Which speed oven is most like a regular oven?

7 years ago

Thinking that a speed oven plus single wall oven might solve some planning dilemmas in our new kitchen.

Realistically, we would be using the speed oven as a traditional oven and rarely as a microwave. Our current traditional oven gets turned on several times a week - for roasting veggies, fish, making mac & cheese from scratch, etc. Plus, I do a LOT of baking. Pies, cakes, etc, several times a week. It is rare that we would ever use the oven for traditional frozen food (like a frozen lasagne or pizza) or reheating.

I'm looking at reviews of speed ovens and 95% of them are people using them as fancy microwaves - frozen lasagna type stuff. So their glowing reviews aren't really relevant to my needs. I'm trying to weed through the reviews to find the speed oven that works really well as a standard oven.

I realize most speed ovens have a "convection oven" feature. But so did our microwave in the 1980s. It was still a microwave - buttons and features like a microwave.

I would like a speed oven that involves the least adjustment from a regular oven. I would love to find one that had a totally traditional oven feature (like, not just convection -- but a true oven) so i could just use all my baking recipes without having to re-tool them for convection purposes. If the best i'm going to get is a convection feature, i'd like a speed oven that at least operates like a traditional oven when it's in convection mode (versus a microwave with convection feature).

Everyone on this site keeps saying that each speed oven does different things -- but none of the manufacturers make it clear what those difference are.

Can anyone help a girl out?

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plllog

7 years ago

Ah. Kimg1114 had a good suggestion.

Miele PureLine SensorTronic Series H6600BMX user manual says that it does have bottom heat. The combination settings seem limited for a speed oven, but it looks like it might do your job very well. I didn't look at the other models.

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Kim G
7 years ago
Look at Miele. Convection/Non Convection/broiler/combi micro-bake and about every mode in between. I use it and my combi Steam as my everyday goto ovens.
plllog
7 years ago
The oven part of speed ovens is convection. A fan which blows hot air. Some also have a broiler of sorts or some other form of top heat. It might be out there, but I've never heard of one that has a bottom heat feature ("traditional oven"). Same for combi-steam ovens, so don't let that idea lead you astray.

Some baking works fine in a convection oven. Some does not. Breads and cakes are probably best. Pies, probably. Cookies can be done but the reports I've seen are about a dozen cookies, not a full sheet.

What speed ovens do is SPEED. If you don't have a desire for combination oven and microwave cooking to speed up the results, a speed oven doesn't make much sense for what you've described. You can get a smaller traditional oven, and put a little countertop microwave out of your way somewhere for the few times you want it.

I use the microwave part of my speed oven on a double portion of lasagna I've frozen when I want it fast, but it's better reheated in a regular oven. What SPEED is good for is cooking a whole chicken in half the time. It's still not as good, in my opinion, as the long way in a regular oven, but it's fine, and if you need to get the family to the table and out the door fast, it's an option. That's what the raves here have centered on, or baking a potato that tastes baked rather than zapped in a short time. Any oven can reheat lasagna well. It's one of the easiest things to freeze and rewarm well.
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i have a bosch benchmark convection microwave, model HMC80251, which has 9 'speed' programs (called Auto Chef) - so just a small fraction of the number that Miele or Advantium have. Bosch calls it a speed oven. I have not yet used Auto Chef.

However, it does have, aside from the microwave magnetron, a top heating element, a bottom heating element and an element next to the convection fan (behind the rear wall). So it absolutely can bake and broil. I have been particularly pleased with Pizza Mode, which uses both the top and bottom elements - makes great pizza without a pizza stone.

Biggest drawback so far - very hard to clean the interior well.

Which speed oven is most like a regular oven?

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