I don't have a Miele but a Diva 36" on the short end of the "L" run. The short end edge to wall is 9 1/2'. I would vote for the 36" - I rarely use all five burners but having the extra room between burners is great. The Diva has a large burner in the middle which allows good working room between the zones. I wouldn't get hung up on the pot size - I'm always under a bit. In fact, I sometimes span two burners on the same zone, (not across zones), to make gravy. Also the burners not in use can easily be used as counter space even when you are cooking as the surrounding surface stays cool. The one thing you do need to consider is the size of the hood. Conventional hood speak advises you to over hang the hood a bit - so a 30" cooktop would take a 36" hood, a 36" cooktop would take a 42" hood. This presented a problem for me as I wanted a minimal look in a wall hood. The hood appearance I wanted was available in a Miele 36" or 48" NOT a 42". I ended up with the 36" Miele hood over my 36" Diva. The 42" would have been perfect but I just did not have the space for the 48" as I have shelves on either side of the hood. This works for me as I don't do a lot of frying. I will say the hood is quite loud. It is the one thing that I purchased solely for the form and not its function. In otherwords, looks ovr performance.

Just a note about my experiences re power sharing on induction cooking. On a 36" wide, there are 3 power sharing zones. On a 30" wide, there are 2 power sharing zones. Power sharing only comes into play when using the Boost feature. Boost is the extra heat above levels 1 through 9. You use boost to attain a boil but not to maintain a boil. Once the pot has the bubbles you want, turn the heat down to 7.5 or 8 or 8.5, whatever you like to keep the bubbles at the ferocity you want. It will boil over if you do not lower the heat. On my Bosch, 'boost' automatically will shut down after ten minutes but as a practical matter, I shut the boost off after it gets up to boil, to prevent a boil-over. You can have all five or four hobs at full power-at any heat level, except boost and not power share. I have been using my Bosch for 3.5 years now. Power sharing is something I read about but simply doesn't come into play. By the time I get the next pot ready to boil, putting water and food in, it's time to shut off the boost to prevent boil overs. To summarize, you can blaze every one of your hobs at the same time as long as boost is not engaged. Power sharing only applies to the boost feature. Use boost to attain a boil but not to maintain a boil. fini

Hi Barbara, I did have a blogger in Canada respond to me that she had this range and loved it. I decided not to get an induction range due to the EMFs.

I had wanted 6 hobs so it was easy for me to choose the 5 hob over the 4 hob. Last summer when I was canning with my 21 qt. stainless steel water bath canner I called Miele directly to ask if it was ok that the bottom of pan was about 1" larger than the hob outline and they said it was not a problem. I've never asked about the smaller pans. I have a 30" oven under the 36" cooktop so the cabinet maker adjusted the top drawer fronts on either side of the oven so you cannot tell they are reconfigured on the inside. I had posted pics last year but if you'd like to see them, it's no problem for me to post them again. What other appliances or cabinets/drawers are on your 9' counter/cabinet run? Are you considering not centering it over the 30" and aligning one edge and having the other edge 6" past the cabinet below? I definitely understand your statement about not getting "swept away" by the bigger size - so easy to do. But with Miele, at least in my experience thus far, you can't go wrong and in my case, bigger was better because I'm like cotehele and many times use all the burners.