Oven buying guide
If you haven’t bought a new oven for a while, you might be surprised at how much has changed. Modern ovens are more efficient, versatile and time saving than older ovens, but all of these new features can be a bit overwhelming. Use NEFF’s handy guide to oven buying to help you to understand the latest oven trends, oven cooking features and oven convenience features, so you can pick the right oven for your home and lifestyle with confidence.
What are the benefits of built-in ovens?
Built-in or integrated ovens offer versatility as they are independent from the cooktop, and can be seamlessly designed to fit into your kitchen interior. Additional benefits include:
- Positioning your oven at a height that suits you
- Flexibility with your cooktop types by combining the electric oven with an induction or gas cooktop
- Combining more than one oven or compact appliance together to suit your lifestyle and kitchen. Our unique SeamlessCombination® strips allow you to combine your built-in ovens so they look like one single unit.
What are the oven options for smaller kitchens?
Both our single Slide&Hide® ovens and compact ovens are ideal for tighter kitchen spaces.
Single Slide&Hide® ovens give you more space in the kitchen thanks to the disappearing door.
Compact ovens are smaller in capacity and can positioned on their own, above or beside your single oven.
What is a multifunction fan oven?
NEFF fan ovens offer greater flexibility than conventional (non-fan) ovens and provide the following benefits thanks to our unique CircoTherm® hot air system:
- Oven heats up faster
- Dishes are cooked/baked more evenly
- Ability to cook multiple dishes evenly on different levels
- Cook sweet, savoury or fish at the same time with no intermingling of flavour
- CircoTherm® fan technology is also available on Vario Steam or Full Steam ovens
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:
- 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
What type of steam function is best for me?
1. Full steam: Our FullSteam oven function combines all of the heating modes of a full-featured oven with those of a steam cooker, all in one appliance. FullSteam used 100% steam. We all know the typical foods that come to mind when it comes to steaming,
such as vegetables and fish, but what are the other dishes you can create with a FullSteam Oven? You can cook risottos, puddings, dumplings and more. A quick and clean way of steaming.
2. VarioSteam: VarioSteam is when bursts of steam are added to the normal hot air cooking process. It is perfect for food which needs to be moist on the inside and crisp on the outside, such as bread and meat. Three types of steam intensity levels dependent on what you are creating, allow you to achieve beautiful food that is succulent and tender.
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.
What additional oven features 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 cook 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.
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.