Bosch HBL8451UC vs Electrolux EW30EW55PS

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.

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.