You'll be very pleased with the cooktop. GE Monogram has dual stacked burners that give an incredible simmer. They were originally made by DCS but are no longer although the design is similar.

As far as the appliances you don't have, do some research - no reason to stick with GE Monogram if something else appeals to you.

I have the Monogram ZET double ovens. They were installed about 1 year ago. They have never worked the way I expected they would work. Another forum member has had the same problems with her ovens that I have had. GE recently bought back her ovens. GE's General Manager called in response to my e-mail citing the same problems. He told me based on the service reports that there was nothing wrong with my ovens, and do not call for service. Needless to say, I am extremely unhappy with GE Monogram.

The convection feature is worthless. Uneven heat distribution is a huge problem and convection multi-rack baking is impossible. The set temperature drops as much as 50 degrees within 4 minutes of reaching the preheat temp. My strategy is to turn the temp down 25 degrees and back up to the baking temp about every 3-5 minutes. It keeps the temp from dropping more than about 25 degrees, which is still to much for any delicate baking. It is ridiculous it is necessary to require such constant monitoring. High high baking is just a disaster. The temp drops as much as 75 or 100 degrees within minutes. Making pita bread or pizza is worse because the oven door is opened and closed so often. I put a baking stone on the lower rack of each oven to try and get it to hold a more constant temperature, but it doesn't help.

I made sticky buns and potato sandwich buns recently. Both ovens preheated to 375 on multirack for an hour. The temp check before putting the risen dough in the oven was 332 in the top oven and 338 in the bottom oven. The ovens were switched to bake and up to temperature before the buns went into the oven. Again, I cannot bake on more than one rack, so it took both ovens to bake two pans of buns (of each kind) on the 2nd rack from the bottom with the baking stone on the bottom rack. I set a timer and check the oven temperature every 4 minutes. It drops every time from 10 - 45 degrees. The top of the sticky buns browns too fast and I have to put foil on to keep them from turning nearly black. The potato buns were too white on the bottom and nicely brown on the top without foil. They were baked last, so with the oven off, the buns went on the baking stone to brown a little on the bottom.

These Christmas sugar cookies show the unevenness of the heat distribution on convection bake.

These cookies were baked in the same oven at the same time as the ones above on convection bake.

My advice is to be cautious, and be sure the appliances function the way you expect them do. Some appliance stores will let you use the appliances in the store before purchase. I wish I had.

We bought our house with various GE appliances including a double electric GE Profile oven which has a convection.

We've replaced the GE Nautilus dw with a fantastic Miele La Perla. The GE one was AWFUL, loud and you had to constantly re-do the dishes.

Cooktop - GE, the cooktop GE Profile MISSPELLED "LIGHT" for "Lite", and only one has the big burner. It's a 5 burner cooktop, 3 are LOW burners, unusable, except for warming! The other burner is ok, normal, doesn't go as high at the burner on the right. We want Blue Star...dunno if we'll put it in but it's frustrating to cook.

And don't get me started about the electric oven....we'd rather have gas and Blue Star again. It works but electric ovens are not as good as gas.

I have the MONOGRAM DW... just installed new in Aug. So far so good. It's our very first DW ever, we're two people and not too picky. We have zero fancy china to worry about, just regular old plates, utensils, tupperware and some basic no-stick All_Clad. We've only used the regular wash cycle so far. It's super quiet and it does an excellent job cleaning our dishes, we have no complaints so far. Sometimes the stuff on the top rack doesn't dry, esp. the tupperware, but I don't mind. It beats havng to hand wash every day, I just give the tupperware a wipe off with the dishtowel. Haven't tried the heated cycle yet.

You will hate the GE appliances. Total overpriced trash. They are for wannabes who should have either saved their money and bought standard items or else dug deeper and bought the real thing from Bosch, Miele, etc.

I got the Monogram 36" drop-in gas cooktop this spring and LOVE it. I put in a Monogram dual fuel range in my previous house and loved it so I went with the cooktop this time around as I replaced a 30 year old electric smoothtop that I loathed. The huge middle burner is great for the wok (though I'm not a serious wok user who wants the 100k or whatever burner) and big pans, and the separate simmer is good. I would say the simmer is great, but at 8200' in the mountains, it's hard enough just to get things to boil and simmering is sometimes *too* low. The continuous grates are wonderful for sliding big pots and pans around and the whole thing even the SS is tremendously easier to clean than that old smoothtop. With the drop-in, I also like having the controls on the top instead of on the front like the slide-in cooktops as the idea of leaning against the controls while cooking bothers me.

In the previous house I also had the Monogram microwave (the smaller one, not the one that matches a 30" wall oven width) that had power to spare so everything cooked fast and nicely. The outlet didn't have the power for the Advantium so that wasn't an option for me.

I agree that for the appliances you don't have, get what *you* need and don't default to the Monogram just to be matchy-matchy--unless what you need is to be matchy-matchy LOL!

The range and MW I used for ~4 years and never had any issue with either one.