This versatile and high-tech wall oven is a perfect solution for those who are looking for a premium-looking oven with some excellent cooking capabilities. Additionally, it features an intuitive, state-of-the-art control panel.
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Pros
Pro Excellent overall value
This premium-looking electric oven features a variety of useful cooking modes, programmable cooking capabilities, and even some advanced self-cleaning algorithms. Combined with a relatively high capacity, these features make this oven very valuable, even for its high price point.
Pro Dual convection fans for even heat distribution
This oven is equipped with two true convection fans, which allow for even temperature distribution throughout the oven's cavity.
Pro Versatile functionality
The oven can do practically anything. It has 11 different modes – baking, broiling, roasting with or without convection, slow cooking, defrosting, dehydrating, bread proofing, and multi-stage cooking.
Pro Has a Sabbath mode
The oven can be set to Sabbath mode, so that it can be used while complying with kosher cooking practices.
Pro Can be programmed
You can pre-program up to three of your favorite recipe settings, which facilitates use every time you want to cook those recipes.
Pro Convenient temperature monitoring
The oven has a probe that allows monitoring the internal temperatures of the roast without opening the doors. It can also be programmed to automatically switch off the oven once a desired temperature is reached.
Pro Attractive looks
This is a stainless steel oven with a large glass door and a totally black control panel with no visible controls until the oven is turned on.
Pro Can do multi-stage cooking automatically
You can program the oven for various cooking steps, for example, you can set it to start with roasting and finish with a broil, or just set the oven to change temperatures midway through the recipe.
Pro Quick broiler preheat
The broiler preheats in under six minutes, which is a fairly good result compared to other competitors that need up to 10 minutes to reach the temperature acceptable for broiling.
Pro Decent baking mode
This oven produces acceptable results while used in conventional baking mode.
Pro Functional racks
Each of the included racks has a built-in handle so that it can be removed easily. Additionally, there is a glide rack that slides out easily and can withstand up to 50 pounds of weight when slid out.
Pro Food is visible while it's being cooked
Because of the two bright light bulbs and the blue interior, the food is clearly visible through the large window.
Pro Fairly large capacity
This oven has a total of 4.8 cubic feet of useful capacity, that can be distributed among its seven racks.
Pro Clear, user-friendly interface
The oven has a design feature called 'Wave-Touch.' It allows the interface to display only the buttons that are applicable to the selected mode. The result is a very sleek and uncluttered control panel.
Pro Decent pyrolytic cleaning capabilities
This oven is capable of pyrolytic cleaning, which is effortless to use, but also time-consuming and results in odors. Electrolux minimizes these problems by implementing three different time settings depending on the filth level and by having an integrated catalytic converter that eliminates unwanted odors and particles.
Cons
Con Preheats slowly
The oven needs around 16 minutes to preheat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is not a good result for an oven in this price range. However, you can save a couple of minutes of preheat time using the rapid preheat function.
Con Racks require manual cleaning
The racks need to be cleaned manually as they can’t be left in while the cleaning cycle is active.
Con Lacks steam cleaning
It only has pyrolytic cleaning capabilities, which is useful, but takes a long time to finish. Steam cleaning could be convenient for quicker, less thorough cleaning.
Con Fingerprints are very noticeable
The black glossy control panel quickly and easily gets lots of noticeable fingerprints.
Con Has only one color option
The wall oven is only available in a stainless steel finish. While this is the latest style in the industry, it may not go well will all kitchen interiors.
Con Factory reset button is hard to access
There is no easy way to access the complete reset button, as it is situated at the back of the oven.
Con Can't be accessed remotely
This unit has no remote access functions at all, which is somewhat surprising for an oven in this prince range.