unit but contrast it to the set back of the burners on other makes. Dacor's simmer markings can be misleading. I found that a simmer (bubbles breaking surface every once in a while) was unobtainable on the 15k burners. I could get a nice low boil that would be very even across the bottom of the pan, but not a simmer. The low boil is also useful to me but its not a simmer. On the 10k, sometimes it'll be ok and sometimes not. Small cookware is another boil - larger, heavier cookware produces a simmer. The 18k burners are a little odd in that they will sear (above 8" cookware) and they will simmer using the small center ring. The 18k will do a fine job with a flat bottom wok. Haven't tried a round bottomed one. What the 18ks don't have is "low" where the entire burner turns down. When reducing the heat, the entire outside ring turns down and then the inner ring turns down. If you're looking for "low" or the low boil setting on this burner with the entire pan surface still engaged, it's just not possible. You have to move the pan. I still sometimes use a flat plate that I got free with an induction burner. Just a 3/8" flat lump of metal on a handle. It spreads the heat outward from the small center burner ring and does a great job cooking tortillas. You may find that you want a heat diffuser or a traditional simmer plate. I did not buy the one from dacor, I bought one from Eurostoves and I really like it. It allows simmer at any level from one bubble burst per second up to that place right below boil on the 10k and 15k burners - using any cookware. It's the large one from Ilsa. I have not had the opportunity to try it on the 18k burner yet. The other thing that looks odd, but works is having two 15k burners stacked front to back. If you use a griddle, that's the place to put it. I didn't get Dacor's (it looks lovely but pricey for us). I got the Chef's Design Maxigrill. While it doesn't do high heat cooking, it does do everything breakfast and lunch. We find the burner indicator lights to be useful - sometimes the sun washes out low flames. The grates are great with good tine spacing, heavy but easy to pick up. The SmartFlame blather actually works - your kitchen will be cooler using Dacor's system. The porcelain spill basin under the burners is easy to clean - I use water or a very little diluted pine sol. It's one big piece, so not a lot of edges to capture dirt. Doing diluted pine sol with a miracle cloth produces sparkly clean. The burner caps are porcelained with a pretty good camo-color, you could likely never wash them and no one would know. I've boiled over my share of things and nothing has been stuck on past using a non-scrubby sponge. The burner heads are aluminum - slight bummer there as they can't go into the dishwasher or be scrubbed with a scrubby sponge. Good luck with choosing. This post was edited by bmorepanic on Sun, Mar 2, 14 at 8:29

i will weigh in on this at a later date-- so don't want to flame dacor too hard yet. we chose dacor for our remodel (just finished-- mostly) because it is american made and because it got good reviews. got the RGC365 renaissance gas model. has not worked since day one. company sent repairperson. repairperson said could not fix. company insisted on sending part. repairperson still could not fix. waited a week for approval of new cooktop. approved. "can't send for 6 weeks." that was 3 weeks ago. called yesterday. "can't send for at least 6 weeks." that's the short version-- happy they are replacing it. very, very unhappy that we have had no cooktop since remodel started early june-- and will have none until november sometime. if they are being honest. i would check on the availability of models through dacor before ordering. will post again when this all ends. kawh

Amazing, just today I am looking to replace my 20 year old 36" Thermador Professional Gas cooktop with a new one! I have been very happy with the cooktop but about 6 months ago one of the burners stopped working. It will come on sporadically but it causes two of the other burners to spark. The part that is broken is no longer available. I have to replace with the same model because of the cut out -- the kitchen was built to accommodate that model.

I really like the look of the black modernist rangetops, but honestly don't trust Samsung quality after the Ice maker mess with our fridge. In case someone doesn't know, Samsung bought Dacor awhile back. Does anyone have one of these ranges? Wish wolf offered DLC finish.