They look great but I was hoping for a small upper oven, which I know I would use more often than the bigger oven with 2 people in the house. It seems what ever I had in mind or was about to purchase has been discontinued.

I love the double oven and am on my second one, since leaving other selling house. None of the ones on the floor were exactly as wanted. Became spoiled having the toaster option and optional heating sizes. What you don't see on the floor can be ordered form a huge catalog the sales people have hidden. Look for one with all the options you have and also try to find one on line to match prices. Lowes has a refrigerator 200 less than the one at HD, they will price match and deduct another 10% I prefer HD, the service in the one near me is great. i can ask a ton of questions and they are so good at spending time to find an answer. Even take my garden power tools into the rental side and they adjust free, tell me where I went wrong.

You probably already know about the Samsung Chef Collection slide in induction range with Duo Flex oven. I have researched all summer and I believe we are about to order this one. The large oven can be separated into two separate ovens by inserting a metal plate. when separated by the plate, the upper oven is the smaller one. I don't have first hand experience with how well it works. Reviews look good.

The only other thing I can find that fits our "induction with double oven" preference is an induction cooktop paired with the GE single/double oven below. I like this option too, but the fact that the Samsung Duo Flex can also be used as one large oven has is leaning that way. We don't have the option of placing the oven anywhere else except under our cooktop

The only thing I can see the Samsung range lacks is the "bridge" feature that supposedly allows one to pair two adjacent burners and cool with a long griddle. I think I would like that, and could get it with the separate cooktop option.

IIRC, only Whirlpool has ever manufactured induction ranges with two separate ovens. Those were sold as Whirlpools. Maytags and KitchenAids. They had high-temp self cleaning functions instead of the much maligned AquaLift mode. IIRC, the Kitchenaid version, KFID500ESS, was also supposed to have had some kind of steam oven function My recollection is that Whirlpool discontinued them a year ago. Somewhere here I recently saw a posting that Home Depot still has some of the KitchenAid models available for special order. Those may be in the "big book" that Elraes Miller mentioned. Not sure if there was or will be much of a deal on them, though. Sears Outlet also may have some of them, as well.

My recollection of postings is that the reviews were pretty mixed on both the Whirlpool-made double oven ranges and the Samsung divisible-oven slide-in induction range (NE58H9970WS???). Worth checking out the reviews to see what to watch out for. Also, a good idea to download and read the Owner's Guides before buying one of these ranges.

Other than that, I have not seen or heard anything about anybody else venturing into this market.

A possible alternative solution for KAREN though not for thereunionband --- maybe looking into getting a regular induction range with one of the better countertop convection ovens like the Breville Smart Oven (BOV800??) or the slightly smaller convection steam oven from Cuisinart (CSO300?). Both garnered some pretty favorable reports here, at eGullet and Chowhound over the last few years.

As for "bridged" burner function that thereunionband is considering, those can be a mixed bag, as well. Often, the bridging function is not really bridging. Often what is called "bridging" is actually only a way to link the controls for two burners without putting any heating elements between the two burners. Many induction owners will use them with a cast-iron griddle. Cast iron is very much induction ready and the griddles are readily avaialble and not very expensive. Unfortunately, they will have full temperature circles directly over the burners and not-so-hot areas between and around them. (Cast iron is great at absorbing and retaining heat but not very good at spreading it evenly.) Getting one of the better and larger (and thicker) carbon-steel griddles (say, a Chef King) can mitigate this a bit but most of us still find that the areas between the burners will not be as hot and take longer to cook pancakes, burgers and the like. What would be ideal (but I do not know if anybody actually makes one) would be a rectangular carbon steel griddle wrapped around a large slug/layer of aluminum.

Another potential disappointment with cast-iron griddles on induction --- that is, a disappointment for those who hope to have a perfectly evenly heated cooking surface --- is there will be something of a mismatch between burner sizes and griddle widths. My Lodge griddle is not quite 12 inches wide. Last time I checked, most of the ranges and cooktops seemed to be linking burners with six or seven inch induction fields. My recollection is that only the GE induction ranges (PHS920 and PHB920) have linked 8" burners.

There are some induction cooktops with actual bridging functions --- where there are additional induction coils between the burners or an array of smaller coils. The ones that come to mind right now are from BSH, which owns the Bosch Benchmark and Thermador brands.

How does it work on the Samsung Duo Flex when you are using both ovens and baking something delicate in oven A and shoudln"t open door, which would cause a flop, but need to open the door for the other dish in oven B?

Thanks jwvideo for all the info. I don't want to give up on my dream appliance.

Yeah, thanks jwvideo for sharing all that.

There's still only one oven door when separating the Samsung into two ovens, so every time you open the door for one oven, you are opening both ovens. That's a downside. Luckily I rarely bake anything that's delicate. Samsung has another duo-flex range with a special split door where you can open up only the top oven without opening the bottom oven. That special door looks to be only available with a non-induction top, per Samsung's website. I am going to be disappointed if they put the special door on the induction range after we buy the single door version!

Thanks for discussing the bridge function. I was wondering about whether there was an element between burners with a bridge function, since it would otherwise seem that any stove could be said to have a "bridge" function just by turning on both burners to the same setting :-)

If there was a downdraft version of the range Karen and I are both wanting, all my problems would be solved! I am replacing a island Jenn-Air drop-in downdraft, but Jenn-Air's current downdraft version doesn't have induction AND the top doesn't overlap the adjacent countertop. I don't believe that the stove I need is made. :-(

You might think about the GE Single Double oven underneath an induction cooktop. I think it is one of the few where clearance issues above should not be a problem since the controls are on the (upper) door.

I am hoping the KitchenAid and Whirlpool double oven induction free-standing ranges will return now that KA ha got the KA & JA slide-in induction ranges released to the market. I won't settle for aqua-lift "self-cleaning" oven. I've lived with continuous clean oven for 30 years and I'm tired of a dirty oven!!!

Just saw on AGA's North American website that they will be coming out with two 48" induction ovens. They both have three ovens (the typical side by side of the wider AGA cookers). The AGA Mercury and the AGA Elise.

The Kitchenaid double oven induction range is on the Kitchenaid website as new. It is KFID500ESS which is the same as what jwvideo mentions. It doesn't have any reviews nor can I find any online. I have wondered if this were a reissue of an earlier stove with the same number. They have it at HD too.

It's also at Sears. I would imagine whatever inventory retailers had of the KFID5000 was returned to the factory and brought up to whatever enhancements designers/engineers decided was needed. If GE doesn't come out with something like this, then the 5000 (or its successor) will be what I get some day because it has two REAL self-cleaning ovens. Hopefully GE will continue their heavy-duty oven racks which can stay in the oven during cleaning cycles.