We went back and forth for months on the stove for our kitchen remodel last year.
For resale a gas Wolf is probably best, so that was a consideration. But the cleaning is horrendous. The grates are so heavy, and there’s little nooks, crannies and crevices everywhere. We cook breakfast and dinner on the stove top almost every day, and my wife insists on a spotless kitchen at all times, so it seemed like a daunting daily task.
We tried out a ton of different systems, and ended up with this:
https://www.thermador.com/us/en/mkt-product/cooktops-rangetops/induction-cooktops/CIT36YWBB
We’ve liked it. It is super precise in its heating. It has like 20 levels of heat, from ultra low simmer to insane raging boil, so once you learn the levels it’s easy to dial in the exact heat you need. It gets to that level almost instantly, and when you change temperatures it’s almost instant. The speed in which it gets a pot of water boiling is remarkable. It has serious power. The evenness of the heating is unbeatable, it’s straight even across the pan.
It’s interesting because the entire surface is cooktop. You put a pan anywhere on it, and it works on that spot. That’s a really cool feature that we like a lot.
Also, it cools down incredibly quickly. It’s basically instantly cool enough so it wouldn’t burn you.
And of course you can’t beat the ease of cleaning, it’s a single flat plane of glass.Even the biggest messes are cleaned in seconds.
The downsides? The glass is tough but it can be scratched by heavy and rough cast iron. You can’t really shuffle and flip on it like on a gas grill, if you like doing that. Some people prefer the aesthetic of a gas stove. The cost seems a bit unreasonable. I have some concern about the long term reliability since it seems complicated and is all touch screen (but that may be just me).