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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wolf is the Louboutin of kitchen appliances.  Overpriced, performs about as well as any other showy and non-practical item, but instantly recognizable...[/quote]

So what do you recommend?  Multiple people have responded saying the less expensive Monogram was terrible and not reliable, and every Wolf poster has been happy and said how reliable it is.  Do you have another brand you prefer?[/quote]
So... I do have opinions on this, but I don't think you will like them.  I cook a lot, grew up in a family that cooks a lot, and spent many years in the restaurant business.  All of the brands you named are unnecessarily expensive for what they deliver.  Unless you plan on doing frequent imperial chinese style cooking (high-heat wok), you don't need any of them.  You don't need anything more powerful than 20,000 BTU for most anything.  You can get this type of output on much less expensive brand.  [b]You also are not likely to need a stove with 6 burners.  Even cooking multi-course meals, I rarely use 4 burners at once.[/b]  For my own remodel, I went with a GE cafe range (was under $2500)... but I don't care about how "high-end" my appliances appear to people.  The Cafe has plenty of output for me, and an extra oven drawer that I occasionally use.  You can easily spend 4x as much on a range by the brands you listed, but I guarantee that the food you put out won't be 4x as good.[/quote]

I’m a PP who has Wolf, and I agree with most of this, especially the last sentence. I happen to really like my Wolf appliances and think they are high-quality, but I would never deny that I paid a mark-up for the brand or that the brand of your cooking equipment makes a big difference in output. (I also don’t have the red knobs because red doesn’t work with my kitchen colors.)

The part I don’t agree with is bolded; I think 5-6 burners makes a huge difference. I do occasionally use four burners at once, and even when I’m using just three, I appreciate the space/flexibility that having five provides. [/quote]

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