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.

Jeri, Since I am only interested in Dual Fuel (Gas on top, electric for oven), I am not familar with Gas only configuration and how their convection oven is constructed. All I know is a true convection oven within a Dual Fuel range is suppose to have 3 elements, including the circular element surrounding the convection fan. I guess this is why you need 240V for a Dual Fuel range since the power demand is higher than an all gas range. I compared this to Bosch which called their true convection oven, European Convection. The Bosch Dual Fuel range also has a third element surrounding the convection fan. I hope this helps.

I was pretty set on the Elux DF but my trusted appliance guy told me he would recommend the GE 10 out 10 times (this is for the monogram, not the cafe). I went with the GE, but haven't used it yet. :/ Looks nice though and has the roll out racks.

Hey bb, I have the dual fuel and love it. But I would never attempt to bake or roast in the bottom drawer. I mostly use that to keep things warm or cook frozen food. For example, that's where I cook boxed appetizers and that sort of thing if it needs to be on a different temp than what I am cooking in the main oven. The bottom drawer takes a long time to heat up, and is so close to the floor I worry that it's not too safe to have it at a high temperature for a very long time. Be sure and give it 20 minutes to preheat that bottom drawer. The main oven, however is is very responsive. The main oven is great, I love the size. No problem fitting a turkey and some of the sides, The convection roast is powerful. The thermometer probe is easy to use and fail-proof. I love to bake and use the convection bake often, no more having to switch out cookie trays. everything seems to brown evenly. My old oven was not convection, and I'd have to switch the top sheet to the bottom to keep all the cookies baking evenly, and that always cooled the oven down. I have not used the middle burner much, but fyi that does not get a very high flame, so it is of limited use. All that being said, I definitely recommend it. I would get it again. I have had it for about 4 years and had a hard time finding a 30" I liked. It was recommended to me by a chef who had a small home kitchen. I'm remodeling now and am considering keeping this since I don't really have that much space on my oven wall. I like it that much. Hope this helps! Enjoy the new house :)