Miele Oven Temperatures - Please Check Yours
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Comments (6)Okay here we go. Keep in mind through this that our oven is preset to be 20 or 25 degrees higher than that displayed on the oven itself. Set oven to preheat then 350. Did not time how long it took to get to preheat to the point of the oven saying it was at 350. Maybe should have. Thermometer was in centre of oven centre of rack. Checked when I heard the oven beep and the display went from PREA to 350 and the temperature on the thermometer was 325. Set the timer and watched the temp. Two minutes later the temp was at 350. Sounds like you let your oven go another 20 minutes before you checked it again and saw it was at 350? If so, may want to just see how long it takes to actually get there as it maybe did faster. Ours did in just 2 minutes with less initial temperature increase adjustment. If it took the full 20 minutes to finally reach temp after it said it had then that does not sound right to me at least. Certainly NO expert. BUT, here is the fun bit on ours. Temp kept climbing. Went up from there all the way to 400 and sat on 400 for a bit before it drifted down. Now keep in mind that I set the oven up 20 or 25 degrees, if memory serves, because of my first tests when we first got it. Different than the first test is that this time instead of going back every so often to see where the reading was I sat in front of the oven and kept and eye on the thermometer. The temp drifted down from 400 to right on 350 (maybe just the slightest of hairs below 350) before the oven clicked on again. Took about 17 minutes to drift down. Bottom element illuminated on the display and stayed on a minute or so and then went out. About a minute or so later the top element came on for about the same time. Temperature stayed hovering at 350-365. I sat there for another about 10 minutes and then I decided it must have leveled off and shut things down. So, taking into account my adjusting the oven up as I did, the 400 degree initial temperature after the preheat PRE letters went off and the 350 came on is still a bit strange. They do run on averages I would guess like a home heater thermostat (the house one). Heater runs until it reaches a certain level of temp over the set number. Shuts off and then clicks on when it reaches a certain number of degrees below the set number. That way your home averages at the temperature set. Might have mine set slightly high so may adjust it if I find timed bakes to not be working out right (overdone I would think would be the result in my instance). Well see how it goes. So far not really noticed a problem. Have done a couple of cakes, roasted potatoes, chips, pita pizzas and Yorkshire puddings. All seemed to be okay and have cooked okay. I'll have to just keep an eye on it and see if I need to adjust mine down a bit. I guess in just timing wise we are similar really, but NOT in the fact that yours took that long to reach temp at all from when it said it was. I too have dust in between the front and interior panel glass. The glass is open at the bottom on ours for air circulation I would guess. That way the front glass stays cool. Don't see much I can really do to prevent it as that is the design. Well, hope that helps some at least. Cheers...See MoreHas Miele replaced your ovens?
Comments (22)Tracy25, Sorry you're going through such a fiendish time with this. Despite loud shout-downs, I can personally substantiate that Miele CS / Tech Support can be really rubbish and they can dole out tripe with the best of them. I really don't have much truc for nonsense and after listening to chief CS or TS or some such top-man spout him circular logic at me, I lost patience with the bloke and could only muster the energy to ask him if *he* could follow what he was saying. That said, while Miele CS/TS are rubbish but they're not necessarily much worse than CS/TS anywhere else. The entire customer-interface community has gone to pot in every industry and I don't think that there is a saving grace. (Although from my experience, Wolf still - and only so far - still maintain a decent customer face). Also, once truly performing nominally, Miele ovens really are an excellent product. Now, people have had to resort to extreme moves to get satisfaction with Miele, including mailing the CEO's office in Germany or the head office in Princeton and the like. If you have the energy, you could try that. But I'd also recommend another angle. Try to talk to their head chef person @ Princeton. Discuss some of these recipe challenges you're facing. The chief engineer (engineers are idiots with a capital "I", don't worry) who thinks salmon at 50 minutes is nominal performance notwithstanding, float that one by the head chef. After they choke and pick themselves up off the floor, they'll either have you try a particular oven setting for fish or give some known calibrated recipes to try at particular settings to baseline the oven OR they'll give you their official word about the off-kilter-ness of the oven. That is something that perhaps with their help you can take back to the CS and tell 'em to hop to, stat. Now, none of this should be necessary. Speaking for myself, as a busy professional (engineer, myself. Sorry. Rockets. Not ovens.) I don't know that I'd have the time to try all these shenanigans to try to run so many diagnostics and perform my own V&V on a brand new appliance that the company can't be bothered to diagnose or V-V. BUT the fact is that when/if the oven works, it really should be splendid and so should be worth some amount of initial aggravation to get them sorted out. All the best. I honestly hope that the tide will turn soon and that you're rough road will be hoed for you! Nothing worse than ruing an expensive brand new acquisition that you were probably really anticipating....See MoreOven Temperature Wolf, Miele, Dacor
Comments (28)I had a svce tech here yesterday and asked him about the oven temp. According to the tech, on the Wolf at least, the set oven temp is reached within just a few minutes of the indicator light going out. I mentioned that the oven thermometer I'd put in the oven on an initial test-run didn't show the set temp until about 10 (15?) minutes after the light went out (but that once it reached it, it held it right there just fine). The tech indicated that the (dial) oven thermometers always lag a bit, and that we were perfectly okay starting our cooking/baking when the light goes out. FWIW, he seemed to know his stuff and did seem to know what he was talking about (someone familiar with the product he's servicing, imagine that?! LOL!). I'm inclined to trust him on that one (unless future baking/cooking results indicate otherwise). Re: pizza stone, he said NOT to place the stone on the floor of the oven, too much heat can build up underneath, and, I forgot the rest...! I didn't show him the stone we have (with the little ridge like "feet"), but I'd imagine it wouldn't make a difference....See MoreHow often do you use your Miele steam oven?
Comments (6)I looked at the Miele website & the manuals for the two steam ovens listed there--these are newer than when we were making our appliance decisions over a year ago. For either one, it does not appear that you can select anything but 100% steam. I do not see any way in the manual to select convection only, zero steam or any other steam. It would seem that Miele's use of "convection" means that the heat source is not radiant but surrounds the food (with the steam). The manual says that you can change temperatures, however, the manual also states that your cooking containers must be heat resistant up to 212 degrees, implying that 212 is the maximum, which is consistent with 100% steam. Our Gagg combi-steam has one knob for temperature and another knob for selecting steam at 100%, 80%, 60%, 30% or zero. If you select the steam % & then click the temperature knob one click to the left for the "suggested temperature" setting, it will set a default temperature for it, 210 degrees for 100% steam on up to 330 degrees for zero percent steam. However, oven temperature may be selected from 85 degrees F up to 450 degrees....See MoreUser
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