BlueStar. No dual fuel anything. Ever.

First of all, check out the Appliances forum. Clever folks over there. [Here’s an old thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/blue-star-all-gas-vs-dcs-dual-fuel-dsvw-vd~2274557) that might be helpful to you.

Secondly, I fall in love with DCS every Saturday when I watch Cook’s Illustrated on PBS. Their entire kitchen is by DCS. They are part of the Fisher and Paykel family. They are well represented in the US now (from Australia), but in terms of finding repair folks, perhaps you should ask who in the area offers factory service. Don’t get Viking.

Do you love to cook? If so, you might want to consider BlueStar and Capitol Culinarian, just to include two brands that use open burners vs. the two you’re considering now with sealed burners. The former have exquisite temperature control at low temps. You can melt chocolate on them without a double boiler.

Finally, the idea of an electric oven with its consistent heat is highly appealing. There have been reliability issues with dual fuel ranges in the past that have been dealt with for the most part. If you will have no other oven in your space, I would consider the dual fuel.

We don't have the range, but we do have a 48" DCS rangetop. After 7 years, no issues, and very good temperature control. We are big cooks and are quite happy with the performance and reliability. I know you want a range, but just throwing this out there as when we were looking there were almost no comments on GW about the DCS brand.

Fisher & Paykel/DCS was purchased by the Chinese company Haier in 2012. Haier also bought GE Appliances last year.

ATK now has Wolf appliances in their new test kitchen.

We had a DCS range at a previous house and no issues at all. It was a very nice range and was gas only. We had a Viking in the last house and had lots of problems with it. I wouldn't recommend a Viking at all. Current new house we chose Capital and love it so far but have only been in our house about 5 months. Great burner control.

Michelle, I read about that but I’ve only seen the new kitchen in press releases. I haven’t seen any episodes with the new appliances yet.

Of course, now I’m wondering how to get Wolf to donate new ovens to moi.

I am going to place an order for a 30" RNB Blue Star this morning. So excited! Made in PA, very few parts and open burners. Also, as others mentioned, I read about experiences with Blue Star on the Appliance Forum too, as well as looking at videos on Instagram (#bluestarcooking) or Youtube to see it in action. The open burners is what sealed (no pun intended!) the deal for me.

It will be 10 years this summer ---- 30 inch AG DCS. Not one problem.