I am by no means an expert but first off I would say that the hood needs to be wider than the range, and especially so since it appears you want to mount it very high - I have a 36" 1200 CFM hood over my 30" Bluestar mounted at 30" and I would not want to change anything.

Personally I would not change that burner to the 22K: the simmer is noticeably lower on the 15K and I think it would be very useful up front. Why don't you just swap out the positions of the 22 & 15K on the front and have 15K, 22K, 22K in that order - or is that not an allowable configuration?

Good luck!

Tina

2 Ultras are enough. And I would leave them just where they are. If you switch to a 3 X 22k lineup on the front you are not going to like having no place for simmering save for the back row. I have a 16" wok and use it on the right hand side all the time. My range hood works fine there. If you try to butt two 22k burners side by side you will invariably run into interference problems when you are trying to use two big pans.

Basically, I think you will find that you will settle on one of the 22k burners and use that one for 95% of your cooking. If you are right handed it will be the hob on the right, and vice versa. After you get over the shock of how intense the big burners are, you will be glad to have a more temperate burner in the front to move stuff onto. The big ones are powerful enough that when they are going full tilt they take a lot of attention to avoid burning the food. And I find the simmer setting on my one big burner (I have the RCS model) to be too hot for delicate items like Hollandaise, etc.

First- what happened to the "Supernova" burner? I'd swear that's what they called it when we bought ours.

I had to look on their site to realize that they don't put the 22k burners on the back row any more. Personally, the 2 22k burners get the least use for us. We either put the wok on the front one or a big pot for pasta and the like. My biggest use for the back 22k burner was to put a 10-gal tamale steamer on there once.

I get your logic for moving one 22k to the center, but I'd almost center one and put the 2nd on the back row. And I definitely wouldn't add one (I suspect BS won't do that for UL reasons). Or (horror!), I'd get rid of the 2nd one all together for a 15k. Again, that's based on my situation of small family and not cooking massive quantities most of the time.

We have a 42" wide x 27" deep VAH 30" high over our 36" RNB. Having the one 22k burner at the front L hasn't been a problem. Personally, I'd go wider than the range. And I'd at least follow the manufacturer's recommendations on height above the range (37" seems way high).

I agree, if I were doing it again I would change one of my 22Ks on my 30" range for a 15K. One 22K would be enough for me and I like the flexibility of the 15K: not too shabby but a nice low simmer.

Thank you all for your advice and insights.

The reason I want to mount the hood 36" above the cooktop instead of 30" is because my wife is really unhappy with all the scars and dents she has on the top of her head from standing up whilst under the hood.