hvtech42: I agree with what you said about the swing, and I can also see why some would have an issue with opening from the left and essentially having to go around the door (unless open completely... which I would imagine you would do most of the time anyway). My current ovens are 13 yrs old. They are horrible. They don't seal properly, and the temp varies widely and - more troubling - inconsistently. I have had them serviced multiple times, but it seems nothing can be done. I honestly never know whether a dish will take an hour or 90 minutes. I cook extensively for family and entertain on a regular basis, so I am looking forward to a dependable oven.

We have an Elux Wave Touch single wall oven 3+ years old. (I know you asked about double ovens) It's an okay oven. The two racks roll out very nicely. The timer is plenty loud for us. Things do not brown evenly, although it heats evenly. (I tested it with oven thermometers so it won't do any good to complain to Elux) The electronics cooling fan runs from the minute the oven is engaged, until it cools down. Fan is noisy and blows hot air into the kitchen. Ugh... I guess they all do that, nowadays. Over the holidays, it was run on 425° to 450° for a little over an hour, and the hidden heating element left its mark....the faded outline. I don't know if other ovens will do that after an hour or hour-and-a-half max at high heat, but I am not impressed. Or pleased. Grrrrrrrrr..... It's a bit of a nasty mess in the pic below, but you should have seen it BEFORE I hand-scrubbed it . . . because one does not dare run the self-clean feature in any of these ovens too often for running the risk of killing the computer inside them. Nice thing is the door completely comes off this oven, which made the cleaning a lot easier. I didn't even have to have hubby help me remove it.

I have a single benchmark oven, side opening, for a year +. My probe stopped working after using it approximately 4 times. When I plugged the probe in, the oven was not recognizing it. I emailed Bosch and they told me to do the following, which worked. With the oven off, turn off the main breaker, insert the probe for 1 minute, remove the probe and turn power back on at breaker. I just did this today. After doing this, which is supposed to reset it, I plugged the probe into the oven and it recognized it. I didn't try it with actual cooking yet. They told me I would have to call for service if this didn't work. Good luck!

We have the Bosch set with speed oven on top, side door opening oven on bottom. I absolutely love both ovens! The side door opening makes cooking almost effortless. There is no awkward reaching or bending and this is from someone with two burn marks on my arm in almost the same place from using our old range! We did not get the double ovens because I felt we did not need the extra oven space plus we use the microwave a lot. Also have the large Breville toaster oven that can be used for extra oven space if needed. We considered Miele as their ovens are beautiful but this was pushing us way over budget so not an option. Good luck with decision, took us at least 6 months to figure out! Btw food comes out awesome in both ovens, obviously very important too.