Double your ventilation and make up air. Grills don’t really belong indoors without a lot of expensive work.

I don't have a Miele, BUT while shopping for a range I was advised strongly against having a grill inside... not once, not twice, but by THREE different appliance dealers / salespeople. We looked at and considered a Miele, Thermador, and eventually ended up purchasing a Lacanche. I believe the biggest reason against a grill is the mess they create, but I'm not a pro.

If it were me, I'd want what I paid for. The appliance installers do this day in and day out and they will be able to remove their appliance and install the correct one.

I agree no grill in the house, get the griddle, you will be happy in the long run. I got a griddle and love it.

No grill, sorry.

You did not choose a grill. Don't settle. Do you want to live with regret every day you look/use your range for the next 10 or 20 years?

Sounds like I should swap it out which needs no range for Christmas - huge bummer

we did buy a top of the line 54” vent a hood. We live in a pretty moderate climate so not sure make up air is an issue here.

I was hoping people would say indoor grills are great to have but it sounds like that is not the case. If they make a mess, it probably isn’t going to be good even if we do have enough ventilation.

so frustrating.. we haven’t had a kitchen since April 2018 :(

MUA IS an issue. Air can’t exhaust out of a home unless it has replacement air. It’s also code required. You can’t have new build that ignores building code, if you do, you‘ve got other issues.

I am sure the contractor has installed the vent a hood to code. i know we bought the top of the line vent a hood. It was expensive. Not sure if there is anything more we need for a grill. Anyway, sounds like indoor grill has A lot of issues.. thinking I should have the other one put in

I am so sorry this happed. Griddles are much more versatile and don't cause a huge mess. I hope you get compensated for this huge holiday headache.

For what it's worth, I once locked up my oven the night before Thanksgiving and cooked everything on the BBQ grill outside, including a chocolate layer cake... And also agree - grew up in a house with a Jenn-Air indoor grill. We used it once or twice and it sat unused for another 20 years.

Thanks for all the comments. We are going to have it swapped out for the one with the griddle.

I have cooked on a newer 36 Miele with grill. I believe the grill unit is the same size as the one in the 48 range. On different occasions I used the grill to cook shrimp, veggies, mushrooms (basted with garlic butter), and fish. Like any grill, the Miele needed to heat-up in advance of cooking. This took about 20 minutes. The grill has a temperature range, and on high, this grill gets hot! The range we used was vented with a hood that very adequately pulled out grill smoke and odors. To the point where I have to say this was not a factor (which surprised me). We did not need to turn the hood on immediately on heat up. However,
once finished grilling food, the grill has to be kept on for
awhile (10 to 15 minutes or so), to incinerate all the drippings. I needed to keep the hood on during this burn-off phase... which was mildly annoying. Grill clean up was straight forward: once the grill parts have cooled down you take the heavy grate off for cleaning (it can be put directly into the dishwasher), then remove and sponge down the protective plate under the grate, wipe down the heating element thing under the protective plate, and wipe down the surrounding grill frame (which can be removed if needed). I am guessing it took about 10 minutes for the clean up routine. One thing that is probably obvious, but worth noting here: these range top grills are not replacements for large outdoor BBQ grills. The actually grilling area is smallish: hibachi size.

I thought I would use our griddle. I don't. It's not level with the cooktop so it's not that easy to get utensils around the sides of the pancakes. and really - it's just not that large. IMO rarely are they large enough to be useful.

I also agree about a griddle pan being better.

I also sous vide. I can easily see how being able to finish a steak or chop inside on a small grill would be really nice - vs taking out the large outdoor grill (at that point, hubby says - I'll just grill the damn thing...)

I'd think about this. I don't think that you'll use either all that much. But the griddle can be fairly easily replicated with the large griddle pan.

Like Leslie..DH and I had the Jennaire with the modules that you could swap out...burners, griddle, and grill module. It was hilarious especially since it was a downdraft. I think we used the grill module once and never again. What a mess. The griddle wasn’t too bad. Mostly we just left the burner module in.

not sure how I got talked into this thing but had it for 15 years.

I vote no on the grill!