Electrolux EW30EW55PS vs GE PT9550SFSS

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.

This oven is equipped with two true convection fans, which allow for even temperature distribution throughout the oven's cavity.

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.

The oven can be set to Sabbath mode, so that it can be used while complying with kosher cooking practices.

You can pre-program up to three of your favorite recipe settings, which facilitates use every time you want to cook those recipes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This oven produces acceptable results while used in conventional baking mode.

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.

Because of the two bright light bulbs and the blue interior, the food is clearly visible through the large window.

This oven has a total of 4.8 cubic feet of useful capacity, that can be distributed among its seven racks.

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.

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.

Both oven spaces have true convection fans, meaning that there is a heating element located at the back of each oven. The heat from the elements is then blown through the convection fans. This results in a more efficient and even cooking and is an ideal solution when doing multiple rack cooking.

Both cavities have a capacity of 5 cubic feet, which makes this one of the largest ovens in its price range and allows it to have six different rack positions for each half of the oven. It comes with four regular racks and a single sliding rack.

While at first look the controls might seem a bit messy, they are pretty straightforward and shouldn’t be problematic to understand.

All the buttons and the display can be locked for safety reasons.

This oven has a probe that can measure the internal temperature of food item and signal it to shut off once the desired temperature is reached.

The oven has two cleaning cycles. A steam cycle that is meant for cleaning small spills and a pyrolytic cleaning cycle for intense, thorough cleaning.

The oven can be controlled via the GE Brillion app. This way you can do things such as start preheating the oven remotely or get notifications when the food is ready.

The upper oven has a LED notification strip that displays the preheating progress. This allows examining the status of the oven from a distance.

The oven does an outstanding job when it comes to roasting meat. It performs close to more expensive units, producing juicy meat with a crisp skin.

It is possible to use the broiling function while the ovens doors are closed, which avoids smoking your kitchen during the process.

For lots of double ovens, the sound of the fans running can get very loud, luckily that isn’t an issue for this unit.

There are 11 baking modes to choose from: convection bake, convection multi-rack bake, convection broil on high, low, and crisp, convection roast, traditional bake, traditional broil on high and low, bread-proofing mode, and a warming mode.

Each cavity has three bright bulbs, so that the food can be easily monitored.

It comes in two color options: stainless steel and black.