GE JT3000SFSS vs Bosch HBL8451UC

With a price tag below $900, this oven offers excellent conventional cooking performance. It can easily do well on all the regular oven-cooking tasks. Additionally, it has several useful extra features usually found in premium ovens, such as self-cleaning features or programmable timers.

The oven has all the basic modes that most people need: it has a regular baking mode, a broiling mode, a bread-proofing mode, and a warming mode.

This oven has a large 5 cubic feet cooking cavity which you can use with two independent cooking racks. The six possible rack positions will help accommodating cookware with various shapes and sizes.

The control panel can be locked to prevent accidental enabling or accidental setting changes.

The oven has a built-in delay bake option, which allows you to program the oven to start cooking at a pre-programmed time.

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

The oven has two cleaning cycles: a steam cycle, for cleaning small spills and light dirt, and a pyrolytic cycle, which is more intense and removes even burned-up grease.

The broiler takes only 4 minutes to preheat, an impressive result that outperforms even some premium ovens.

The powerful nine level broiler can be set to various temperatures based on your needs.

The GE JT3000SFSS can be bought in 4 different colors: white, black, slate, and stainless steel.

Contrarily to what happens with some other ovens, here there’s no exposed heating element at the bottom, which really facilitates cleaning everything.

The oven comes with interior lights, which help monitoring the food while it's being cooked.

The cleaning cycles can be programmed to start with a delay, so the oven can clean itself while you’re not at home.

The oven has a brushed stainless steel exterior with very polished details and clean lines, achieving a very good looking overall design. Particular, the control panel and the door handle integrate perfectly.

This Bosch oven has 12 specialized cooking modes, including bread proofing, pizza baking, and convection roasting. It will automatically do temperature conversion when using convection cooking and lets you preset your favorite settings. It even has a Sabbath mode. All these modes work flawlessly.

It has European style convection, meaning that there are a fan and an additional heating element in the back of the oven. The oven's performance is great both in classical baking and convection baking with very even heat distribution and no cold spots. The result is even cooking with low risk of burnt food.

Due to having a pyrolytic cleaning mode, this oven is easy to clean after using.

Thanks to the big window and bright interior lights, the food can be seen clearly while it's being cooked. There is also a meat probe that will output the food's inner temperature to the oven screen.

This oven has a QuietClose feature which stops the door hinges for a soft close, no matter how hard you slam the door.