I have a 30" Bosch induction cooktop with a conventional convection oven below, but it was very difficult to find an oven that would fit. In the end, we had to get a European brand (smaller top to bottom). We went with Fagor and it's an excellent oven and both units work{{gwi:807}} fine. I didn't even look at the warranty (whether it would be voided by this configuration), just at the fit. I should add, there were no good slidein induction ranges available at the time. -- if I were doing it now, thats the way i'd lean.

This post was edited by sjhockeyfan on Mon, Jan 19, 15 at 12:52

Thank you for responding sjhockeyfan. Hope to hear more ideas too.

Is there anyone that has the Miele induction range?

Maybe I could put the conventional oven in the peninsula too, next to the steam oven?

Don't get a 27" oven, you won't save much space and those are only made for retrofit purposes, not renovations or new construction. Choices are already limited compared to 30", and down the road finding a replacement could be tougher than other sizes.

I doubt anyone has the Miele induction range yet, it just came out.

I concur with sjhockeyfan about the induction range. Get the Miele, Bosch, JennAir, GE, or Electrolux induction range and put the steam oven elsewhere.

maryil: " I am very interested in the Miele Convection Steam Oven, and having a 30" induction cook top. I would like to have a conventional oven as well, but not really a 30", a 27" would be fine."

As you have discovered, there are great differences between both the actual vertical dimensions of various cooktops and ovens and -- just as importantly -- the clearances that specific models of cooktop require below, or that certain models of oven require above, the appliance.

We have had an arrangement such as the one you desire, but not with the brands that you have been looking at, for almost 15 years now. From our (possibly obsolete) experience, the LG induction cooktop is the skinniest induction cooktop that you are likely to find. It is about the thickness of an Apple MacPookPro laptop of 2008 or so vintage.

Part of its secret is that the exhaust for the air that the cooling fan blows over the electronics when the cooktop is in operation is at the rear of the cooktop above the surface (in the stainless trim). The exhaust slots are very skinny: about the thickness of a U.S. nickel, but they seem adequate to the task. Because the volume of the room is for all intents and purposes infinite for the purpose of accepting the cooling airflow, considerations of saturating the exhaust area as could happen for units that exhaust into the enclosed volume beneath the cooktop are moot.

Among wall ovens, we found that the Bosch convection (not steam) ovens were a few inches shorter, top-to-bottom, than the other brands that we measured or checked the specs for. That would allow you to mount a Bosch lower (farther from the underside of the cooktop), but you then would be stooping lower to lift your Thanksgiving turkey out of the oven as your guests salivate. Because we had no problem with clearance below a cooktop, we used the compactness of the Bosch wall oven to mount it high, with a shallow drawer under the oven for hard to store items like cookie sheets and pizza stones.

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This post was edited by herring_maven on Mon, Jan 19, 15 at 18:17

There are several induction ranges that have been well received! Given your space constraints and that you are willing to consider a Miele range, you may want to consider other ranges as well.