Electric Speed Ovens

Are you remodeling your kitchen and considering a specialty oven like steam or speed? Is your day-to-day too busy to spend hours and hours in the kitchen cooking? A speed oven is the choice for you.

Before you start to browse, make sure to measure your space again and again. Most speed ovens are smaller than conventional wall ovens, ranging from 24-30 inches wide, so keep that in mind as you shop.

How Speed Ovens Work

Speed ovens combine microwave technology with a convection oven, saving kitchen space by turning two appliances into one. Some speed ovens also contain an electric grill for broiling capabilities or even a toaster feature, so you get three cooking types in one appliance!

Typically, when baking, you’ll use about 90 percent convection and 10 percent microwave power, while roasting dense foods will come out to about 70 percent convection and 30 percent microwave, so keep that in mind as you’re preparing your meals.

If you want to just use the microwave function or only the oven, you can! Just select the right settings for whichever you need.

Speed Oven Benefits

Other than their space-saving capabilities, speed ovens bring other advantages to the dinner table.

Speed ovens reduce cooking time by approximately 40 percent (2-4 times faster in 120V models or 4-8x faster in 240V models), so you can focus on the important things. Speed ovens even defrost quicker, which can save you the panic of forgetting to take your meals out of the freezer the night before.

Speed ovens let you cook using little to no fat and reheats food without dehydrating it to the point of rubber-like results like a regular microwave will sometimes do. The combination of cooking technologies retains more nutrients, proteins, vitamins, and mineral salts for tastier results, and it saves energy too!

You can use the same dish to prepare and serve the food; just remember to avoid metal or crystal containers!

Features to Simplify Your Cooking Even More

The combination of different cooking styles might be enough to win you over, but here are a couple features that will make your cooking in a speed oven even easier:

• Touch controls are essential because they give you control over every aspect of your oven (and whether you use the microwave or baking functions independently or together).
• Programmable settings are a major time saver because you can program your oven to remember your favorite meals—so all you have to do is press a button.
• Pre-programmed recipes help you take guesswork out figuring out cooking times, which will differ depending on which cooking function you choose.
• Warming or proofing mode give you more versatility; don’t worry about the food cooling before the meal or not having fresh bread—your oven does it all for you.

Ready to Shop?

Time to finish your remodel and browse our selection of built-in electric speed ovens in the styles you love and the brands you trust. Still not sure? Check out our appliance buying guide for an overview, or contact our experts with questions—we’re always happy to hear from you!