GE PT9550SFSS vs GE Cafe CT9050SHSS

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.

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.