Do you put pots on the cover while it's closed? That could cause scratches. Personally, I would just view the scratches as patina and not worry about them - a working range won't continue to look pristine.

Kinda like that first ding in a new car. You can keep it nice but you can't keep it new. Enjoy your range. I have the same unit w/grill and yeah it gets scratches...my cover is marked up a bit as well as a few other marks. I am very picky about my range too,but realise, things happen.

Yep stainless looks great when new BUT its keeping it perfect no matter how careful is wishful thinking. All stainless steel will scratch and its nearly impossible to remove any scratch without making the piece look worse. Dents do happen and forget about fixing those. A rag with dirt can even scratch it - paper towels are a big NO NO (wood fibers are abrasive). A pot or metal utensil will scratch the surface immediately. Never wipe in a circular pattern only back on forth in the direction of the grain so it you have some grit on the cloth the scratch will blend into the horizontal grain. Over time using paper will cause bright spots from rubbing. This is basically the stainless steels grain being removed.

There are two types of stainless finishes - brushed and matte. The matte is IMPOSSIBLE to repair because if you polish it it will just polish out the matte finish and make it shiny compared to the rest of the piece. You can't fix this type of stainless unless its reshot blasted. If you try to polish a brushed piece it will remove the brush marks and the scratch will appear like a bright mark compared to the rest of the panel.

So what do you do - leave it alone or rebrush it. I'm a perfection freak so I learned how to rebrush. There are rebrushing kits BUT they require tons of patience and you have to do the entire panel. Essentially its a kit containing a series of sandpapers and a ridgid pad. You MUST go in one direction and move only in a horizontal pattern. NEVER move the pad vertically or you will make it worse. Smaller pieces work out well - big pieces like a refrig panel are nearly impossible to keep uniform and I'd take them to a stainless steel fabricator to refinish. They have giant graining machines with super wide sandpaper. If you expect to have it done in a few minutes - forget it try a few hours or even hours over a period of days.

I've done a sink and a range top edge. The sink was basically a regrain job and it looks better than the scratches and polished out bottom. It wasn't a job for the impatient and took an entire weekend. The range came out perfect. The graining wound up deeper than the original and seems to hide the fingerprints better and appears more scratch proof.

I bought some painters tape and covered the places I don’t want scratch. It protects the stainless and when I am through cooking I remove the tape. I hate having to be so careful but scratching an expensive appliance goes against my conscience plus I like the way the range looks without scratches!! I wish I knew this about stainless before I bought it but I was told it is popular and factories are going to keep making it so I thought I had no other choice. Low and behold now GE makes charcoal color appliances and white is back!

The best Bibles are those that are well-worn and thumbed through, meaning they are often read and used. The best appliances show many scratches, dents, and dings, meaning they are often used to cook for friends and family. The best-loved toys are also scratched and dented, missing patches of fur and buttons...

Who would trust a cook whose kitchen is pristine and whose equipment looks like new?

Use your range and be proud of its battle scars!

(ETA: If you REALLY don't want to scratch your Wolf, you could acquire a Labrador or a Collie, and scratch them, instead... LOL...)