Two Ovens - both big, or one big & one smallish?

amother

Burlywood

Fri, Jun 03 2016, 6:10 pm

We are planning a home remodel and I need to make a decision about ovens. We have always had just one oven (and hold that you can use one for both milchig and fleish, with waiting in between).

Anyhow, we are now going to have two ovens, mostly so I can multitask when preparing for chag or shabbat. I can have a roast in and cook a dessert or lasagne in the second oven. We know we need one big oven that can fit a huge turkey. DH thinks that we should have two big ovens, mounted in the wall (this is what he grew up with). I think that we should have one big oven (that's part of the slide-in oven/stove) and one that's smaller, but big enough to fit a lasagne/casserole dish, or even a dutch oven pot.

What do you all think? My thinking is that when I need to use both ovens at the same time, I won't need to huge ovens. I just need one big and one small

I could use the main big oven for the big meat dishes, or for big baking sheets full of veggies for roasting, and then use the smaller one for a dessert or a baked dairy dish. Usually my dairy foods are not big pans of things. A lasagne or casserole dish is usually as big as I need.

We have limited space in our kitchen, so I don't want to forego the cabinet/storage space for a huge oven when a smaller one would suffice. I was thinking that the smaller oven could fit in the island, instead of having two stacked double ovens in the wall.

We do host a LOT, often for big crowds.

amother

Azure

Fri, Jun 03 2016, 6:52 pm

I would recommend 2 full ovens. Sometimes for yom tov (especially pesach) when I am feeding a huge crowd I kasher the dairy and then have 2 full ovens to fill - and I do.
Also, though you may typically not need a very big milchig oven, it's nice to have the extra space when making a more elaborate meal or baking.
What I would also recommend though is NOT to get a double oven but 2 separate ovens. As far as I'm aware none of the double wall ovens with shabbat mode are designed to allow both to run simultaneously.

OOTBubby

Sat, Jun 04 2016, 11:15 pm

amother wrote:

What I would also recommend though is NOT to get a double oven but 2 separate ovens. As far as I'm aware none of the double wall ovens with shabbat mode are designed to allow both to run simultaneously.

I've owned 3 different brands of double ovens (built in); all with Shabbos mode and they could all run both ovens simultaneously.