Not sure about the Elite series, but I looked at two Kenmore fridges recently, one was a trio. One was made by LG & the other Amana. While they looked sleek & had the features I wanted, I ruled them out. It seems most of the guts & moving parts of these fridges are flimsy & can easily crack or break & I hear of lots of problems with the LG's & when there is a prob it's hard to find someone to fix.

I can't compare what I have learned to your choices, but I have decided to go with the Samsung french door fridge from Lowe's. I seriously have been to Lowe's, Best Buy, Home Depot & Sears at least 5 times each looking at fridges, +countless hours of online reserach. I don't wnat to get burned again & have to replace a major appliance after 3 years.

We bought a Kenmore Elite Trio last September. The first one they delivered did not cool down at all. Called and they wanted to send a repairman but my husband had them bring another one. It cooled down and then started to freeze things in the refrigerator. Repairman came out and said he wanted to replace both thermostats. Different repairman replaced those and the whole unit didn't cool down. Lost food in the refrigerator and freezer. Another visit fixed that but we still have frozen lettuce and vegetable issues. And now I've just noticed that one of the door seals is ripped! The onle thing I like about it is the large bottom drawer. To say the least we are not happy with it.
We are planning to embark on a remodel and the discussion on Miele ovens is very timely. I am assuming that the users of the double ovens have cooktops. Any recomendations there?

Don't go there. There are numerous compaints on the web regarding this big piece of junk! I had mine for 1 yr. and 3 months before I came home to the smell of smoke. The freezer was working, but the fridge was not. After playing cat and mouse with Sears repair, they finally came 3-weeks later and replaced a $25.00 fan for the amazingly low cost of $286.00. Wow!! What a deal!! Come to find out that there have been 26,000 of these Kenmore Elite Trio fridges recalled in the last couple of years, made under various manufacturers....although Sears will tell you they have not had a recall.

I bought a Kenmore Elite five years ago for my new house. I've had someone in to fix it at least four times. Two of those times my freezer broke and I lost all the food in my fridge. The other two times were for the ice maker. The only other Kenmore appliance I have in my house is my washer, which has broken down too. All of my other appliances, which are not Kenmore, have not needed repairs. I won't buy Kenmore again.

I have the same problem with mine, freezing the food in the bottom drawer. I closed off the port to the freezer, didn't help. Can't keep lettuce, etc in there. POS.
Same goes for the Elite 40 dual fuel range.

Well, that is discouraging. I looked at the Kenmore Elite today - made by LG - BF, FD, with door ice and water dispenser and thought that it might be what I have been looking for. Guess I will go back to the Amana idea.....I am beginning to think that getting a really PLAIN and less expensive unit may be better. Why is this so difficult?

Big Piece of JUNK! I bought my Kenmore Trio Elite for $1500. About a year and a half later I spent $250 on a repair. About one to two years later I spent $250 more to fix it again and for a year warrenty. My warrenty was up a month ago and it just broke again two days ago. I'm tired of spending money on this piece of garbage. I will never buy Kenmore again and I hope no one else will either. I recomend looking into Consumer Reports before buying a major appliance, if you don't already.

I just bought a Kenomore Elite (not called Trio though) yesterday and now read this post!! I am worried now so I googled it and found there is a recall on the Trio model. Just an FYI if it helps you out.
With that in mind I'm assuming the model I purchased isn't the faulty one since they wouldn't be able to sell it if it's recalled, I HOPE!!