I absolutely love my Bluestar 30" RNB range. Awesome workhorse. Probably the best appliance I have ever owned. Open burners are powerful and super easy to keep clean. Simmer performance and over fine-grained control is impressive. The RNB oven works fine and the big cavity is sometimes quite useful. Not many ovens fit a fullsize cookie sheet. I like baking with gas, but you'll hear different opinions on this. I am more hesitant about the Platinum series. I haven't tried it myself, but it does receive mixed reviews for it's oven.

The RNB range top is a great option as well, if you can provide space for a wall oven somewhere else.

The electric Bluestar wall oven regularly gets raving reviews. So, I'd definitely consider that as a possible option, if you need a full size electric oven.

After reading a ton of reviews, I decided on getting a Miele combination steam oven and a Miele speed oven in addition to our gas range. They are ordered, but the kitchen remodel is still underway. So, can't really tell you much about them; other than the fact that I feel strongly that a CSO should have a hardwired water line.

Effectively having three different ovens is probably overkill. Having two is awesome though. If we didn't already own the RNB and liked it so much, maybe I would have instead decided on the range top.

We too are getting a Subzero all-fridge and Perlick undercounter freezer. I feel really good about this combination.

We have a Miele dishwasher that we'll reuse and that I can't say enough good things about. We also have a Kitchenaid in the in-law unit, where we temporarily live during construction. It's a huge step down. Much harder to fit all the dishes in there. The interior organization is simply not as well-designed. And unless I place everything perfectly, I'll have to handwash a few dishes every single time. That simply doesn't happen with the Miele. So, personally, I'd always buy another Miele dishwasher for my everyday use. But for less-frequent use, the Kitchenaid is a fine choice. And it admittedly is much cheaper.

I love my Miele CSO- it is the very best thing in my kitchen. I also have Miele dishwasher and refrigerator, which perform flawlessly. The stainless on the Miele refrigerator is really excellent and stays clean as advertised- and the interior lighting and organization suit me very well. I have refrigerator/freezer though- 36", bottom freezer.

I think the Miele refrigerator is a bit less expensive than the SZ, so you may want to check it out in case it's a good place for you to save some money.

PS I am finally getting a Bluestar range later this summer. I can't wait. I have been a big Bluestar fan ever since coming to GW but it was never the right choice for the project at hand until now (I wound up with a Lacanche from PO in one house and induction in the other.) I will get a Miele CSO to go with it.

It's fun to read how everybody is different. I looked at the interior organization of the Miele refrigerator and just couldn't see me getting used to it. On the other hand, we decided to get a commercial True all-fridge for the garage. It's essentially just a rectangular stainless steel box with adjustable wire-rack shelves. I love it! So easy to organize. Why doesn't anybody do this for residential appliances.

YMMV. Go out to show rooms and look at what does and does not work for your household. Everybody has different requirements.

I am in the market for a garage freezer. I will check out the True. Thanks, M. Plain shelving is perfect.

True makes great appliances. No nonsense. Well designed. Built like a tank. And much cheaper than buying an all fridge or all freezer from brands such as Sub-Zero or Miele.

It's a little noisier. But not much so. Definitely not a problem in a garage.

Really the only downside is that you won't have any warranty when you install it in anything other than a restaurant. But that's a calculated risk. All the spare parts are available online. And they are built with easy serviceability in mind.

Great information! Thanks! I strongly considered Miele, but I'm worried about service in my area. I've heard their dishwasher, in particular, works incredibly well. If I never needed service I would probably be fine, but that seems like a big roll of the dice.

Good to hear another positive Bluestar review. I'm going to have to travel at least 4 hrs to test out a range, but on paper it's my favorite.

Jenn, do you use convection or standard bake for your cakes?

I currently just use the standard option. I wasn't that impressed with my current ovens' convection capabilities but it's something I'm looking for in at least 1 of my next ovens.

I'd never heard of Bluestar before I found this forum a few years back. My kitchen renovation got delayed for various reasons and glad it did, gave me a couple years to read here regularly, learn, rethink things and apply that learning, etc.

One of those new things was Bluestar, and now that I've had it functioning about a month I can say it lives up to the hype, and it gets A LOT of hype this forum. I have the 48" RNB with grill and 6 burners. Ovens are great, I find myself getting great use of each oven because they are different sizes, but I've spent most of my time on top doing stir fry dishes and searing meat.

I love the aesthetics too, that's actually what tilted me to BS vs the Capital. I read someone on here say that it seems some Bluestar owners have a near romantic relationship with their appliance. There is likely some truth in that.

Simple, powerful, workhorse of a cooking machine is the typical description and that has been my experience, I LOVE my Bluestar.

I'd at least want the rangetop in any house I live in for the rest of my life.

I bought a Miele fridge and have had nothing but problems with it. Service in my area is horrible. Apparently the temperature swing (27 on the top shelf 39 on the bottom shelf is within acceptable range). The icemaker in my freezer died in less than 2 years. Next time I'll go with SZ.

ETA: corrected for error in converting Celsius to Fahrenheit.

We just bought a Kitchenaid stainless steel interior and black exterior dishwasher that retails for the 700 range at Lowe's..........it is so quiet. The controls are on the top edge which I thought I might not like, but I only use the one hour cycle and rarely let the dishes dry.....hit cancel and drain to air dry....and we love it. We don't know it is running, except for the gurgle in the drain of the sink. It has the top tier 3rd rack for large flat utensils. It cleans the dishes extremely well. Still dealing with the old Frigidaire Gallery, top of the line frig and range. Not sure what to do about them. They work, just trying to figure out what to do. Neither have given us any trouble. I refuse to buy the 3 door units. They are a nightmare of computer crazy especially the Samsung and the GE brands others have shared. I want the most standard least 'unique' frig I can buy. I have had one Sears brand for 16 years and this Frig for 21 years....with ice and water in door/26.? cu ft. model... Top freezer w. ice maker. I will go traditional again, to get the larger freezer, but not sure about the other current features we have...pretty conservative when I start looking at those prices and all the electronics that do go out, that they want you to pay for. But that's just me. I just want it to run. I don't care if it doesn't sing and dance. LOL

Sorry, no experience with these brands, but if you want to bake bread, a "proof" temperature setting for the oven is really helpful.

sherri, that is horrible about your refrigerator. I am not suggesting you make yourself miserable pursuing this problem further, since I am sure yo have already wrestled with it plenty- but it is not an inexpensive refrigerator. Have the Miele corporate people told you this was acceptable? Please tell me it was just a lazy service person.

PS Perhaps you could start a thread and see if others here have had this problem and find out how it was resolved? I am so PO'd for you :-( Plus I always tell people how great my refrigerator is- and now I am not so comfortable saying that. Incoherent rant over.

Rita: thanks. I am still fighting with them, but it's taking a back seat to my DW which has been out of commission for over 6 weeks, but that's another story.

Sorry for the hijack.