Electrolux comes in a free standing and a slide in/built in style....only the slide in/built in one has the lip. I LOVE my Wave touch all electric range (dont have gas to my house) however....I got a lemon and have been having problems with the electronics that they have not yet been able to fix. They finally found a board with a burned out section so hopefully we are finally there....But I love the configuration, cooks fabulously...love the pull out shelves so much easier to baste the turkey....love the cooking options....Just dont love the repairman visits. However, I would take another chance on it because it is so great other than this issue...and I think it is just a lemon.

I think there are pros and cons to both solutions. I really like having the fan to pull out the smoke and smell from the oven under the cooktop in my pro style range. If you can afford the space and money, I would put in the second wall oven. In order to use the wall oven well, you need to have a good landing area. I really like the cooktop as a landing area and often wall ovens do not fuction well because of the poorly designed landing area. Therefore, you have to have sufficient landing space next to the oven, which many of my friends' kitchens lack. For some people, turning around from the wall oven to land the hot stuff is an absolute no no. (in a household with little kids and dogs/pets, I would definitely agree with that NO.) Also, turning around with heavy hot stuff may put more strain on "old body" than lifting heavy stuff to put on the stove top. I would experiment with your own body's needs. Do you have trouble bending down? Do you have problems with your shoulders? (as I am getting older, I am meeting more people with frozen shoulders than bad back...) Do you have knee issues? Since you are not building for a generic population but for yourself, you can tailor the kitchen for your own needs. Another thing about putting in a wall oven is that you have to pay particular attention to the height. I think it is quite dangerous to mount wall ovens too high. You cannot manage heavy hot things when they are too high. Because of this, often the top oven of the double oven is ideally mounted and the bottom oven is at the level where range oven would have been anyrate.... So... If I was in the market for two ovens, I would put a free standing gas range with gas oven and a wall electric oven on the wall. Then, you have the best of both world.

I had a kitchen aid which was not gas, had so many service calls. Electric control panel went out, twice. Burner went out. And on and on. At one point I was debating whether to sink any more money into it, as I was facing a 2nd over $700 repair. I complained to the service rep that it was only 6 years old, and shouldn't be in that condition (it was an expensive model too). She said that I was lucky that it was still working at all after 6 years! I would not buy another. Don't know about the gas, but do know that they don't stand behind their products.

Gas versus induction is a personal choice. I am installing induction but have cooked with both gas and standard electric. In my own experience, unless one has installed a wok burner, the benefits of gas stoves is overrated as my cooking output did not improve when the same dish was cooked on gas versus electric :-). I would definitely opt for a slide in range versus the contrived cooktop with wall oven below because it doesn't increase functionality at all and as cpartist posted, it decreased functionality since the height is generally lower than an integrated stove. Also, there are some models that have two ovens and so the smaller oven - which is probably the one that would be used 99% of the time is highly functional and at an even more comfortable height.