Oven Buying Guide
WHICH OVEN IS BEST FOR ME?
Find the best oven for your cooking and baking adventures
Have you been wondering: Which is the best oven for your pizza, cake or casserole? We'd like to introduce you to our best ovens, microwave ovens and steam ovens. Find the best match for smaller or larger kitchens, encounter amazing features such as the disappearing Slide&Hide®door, our patented CircoTherm® roasting system, smart wifi-enabled ovens with Home Connect and those that clean themselves with pyrolitic programmes.
We'll show you the best ovens with Full Steam and Added Steam features, and help you find the best ovens if you want to mix and match our ovens, have them side-by-side or choose our built-in range or a double oven. Or why not have a look at the reviews and see what our customers say.
What are the benefits of built-in ovens?
Our built-in or integrated ovens make life easy for you: You choose separately which oven and which hob is the perfect match - and combine the two appliances to build your best oven. But that's not it: Create your perfect match and combine your oven with compact microwave or a sous-vide, warming drawer or another oven and add an induction or gas hob for cooking enthusiasts and families. Our SeamlessDesign for all appliances makes sure that your kitchen design will be not only contemporary but state of-the-art.
What are the best ovens for smaller kitchens?
Your kitchen demands a bit of extra attention when it comes to size and dimensions? You'll find the best solutions among our single Slide&Hide® oven range. Single Slide&Hide® ovens offer more space in the kitchen thanks to the disappearing door with the rotating handle. And they let you get closer to your favourite foods as well! Another idea for small kitchens is our range of compact ovens that provide all of the innovative features you’d expect from a NEFF Single Oven, just a bit smaller. Compact ovens are smaller in capacity and can positioned on their own, above or beside another single oven. If you wonder how to fit a microwave into your kitchen, we'd like to show you our compact built-in oven with integral microwave for even more ways to cook quickly and conveniently in a small kitchen.
What is a fan assisted or steam oven?
You may wonder: Which oven is truly the best for me? What is a fan assisted oven? And what is a steam oven? This is an easy one: There is no difference - but there is a world of difference between a fan assisted or steam oven and conventional (non-fan) ovens. Conventional ovens offer many programmes, but lack the option to add steam (Added Steam or Full Steam) to the baking or roasting process. The best example is CircoTherm®, our patented roasting system that allows you to cook completely different dishes simoultaneously, using all oven levels, without any intermingling flavours.
What are the latest oven trends and innovations?
The latest ovens are all about convenience – from technological innovations to help reduce your workload and improve cooking results, to carefully designed features to improve accessibility and save energy. These include:
- Home Connect – NEFF’s new WiFi enabled smart ovens which you can control remotely via the app and through voice control, as well as access advice, remote diagnostics and recipes ideas at any time.
- CircoTherm® - NEFF’s unique hot-air system, allowing you to evenly cook multiple dishes on different levels at the same time.
- Effective and time-saving self-cleaning programmes, such as Pyrolytic self-cleaning and EasyClean®.
- The innovative Slide&Hide® disappearing oven door, getting you closer to your cooking and saving space in your kitchen.
- Built-in meat probes* which ensure you always cook that succulent roast joint ‘just right’.
*On selected models
Which steam function is best for me?
Do you love pizza and bread? Find the best oven with our steam options:
1. Full steam: Our Full Steam ovens combine the heating modes of a full-featured oven with those of a steam cooker, all in one appliance. Full Steam is best for SousVide dishes. SousVide is an incredibly gentle cooking method that helps intensify the flavours in the food whilst retaining their goodness
2. Vario Steam®: Steam assistance for CircoTherm® ovens, that cooks foods moist on the inside and crisp on the outside. VarioSteam® enhances the flavour, texture and appearance of your dishes by adding just the right amount of moisture whilst baking, roasting or reheating.
3. Added Steam: For dishes that call for a balance between moist and crisp simply fill the water tank of your steam oven. Choose between 2 intensity levels and decide at what point in the cooking process you want steam to be activated.
What are the benefits of a self-cleaning oven and are they worth it?
Self-cleaning functions can keep your oven in perfect order for longer, reduce lingering cooking smells, and of course save you a lot of time and elbow grease. It’s important to understand the different types of cleaning aids available: Pyrolytic ovens have a full self-cleaning function that heats the oven up to 485ºC and burns off residues which you can then wipe away when they cool down; and functions like NEFF’s EasyClean® soften residues to make them easier to manually wipe away, so you can clean your oven more regularly.
Ovens with easily-removable glass enable you to keep this spotless – especially important for eye-level ovens. Ovens with enamel surfaces are also easier to keep clean.
What additional oven feature functions should I look out for?
NEFF ovens are packed full of state-of-the-art features which are designed to improve your cooking results as well as make your daily life easier. We also understand that every Cookaholic has different cooking preferences, which is why each of our ovens come with different heating elements and settings to give you more possibilities with your dishes, such as bottom heat for crispy bases, bread baking mode for that perfect loaf or Full Steam for enhanced flavour and nutrition.
Take a look at our NEFF features page and Oven Symbols Guide to see the full range of features, functions and settings available to you.
As well as cooking features, we have multiple other design and accessibility features to make life easier, such as our disappearing Slide&Hide® oven door, extending telescopic rails, internal lighting and touch control displays.
What are the oven safety features for families with children?
Most oven doors are designed to be cool to the touch on the outside, but you can also look for an oven with child lock, an automatic safety switch off and a residual heat indicator, which shows if the inside of the oven is still hot.
