Well i guess it makes sense if you have a garden and want to cook outside ... but even then i would probaly get a decent bbq grill .. and a cheap gas stove to keep things warm

Not only does it look like a nightmare to keep clean (yes, I am OCD about that tidy stuff, sue me), but if you keep wheeling half out to grill with, the elements will dull the finish a lot faster and then the parts will not look the same, ruining the overall appearance and shortening the useful life.
Keep the Whirlpool inside and buy on of those dreamy Weber Gas Grills for outside.

Yah, I'd say that's super overkill. For those wanting japanese table-side theater ("What kind of restaurant makes you cook your own food?") there are plenty of alternatives like plug-in and gas powered shabu-shabu and sukiyaki tabletop cookers. Actually, you can just use any coleman or msr portable gas stove. Mmmm. Got me thinking. I might have sukiyaki tonight!

@Curves: But think how much easier it will be to clean beside and behind the stove. You know, that little crack where tiny things fall down and grow into sticky nasty mold pools, but you can't just get in there and clean it because you pretty much have to take the kitchen apart...so it's just sitting there...getting dirtier and dirtier...growing little colonies...until you get this faint smell from some corner of somewhere and you can't even figure out where it is...

It has a use, but in cleaning and maintenance, not portability. Ever drop something behind your range? No mean feat to retrieve it. Ditto painting around it, or cleaning under it. It's starting to look good to me. Where's the fridge?

I like it on some levels, but as a grill owner I see the advantage to having both separate.
There are two different types of cooking happening in each of these things after all.

What I've found invaluable is a grill with a separate burner for pots and such. THAT'S great to have.

Something like this might be a good compromise, and would be handy on a balcony or something to keep the heat out of a small apartment.

The problem simplified for me is this:
Cheap ones will end up hurting people and good ones will be too expensive.

@92BuickLeSabre: That's what the ants, roches and mice are for. To eat the grease and mold. The food chain circle of kitchen life.

Patent pending?

@strider_mt2k:

"The problem simplified for me is this:
Cheap ones will end up hurting people and good ones will be too expensive."

Elliot Spitzer's problem too, don't ya think?

@92BuickLeSabre: Spank you very much for the Formula 409 fueled compulsion to spring clean anything that doesnt run in terror.
Actually, I am embarassed to admit I have those THINGIES that you put on the stove to cover the gap between counter and stove just for that very reason.

@Curves:
@strider_mt2k:

absolutely nothin' wrong with bein' clean some people

@Curves:

Wouldnt it be easier if you just filled the gap with silicone ? and be done with it ?

Where's the mobil exhaust fan to go with it?

"nipping out to a Japanese restaurant"

dude.

@Hunty:
yeah better to wok to a chinese restaurant.

@Redwraithvienna: I dont think that would keep the crumbs out, just keep them from falling all the way down and what happens when I get a new range and have to try and get this one out; it would be bound in with the silicone.

(ps-funny pic)

@Redwraithvienna:

breast implants for a kitchen gadget? who'd a thought.......

@Curves:
10 points where you guess from which add it is ... and for what ... the line in the middle is a give away :)

@mtopper:
more like bonding aid :) for a thighter relationship between them

@Redwraithvienna: Ad for viagra for guys with really short legs? Ad for hemmoroid reduction in short people? Ad for anti-monkeytail cream? (In other words, I have no idea but I am leaning toward the Viagra.)

@Curves: add for xlarge condoms !