Hi to everyone, been reading the many great forums. I fell in love with the Wolf steam oven...looking for less expensive options. Kitchen Aid makes a single or double wall oven with piped in steam and dual fan for great convection/air circulation. But there are some really bad reviews on other sites for it (self-cleaning is actually self-destruct, class-action, product recall). Does anyone have one? Recently bought one? Any other options? Thanks.

I own the Wolf Steam Combi CSO024. Save yourself a headache and DON'T BUY IT! This oven gave us problems from the beginning. Sometimes steam wouldn't come out. The controls didn't always respond. After being installed for three months, it completely died. Over 3 months later, it's still broken. The Wolf certified repair shop has been at our house 4 times and replaced the same part twice and the control board. It still dies with a loud POP and blows a fuse when they power it up after trying a new part. Wolf is unwilling to replace it. They've just ordered yet ANOTHER part. I've been without a steam oven for longer than I've owed it now. I didn't have the oven for the holidays, and Wolf couldn't care less. I predict my warranty will be expired before they fix it. I just bought a SubZero and Wolf cooktop as well. I really expected better customer service. I will never buy another Wolf appliance.

1. If you search in the Appliances forum, you'll find a number of posts from one guy who has the Sharp, and sells them, and thinks they're terrific. 2. Lots have the Advantium (inc. me, but I have the Monogram Pro 240 version). Plenty of info about that, and the OTRs in the Appliance forum too. I love my Advantium. I'm not so enamored of speed cooking, but it's a truly excellent microwave, and works very well in oven mode. It works fine in speed mode as well, but I have yet to find things that I wouldn't rather spend the extra half hour on to do the old fashioned way. If I had X number of minutes to get the kids to practice, I'm sure the speed mode would be my best friend. 3. Yes, consensus is the Breville is the best toaster oven. More info about that in Appliances too. :) I have the Gaggenau combi-steam. The amount of steam escaping really isn't a big issue, though I suppose it might be if you had a uberairtight house, or high humidity. I'm not sure you need the toaster oven except for actually making toast, or a lot of family members all making different things at once. I have a conventional oven, combi-steam and Advantium, and keep a toaster oven in the small appliances drawer for toasting bagels, et al. When we take it out, we put it on the island, handy to the breakfast seating. I use one of the smaller ovens (both the Advantium and combi- do convection oven mode) if I need a small oven, never the toaster oven. Though the Breville is supposed to be a very good oven.

Thank you ALL for your input. I met the installer yesterday, and it seems that I'll need to do that oversized stainless drawer front on the drawer beneath the ovens in order to make the combi over conventional set-up work. The drawer front will need to be about 13" high, but I think it will look good... like a warming drawer or microwave drawer... especially as I can order the matching Miele or Wolf handle for it. Do you think that sounds like a decent aesthetic solution? If I go with the combi/oven as opposed to double ovens, the installer mentioned one more thing. Wolf does have the name recognition over Miele, and I will likely be selling my home in 3 - 4 years... so resale is a consideration. What do you think on that? Frankly, I think I prefer the Miele at this point (especially after your comments). However, the preference isn't strong. Also, plumbed vs not.... I really don't like the idea of a water line behind the oven that can get gunked up and is essentially just one more thing to go wrong. I don't see a disadvantage to unplumbed other than having to fill the reservoir, which is no big deal at all to me. Am I missing something? Here is a pic of my current ovens and the drawer beneath so you can get a feel for my issue. As I said, that cutout is too large, so I'll need to put a small piece of trim beneath the new convection oven and make that bottom drawer front 30" wide and about 13" tall.