If you're remodeling your kitchen, consider if you'd enjoy having a wall oven and cooktop rather than a standard range. A wall oven and cooktop combination is easier to use and gives you more control over your appliances. For instance, you may want a cooktop with more burners than a typical range offers. Here are a few tips for choosing a new wall oven and cooktop.
Choose Features For Your Oven
You can buy a double oven, which is convenient if you have a large family. The two stacked ovens can cook at different temperatures so you can prepare more food and cook different kinds of food at the same time. The ovens can also have special features, such as air frying, which you might like if you're trying to limit the amount of oil you eat.
New wall ovens come with modern features such as an app that lets you monitor what you're cooking on your phone. You can tell the internal temperature of the food as well as watch the timer so you know when it's time to take something out of the oven. Some wall ovens have attractive exteriors, such as French doors that swing open.
Choose Features For Your Cooktop
While wall ovens are mostly electric models, you have a choice between gas, electric, and induction cooktops. You might prefer gas when using burners so you can control the temperature more precisely. If you cook with a griddle or oversize pan, you may want oval burners that heat a griddle shape evenly.
Cooktops offer several options in burner configurations, burner sizes, and number of burners so you can pick an appliance that fits the way you cook. Just be sure to measure the opening in your countertop or island so you choose the right size for your new cooktop.
Mix Or Match The Appliances
You can buy your wall oven and cooktop as a matched set, or you may want to choose different brands from an appliance store. Choosing different brands gives you the chance to pick out the appliances you truly like the most. Plus, you may even find discounted appliances at the store so you can mix brands to save money.
If you want a matched set, buy both appliances at the same time. If you don't care about the appliances matching, then you might buy them one at a time and use your old range until you can afford to buy both appliances. You might want to do this if you're waiting on the appliance store to hold a sale so you can get a new appliance at the most affordable cost.
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