"Cheap Chinese . . . crapola ....." Okay, that is the wrong knock. The "crapola" debate was hashed out here --- and resolved against that opinion --- in threads here five years ago. The knock on the Hyxxion-made stoves (Thor and NXR) is not their old fashioned simplicity nor is it "crapola" build quality Unless the definition of crapola is minimal electronics and manual clean ovens. :>) The knock is poor post-sale service and support for those who are not enthusiastic and self-sufficient DIYers. One might ask, "if these are such simple stoves, why worry about service?" Well, I have not had to "continually fix things" but you do need to consider that the Hyxxion-made stoves (Thor, NXR and Kucht) are a decades old design. Think Wolf sealed-burner stoves from back in the 1980s, long before SubZero bought the residential product line from the old Wolf company and back when the old company first started making a residential product. Or maybe think old-fashioned Jeep 4wd vehicles. Those kinds of products need periodic maintenance. For example, every so often, an old-style Jeep requires replacement points and spark plugs, lubrication of bearings and such. So also, at some point, your NXR or Thor will (just like the decades old Wolf models) will need to have burners cleaned out, will need somebody to remove gunk build-up on jets, and eventually will need some stovetop or oven ignitors replaced. These can be easy tasks for confident and capable DIYers. See the thread ["if-susan-fixed-her-nxr-oven-ignitor-u-can-2"[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/if-susan-fixed-her-nxr-oven-ignitor-u-can-2-dsvw-vd~2288437?n=32) for an example. But many people are not enthusiastic, confident appliance DIYers. Even if you are, you might not have the time for it. If so, you will need a servicer. At least with an old-style Jeep, you can pretty readily find somebody to work on it for you. Might not be true for appliances if you've chosen a brand with a small market share. Best to check before buying. By "check," I mean you should do more than have Home Depot tell you that it can give you list of servicers if and when your Thor or NXR might need service. Call the servicers on the list. Find out who will actually work in your area and work on that brand. Servicers are getting old and retiring. More and more small service companies are no longer doing warranty work. Heck, when I needed minor warranty work on my new dishwasher -- somebody to replace a leaky $8 hose fitting --- I was given lists of servicers from Lowe's (where I bought it) and Bosch (who made it). Turned out that nobody on either list covered my town. And that was for a major brand appliance! The DIY consideration is for every brand with a small market share. Even Blue Star. Depending on where your home is located, you could have difficulty finding anybody to service any residential appliance from a company with a small market share. If you are not a DIYer, best sort that out before making a decision on what to buy. Also, in every manufacturer's product line, some lemons will get past quality control. Best to think about how you might deal with that if your stove turns out to be a defective one. Me, I bought my NXR from Costco.com going on seven years ago. I bought there because of Costco's policy of absolute full-customer-satisfaction and-full-refund-even-if turns-out that- you-just-don't-like-the product-after-using-it-for-a-while. Now, I also have a truck, a hoist, and burly friends to help load the stove to take to the local Costco, so I could easily have hauled my stove in for a refund or replacement if my NXR had been defective when it arrived. I would not have had to put up with drawn out delays for warranty fixes and eventual return. So, have you figured out what you would do if your new stove turned out to be defective after you receive it? It is true that you could wind up with that situation if you were to buy a Bosch or one of the $1000 major brand gas ranges you mentioned as your preferred alternative. But, those are smaller than and only weigh half as much as that 36" wide $1800 NXR "entree" from Home Depot, or the $2k DRGB floor model. You might be able to haul one of those alternative 30" model ranges back to HD on your own. Could you do that with the big NXR? For that matter, does your local Home Depot even stock the NXRs and Thors or would it be a special order? (My local Home Depot says that they are special order only. Your local HD might be different.) If special ordered, do you know if you could return it to the a local store and whether there would be restocking charges on this brand? What if you buy that older floor model NXR for $2k? (Is that a DRGB 3600 model? FWIW, a DRGB is the model NXR that I have.) Then there still are the 36" width and weight to deal with. To the questions others raised above, I would add the following. Is the stove going into a new build or an existing home? If an existing home, how will it be delivered? Whether you buy the $2k floor model DRGB version of the NXR from the dealer or the $1800 "Entree" NXR from HD, will it be installed for you or just delivered to your curb? How does it get into (or out) of your home? How hard would it be to move in a 36" wide stove? And that leads me to ask what is the attraction of the 36" size of range for you? Is it maybe style such as hoping for a higher-end look for real estate values? Or is it instead that maybe that you are thinking about stovetop cooking space and extra burners? Have you checked to see how your pots and pans will fit, as somebody above suggested? If so, I'd ask how often you think you will need the extra space or extra burners? If not frequently (like every week), I'd suggest considering alternatives for those functions for which extra burners might be needed. For example, I would look at at a large electric griddle which can be stashed when not using it. Say, a Broil-King for those times when you need to produce mass quantities of pancakes. Also, for pots, maybe consider a portable induction cooktop or two which you can pull out when you all need more than four burners at a time. (FWIW, the burners on the 30" NXR and Thor stoves are more widely spaced than on standard major brand ranges.) Do you regularly need to use full size sheet pans (18" x 26") so that the 30" width of the oven would be useful to your family?

If oven consistency is what you need, avoid the LG. Our neighbor, a semi-pro baker, had one and had nothing but problems with it. Turns out the heating element in LG ovens is located in a weird spot, which causes hot spots and cool spots. Like stuff was burnt on one side and raw on the other. She had techs out and both said it was working as designed, but they weren’t designed very well. She ended up selling it and getting a GE and is very happy. We also have a GE and like it.

Charles Ross Homes, Bosch brand can be compared to GE on American market quality, it’s not bad but it’s definitely not the quality for the price. 15 years ago when I was in Ukraine their stores were filled with this brand and few others too, on my opinion Bosch isn’t worth invest into. BUT I know many people are drawn by the European look. Well it’s fine as it looks good. So years later when I saw Bosch on American marker I was shocked, how, why and who allowed it here? Glad I found your review which proofs again to stay away from it. Thanks

We love the look of the Wolf with the red knobs but seems like it is even more basic (4 burners instead of 5, no preheating indicator) than the Thermador? Have you looked under the hood? 5 Burner Thermador: Back burners are 8000 BTU. Front right burner is 15k, front left is 18k and center burner is a puny 10k. Makes no sense to me that the small front right & left burners are more powerful than the center burner. The center burner is where you would place a really big pan & it has less power than the smaller front burners. Fitting that 5th burner on the Thermador comes at the expense of sacrificing the burner real estate of the other 4 burners. The Wolf has three 15k burners and one 9200 burner. And space for large pots on all 4 burners. I would not even consider the 30" 5 burner Thermador. Because of how the BTUs are distributed among the burners and absolutely not because the left and right 4 burners are small in space. (Burner real estate was the Big Reason that I left mass market consumer ranges behind and went with a pro style. (Wolf). With that 5 burner model, Thermador is repeating sins of the past, IMO.