The condense button floods the oven with cold water which disposes of some of the steam prior to opening the door. But, even with this process a lot of stem escapes out of the top of the oven when you open the door. I would not even consider mounting this oven low. My husband opens the door without condensing and the steam that escapes from the top is immense. I would hate to think about what that might do to a face.

Oops, sorry I should have looked at that installation manual. Thanks everyone! 2LittleFishies - yes, I saw your post. This is an older model and the Chef Series. There are two local appliance stores that have them available as they are changing displays. Both are offering them at about a $1600 price, but I think I have plenty of room to negotiate. Not sure if I'm as shrewd a negotiator as you! You got an amazing deal for the Masterchef model. I'm also trying to verify warranty.

Plumorchard, Yes, we did mount it under the counter and although the height of the control panel is not ideal, it works OK. It would have been too disruptive (and expensive) to install a wall cabinet for the oven. We installed the shallow Miele warming drawer under the oven and they look very nice together. There are only two of us at home. We have the oven on every day. It heats very quickly and cooks evenly. We are managing fine with the speed oven as our only oven (no separate microwave). We have no regrets. I have some photos of the oven but cannot work out an easy way to post them on this forum.

It's final cabinet layout time and I am questioning every decision I have made over an 18 month planning process. I went back to the appliance showroom yesterday to look at the 30" Wolf wall oven that I plan to mount under the counter away from the stove top area. I think the control panel will start about 3" under the counter. Has anyone else done this? If so, have you had any problems being able to view the controls? Also- did you use a 24" deep cab, or did you extend depth to 26" or 27"? The install specs seem to require an extended depth unless the back panel of the cab is removed. This oven will be on the same wall as the Sub Z 48" counter depth. I looked carefully at the installation yesterday and it seems like the most integrated look of a wood paneled Sub Z requires a 2-3" build out from standard cab depth. So, I was thinking that it might make sense to make the whole cab run in this area about 27" deep.