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Which oven is best?
6 key questions for oven buyers.
Which oven to buy?
When looking for a new oven, you probably want to know which oven is best for your kitchen and needs. What is a conventional oven? What is a convection oven? Is a convection microwave oven worth it? What about a steam oven? These questions might float through your mind while exploring your options.
Most of our ovens, for example, are convection ovens, meaning they are equipped with a fan to evenly spread hot air throughout the oven. Cleaning the oven is a tiresome, thankless task. Opt for a self-cleaning oven, also known as a pyrolytic oven, to save time and hassle.
Browse our oven guide below to find out what to consider when buying a new appliance.
1. Which type of oven is best for you?
No matter your kitchen layout or personal preferences, our built-in ovens provide the latest technologies for perfect cooking results. Choose from our impressive range of ovens that offer different cooking methods, from baking to roasting and even steaming, or better yet, combined in one. Read on to find out more.
2. Which oven dimensions fit your cutout?
Built-in ovens can be integrated either underneath a worktop, or more ergonomically, into a cupboard or wall at eye level.
Measure your cutout or look in the user manual of your current oven as a starting point. Here's some general advice about oven sizes.
- Standard oven size: 60 x 60cm (w x h)
- Compact oven size: 60 x 45cm (w x h)
Pro tip: A compact oven can be combined with a warming drawer to fit a standard oven size cutout.
3. Which heating types suit your cooking preferences?
Ovens cook food in different ways. For example, convection ovens generate heat and circulates the hot air to cook and bake, while steam ovens use steam in addition to hot air. Learn about the different types and combinations of cooking methods offered to pick the best oven for your daily cooking needs.
What is a convection oven?
A convection oven evenly distributes heat throughout the interior with a fan to cook your dishes evenly. Our ovens come with advanced convection settings, such as 3D Hotair and 4D Hotair, to circulate heat evenly across three or four racks simultaneously. On top of this, they also offer conventional heat (no fan), bottom heat and grill settings for example.
What is a steam oven?
A steam oven also cooks and reheats a wide variety of foods and dishes, from fish and poultry to vegetables with steam in a light yet delicious way that preserves nutrients. Our steam ovens allow you to steam cook an entire meal – vegetables, fish, potatoes – on up to three racks at once.
Pro tip: An added steam feature on some of our convection ovens let you add blasts of steam to bake, for example, crusty bread.
What is a convection microwave oven?
A convection microwave oven is a convection oven that comes with a microwave setting. The multi-functional appliance can be used to cook food as well as to heat it up quickly, so you don't need a separate microwave. Activating the microwave while cooking further speeds up the cooking process. Efficient, space saving and convenient!
4. What about a self-cleaning oven?
What is a self-cleaning oven? We offer two types of self-cleaning ovens.
The first type of self-cleaning oven comes with Pyrolytic self-cleaning, a cleaning programme that uses high temperatures to burn off food and grease residue on the interior. When the programme is finished, all you have to do is wipe out the remaining ash – no harsh chemicals necessary!
Another type features EcoClean Direct, where the back wall of the oven is covered with a special coating that directly absorbs grease.
5. What smart oven features make life easier?
A WiFi oven can be accessed and operated via an app on your smartphone. Our smart ovens, which work with the Home Connect app, offer clever features that make daily life more enjoyable.
- Convenience: Preheat the oven on your way home.
- Safety: Double check it's switched off after leaving.
- Precision: Select a recipe in the app – send the settings to your WiFi-enabled oven.
- Support: Remote Diagnostics allows a Bosch technician to investigate an issue from afar.
Look forward to new features in the future as well.
6. Which extra oven features or accessories do you need?
Advances in oven design and technologies take cooking and baking to the next level. Here are some of our highlights.
Telescopic rails: For easy and safe handling, telescopic oven rails help you safely remove baking trays, dishes and racks from the oven.
PerfectBake: The PerfectBake sensor monitors the moisture content of baked goods, and turns off the oven automatically when done. So every cake is baked to perfection.
PerfectRoast: With up to three measuring points, our PerfectRoast meat probe measures the temperature of all kinds of meats, for perfectly-cooked meat at every time.
What is the best oven brand?
What is the most reliable oven brand? How long do ovens last? What is the best oven to buy? Who makes the best ovens? It's natural to want a high quality appliance that will last for years to come. At Bosch, we offer uncompromising quality, technical perfection and maximum-possible reliability – as demonstrated in many independent product tests.
What is the most energy efficient oven?
How much energy does an oven consume? It varies from model to model as well as the settings and temperatures you frequently use.
Generally speaking, most modern ovens consume around 2.4kWh per hour on medium to high heat. Our most energy efficient ovens use convection heat.
Which oven is best for baking?
Crusty bread, moist cake, tender biscuits: having the best oven for baking is a must for passionate bakers. All of our ovens are designed for baking, so it ultimately comes down to your wants and kitchen space. If you frequently bake large batches of, for example, muffins or biscuits, an XL or XXL oven provides extra space for multiple trays at once. Features such as PerfectBake or added steam are the icing on the cake.
