We had a dual fuel range that LOOKED nice, but the range of High/Low cooking heats on the stovetop was terrible. You can tell the minutes you turn on a burner that this is a much higher quality range. We have only been using it for a week now, but what I have noticed is the excellent simmer capacity. The big burner is also a total workhorse. I'm still not sure if we'll use the griddle, but I'm so glad that burner has the option to function as a normal, round burner OR as a griddle burner. We find that we never use the griddle option, and that took up half of our old stove. Hoping we get many years of trouble-free cooking with this stove. My husband installed it, and is very handy, and found it to be moderately difficult to install (we had to do the LP conversion). Also, I was thinking about getting the trim kit to fill the very small slit between the sides of the oven and the granite countertop, but honestly, it looks fine, and if a few crumbs drop down there, oh well...