Electrolux EW30EW55PS vs GE Cafe CT9050SHSS

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.

As a premium oven, it has lots of features to make cooking efficient. It uses true convection, which distributes heat evenly throughout the cooking cavity. Additionally, it has multi-rack settings which allow using multiple racks while still having an even result throughout the cavity. The broiler is large and offers good heat coverage, allowing to do things like broiling burgers fast and efficiently.

This oven is equipped with a Wi-Fi transceiver, so you can remotely control it and receive notifications to your smartphone.

The oven has two cleaning modes: pyrolytic and steam cleaning. Steam cleaning can be used to quickly clean off minor stains, while pyrolytic cleaning is meant for significant stains liked burned grease. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that the racks can be left in while performing the cleaning cycles, something rarely found in other ovens.

This is a multi-rack oven where one of the racks has wheels that help sliding it easily.

This oven has a large notification strip of lights which notifies when the oven is preheated by slowly fading from one side to the other.

If used with Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant, this oven can be controlled with voice commands . This is useful if you are busy doing something else but need to change settings or tell it to start preheating.