La Cornue is a little beyond my experience. I’ve cooked on my cousin’s CornueFé once, and hers is a gas range with classic five burner configuration. I never used the power burner. It was wonderful cooking on something so beautiful, but I can’t say it was different from any other gas range. While you want to be able to sear a steak, much of the art of cooking is in the lower temp range, not the higher. While I’ve not used LC induction, my guess is that it will boil water just as quickly as a high power gas burner, and that you’ll also be able to melt chocolate on it without a bain-marie. When you say large stock pots, are they larger than traditional burners can accommodate? Will you have a French Top?

" Because all you non pros say it's ok, then that must mean it's ok? As opposed to listening to the Pros on this forum or doing your own research by asking in the appliance forum?" Wait, what makes someone a non pro vs one of the "Pros on this forum" and is that different from having PRO under your picture? Only one person with PRO under their picture has answered here. It is actually their "pros" telling them it is OK. Are you saying that "non pros" giving their subjective opinion is somehow invalid? Are you saying if you are a "Pro on this forum", whatever that means, your word is infallible? I think no matter who you profess to be, you have to make a case for what you are saying. If I were doing this now, I would have a few questions myself. It's a lot of money especially if you have to install makeup air. There are a lot of ways to calculate how much ventilation is needed but how are these ways and numbers validated? I think this is the thread mentioned above that has the comments by kaseki(no PRO under his picture). He references certain people that have worked in this field. https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5161173/hood-faq#n=21 "Any ventilation hood over 400 CFM requires MUA. Your locally adopted amendments to code can be stricter, but not more lenient." Some codes, ours in particular, call for it at 600 CFM, so you really have to see if it is required in your location and what the requirements are. This is our code. Not everyone needs the motorized version. I don't think makeup air was required when I put my fan in, at least none of the inspectors said anything. I have not had any issues anywhere or blow back from the wood stove. We have a lot of open areas in our house. I do think I have naturally supplied makeup air with a gravity damper. ;-)) It is also close to the furnace. We went to a restaurant recently with no makeup air and a giant hood. I could not pull the door open, until my husband pulled on it too and we broke the suction. Not good!

Even on a 30-y-o unit, a La Cornue should have electric ignition like our Lacanche ranges (another post on Houzz on a 1990 unit refers to this). Press the knob or a separate switch, and you get a spark at each burner. If that's the case, and this one needs to be ignited manually, then the ignition module is defective (not very expensive part and likely easy to replace before the stove is installed again) Otherwise, if "the propane must be hand lit" means that you have to reach for the matches or BBQ igniter every time you want to start a burner or the gas oven, it's definitely something to be aware of, and for you to decide if the low price / wow factor is worth it. All the best! Patrick

I’ve got a La Cornue hanging out in my barn in Maine waiting to be installed. One of the reasons I bought it is that any good plumber or stove repair person can work on it if there is a problem (I deliberately picked a low fi range as I’m in a rural area), and that parts are easy to get online. They also have regional sales people that are highly responsive. I spent about 6 months researching potential problems and repairs before pulling the trigger. If it’s been tested and shown to be in good working order, I’d feel pretty safe making that purchase.