We bought entire suite of Viking Appliances 4 years ago. 36" dual fuel range replaced 3 times under warranty. Built in panal ready fridge replaced once. Built in dishwasher just had a pump replaced. Only 2 people live in the home. So glad I had extended warranty. Almost forgot the convection microwave replaced once and broke twice. I have no idea how reliable the other "premium brands" are. Appliances in the old kitchen were 25 years old still running.

So I'll update this, as we still haven't made a decision. Induction: I bought an induction burner and like it, although it isn't as life-changing as I sort of expected. (I realize the power is much lower than a range or cooktop would be.) We also had an electrician examine our house, and he thinks we can put one in. My dad (also an electrician) and husband agree we should do a max load test before we put 40 or more amps on the panel, though. (Long story short: we have a 200 amp breaker but 100 amps coming into the house, so we need to put in a smaller breaker.) So it's still a bit up in the air. Gas/dual-fuel: I went to look at the Aga Legacy today and really liked it. I'm also going to look at a Lacanche soon, at a Lacanche ambassador's house. Both of those are, frankly, more than I wanted to pay, but I really love the looks and some of the features a lot (ovens on the Aga, simmer plate and large burner on the Lacanche). I've also considered a BlueStar or Big Chill Pro Style (rebadged BlueStar), but there isn't one local to me. The price, features, and availability of the color finish are good, but I'm a little nervous about all the issues people have had. I think I've looked at nearly every option out there, but I'd love to hear more if anyone has ideas!

I purchased a wolf dual fuel 48" 9 months ago and after several service calls, Wolf did a buy back on the range. It was kind of strange, I would have been ok with another range but they did not want to switch it out. They were very nice, tried to service it but never really looks at the internals, instead would send a chef out here to cook in it and troubleshoot it. My issue was mainly the convection. Cook on one rack, no issues, cook on all of them like cookies and extremely uneven cooking from top to bottom and back to front. Not satisfied. Hated the lack of rolling racks, I find the racks hard to pull out. Had the double griddle. Fantastic to cook on but the grease catcher does not catch grease, instead it fills up, overflows underneath and makes quite the mess, even when the catcher is not full....they even mentioned that it is a design flaw. The actual service help after was good in most respects, would I buy another wolf? maybe some day, but not that range for sure. Also, took forever to heat up and boiling a pot of water took too long for such a beautiful unit. I am now purchasing a capital culinarian...hoping for much better results.....

I've had our CD FD only around a week - maybe a bit longer. Haven't hooked up the water/ice yet but will in next few days. Also got it at Lowe's on sale (ended up being 20% off) w/ dual ice as well. So far we're blown away by every feature. Love: how huge it is for being a CD; the amazingly efficient layout; the fold up shelf for when we have too many tall drink pitchers; the slide-out shelves; the handy deli drawer and its various settings as well as its divider; cool crispiness of everything (usually our spinach by now starts wilting just a tad); the dual ice areas; the LED light; the chiming for door being left open; the digital display and all the handy features there; the yes very awesome freezer handle; the freezer itself and the slide out upper tray and the small skinny tray thingie near the opening that holds smaller things like frozen meals, ice packs and frozen juice containers; the wine holder and pop cans holder (I actually don't use it for pop but instead keep big ziplocks filled w/ rainsins and nuts shoved in there - it holds those types of things well!); the fact that the milk stays cold in the door and that the door *could* technically hold up to 4 gallons of milk in the doors if you wanted it to; the fact that the doors hold all our condiments when I was so sure they wouldn't - and that's w/ the ice/water in door, too); the child lock (in in our case, also adult lock for a couple of wily friends); the way you can open one veggie drawer from opening only one door - on either side. Cant' do this w/ the deli drawer though but that's pretty quick/easy so it doesn't matter; the fact that the deli drawer gives SO much more space for extra veggies/fruit and because it's long and flat you can see it all easier - so it's a lot more handy than the traditional cheese/meat drawer that's too deep and not as access-friendly; the fact that the dairy tray is tall enough to take a couple layers of butter; and lastly...the fact that it's a gorgeous fridge. I shouldn't have shared any of this till I've had it longer and given it more time, so please take this into consideration. Also remember - I have to let you know how how well the ice/water in door (and in freezer) works after that's hooked up. One not of concern, though I'm not too worried yet: there's some frost in the freezer which I didn't expect. I haven't gone through the list of possibilities/possible causes yet (e.g. are air vents blocked or is temp at wrong setting or should I turn off energy-saver option which I HOPE is not the only solution) or is door not sealing properly due to tape I haven't removed yet or what have you...or did I leave door open too long when first turned on and loading already-melting frozen food, etc. Hopefully that will work itself out over the next few weeks. I'll let you know about that too. It's not a huge inconvenience but had better not stay this way.