I'm Steve. This is Fran. Today,
we're talking about steam ovens. Do you have a steam
oven? I don't own one.
I've definitely used them many times here in the showrooms,
but I don't own one. I have a steam oven.
I think the thing could wake the dead. Like, this morning,
I, I took this trilled up piece of chicken.
Should I serve it to my daughter or not? I'm like, you
know, I'm like,
I don't feel like cooking another piece of chicken. So,
I put it ten minutes in a steam mode with the rice.
She likes rice with garlic powder for whatever reason.
Came out completely flavorful.
I even tried it, so in case anything happens later, you
know. We all grapple with those decisions with our children.
So Let's say I I I I love steam.
That's my New Year's resolution is to be able to cook
everything, Misty Melvin.
I typically just reheat, make rice, and some basic stuff.
But I wanna do what the chefs do, you know,
big brownies and all that other stuff in it.
But And that's a cool thing with steam oven. You know,
you hear the word steam and you often think about just
vegetables and rice and things like that,
but truly you can do anything in these.
You can cook brownies, like you said,
which you never really think about cookies, but meats, roasts,
different proteins and pork, turkeys, things like that.
So they're really versatile.
I love steam. I think it's a great way to cook,
and definitely think you can do a lot with them. So today,
we're gonna talk about really five kind of unique steam ovens
on the market, four that we really like.
One that we don't necessarily like that.
But we'll get to that.
But there is a lot of different brands out there,
and many of the others are pretty similar.
So we tried to pick ones that stand apart for mostly
positive, maybe a Yeah. There's one there's one really, really.
This
I wanna say one to three very good ones. Awesome.
So let's start. Let's go with Wolf.
I have a wolf, but I have the old one.
The new one I think can crisp. They've got a crisp setting.
I've got the old one.
It's plumbed. By the way, I didn't like the idea of
plumbing, but, I've never really run out of water in a
cycle, and I've used it for up to, like, twenty minutes.
I don't think it's a problem. Very intuitive, you know,
you get the at least the old one.
You get the button. You know,
you can control the modes with the button.
You can control with the timer.
The only thing with steam ovens is don't put a fire alarm next to your steam.
That's
a good thing. Pro tip right there. Pro tip. Don't put your,
don't put your fire alarm next to your steam oven.
Chris a good way to wake your kid up.
But I really like the wolf and I think the new one's even
better because they get the plum versions.
It's a little bit bigger,
not And you'll see on some of the other ones we talked about,
they've gotten bigger this way, but the Wolf, same size,
but the interior has gotten wider.
So they've definitely increased their cubic footage.
They added that Wolf Court May that you see in their wall
ovens and their rain dual fuel ranges now.
So really nice guided cooking there. And like I said,
they hang up. You have the option now plumb versus
nonplum. So what that really just means is, you know,
some of them you just fill up a water reservoir and put it in
there and it uses that.
Some plumb directly to a water line,
which is definitely more convenient,
but definitely harder to install and maybe replacement
down the line too. So pros and cons, I'd say to Yeah.
Probably both of them. Yeah.
But you're you probably were gonna replace the cabinet by
the time you, you know, steam,
you don't get a lot of repair on steam. I like the old wolf.
The new one with gourmet would make it a lot easier for me to,
like, bridge that. I want to cook with everything thing.
So I like it now. And it's probably even better, the new ones.
By giving an a. Yeah. Absolutely. Definitely an a.
One of the most popular and best ones out there. Next,
let's go with Mila.
I, you know, they they were, I think, brought steam in
residential cooking, before anybody. Yeah.
And the master chef is still the most intuitive for me as
is, you know, hit this button if you want to do this.
Nothing easier. You've got all sorts of models, plumb, non plumb.
And what those controls too, what I love too is, like,
they they have that master chef,
which is really nice guided cooking,
but also what's cool with there is the multi step cooking.
So if you put two different kinds of foods, like,
a vegetable and even a protein or something like that in
there. You can set it so it co in stages automatically.
So really kinda makes it nice and easy to cook with the
steam, which is really, really nice.
And like you said, tons of different sizes.
They have the traditional shorter one.
Now they also have a larger one that's more similar to the size
of a regular wall oven, definitely not the same
capacity, but a little bit larger than normal there.
They also have steam assisted olive wallabies too,
which is different, different between steam assisted.
Steam is, steam is more of a finisher, you know,
of like you want to finish the top of a creme brulee or not a
creebela or a lasagna, hard in the cheese, or make bread,
but it won't cook a meal and steam.
I really like speaks. Yeah. In terms of intuitive, it's an S.
In terms of functionality, I think there's one that's
better, but I would say what do you think?
Yeah. Well, listen.
We have super high standards as we've shown in the other tier
video. So let's I think a solid day for sure.
Solid.
K. Next, let's go with thermador.
I don't think you're going to get the functionality of the
other two, what you're going to get is size.
You have more combinations of thermador in their Not just,
not just in the wall, but,
their pro ranges in forty eight and sixty,
you can get an optional steam oven. I'm not sure of that.
I don't think the functionality is on the, on the par with,
miele Wolf, but you do get size. So if you wanna put you
know, your thanksgiving turkey bird in there.
You can do that on this piece and cook it in steam.
I just don't think I just think it's a harder interface. Yeah. Nonplumb.
Definitely, you know,
doesn't have the intuitive controls like you said.
You're not really getting that guided cooking much more scale
down controls. One thing on their pro series that, you know,
just the luck is they give you that traditional pro style look
with the knobs that some people like. But, yeah, definitely,
form functionality,
I'd say not there compared to like a wolf for a meal.
Yeah. But you do get size. I I'd give it a solid b. Yep.
Alright. Next, let's go with Gaggingau. Gaggingau is the best. Yeah.
And not just that. You know what it does well? It it,
gets rid of the odors better than anything else. Like,
if you cook salmon, which I did, I blew salmon in my wolf.
I cooked it wrong. But you do have to get rid of it.
You have to clean it out to get the odor out.
Whereas GAGgenau is more,
I think they have a converter or something in there.
But this is the only way we control the percentage of steam.
This is not going to be as intuitive as a meal or a wolf,
but if you know what you're doing,
You can control a percentage of steam.
This is just a wonderfully made
product. This is probably the best steam of it on the market.
I'll be it also the most expensive and probably not as
intuitive as a a lot familiar. But like you said,
what you can do on it from a purely chef's perspective as
well or someone that loves to cook, I mean,
there's really no comparison there.
The other part of steam ovens is cleanability. Definitely,
some maintenance there that you gotta descale and clean Gagonel
has made that kind of really easy.
They have like a a self cleaning system with cartridges
as well. You can clean them that way.
So they made that part easier as well.
Really the unique, probably the Like, I have to agree.
They're probably the best on the market. Yeah.
Definitely the best.
But again, you know, it's easy to give it an s,
kinda like a a better car over a worse one. But, but, You
know, it's more expensive. The styling is different.
You're either gonna like it or you're not gonna like it.
But, you know, you get good choices with,
I think Miller and wolf,
but if you're looking for something and you really this
speaks to someone who really knows what they're doing or
really wants to know what they're doing, and that's the
time. Gagon knows it. That's that's the s for me. Yep.
I go with an s there.
And finally, on a different end of the spectrum here,
we're gonna finish with Jenair.
One twenty? Yeah.
And that's kind of a big thing. Feature wise, not much there.
But that one twenty volts count. I know they do sell, but,
are they inexpensive?
I don't know. We don't sell that.
They're pretty inexpensive and, you know,
one of pros they'll tell you.
And what we're talking about is again,
really all of these are two twenty volts.
So more power just like you get in your wall oven,
which you really need to get up to temperature faster.
To truly be able to cook at those higher temperatures.
Genaire is really a microwave plug in in that kind of voltage
there. And what they'll tell you is, you know,
it's easier to replace.
Maybe you have a built in microwave and you wanna replace
it with a steam oven or something like that.
But definitely difficult.
I think to do the cooking that you're gonna get with really
most other brands on the market.
I would say this is a a c or a low b at best. Yeah.
And go with the C in general.
I just don't think it has the features and with the power
there. I just don't think it has a lot to offer.
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