I don't know if this muddies the decision waters or not, but there may be something to the smaller oven/better performance school of thought. I have a GE Twin Flex, a 30 inch single oven split into a double oven. The larger convection oven is 2.8 cu ft, & the smaller non-convection oven is 2.2 cu ft. Both bake like a dream. They are well insulated, are quicker to heat up than my old 5 cu ft single ovens, & certainly much quicker to clean. I've baked cookies, pies, chiffon cakes, multiple pans of butter cakes, quick breads, biscuits, muffins, & cinnamon buns. Everything comes out beautifully. So I'm sold on smaller ovens.

I had a 32-year-old Thermador 24 inch wall oven years ago. Never had a problem with space. I'd just make some holiday foods before the holidays (pies, usually) & some foods the day of.

aziline I'm seeing more and more that people are prefering 24" ovens in regular sized kitchen. No major recipe limitations but major performance advantages.

I just went through this exercise. I decided to buy a 30" convection oven and a 24" combi-microwave oven.

Initially, I was going to buy a 30" convection oven and a 30" combi-microwave oven because I planned on stacking them on top of each other. (I've seen a picture of a 24" oven stacked on top of a 30" oven, and I did not like the look at all.) I wasn't really a fan of the whole double oven look though.

I also didn't like the look of the two ovens side by side. So I broke them apart into different areas of my planned kitchen. I am not much of a cook, so the 30" oven will hardly ever be used. The combi-microwave will get used a ton. So splitting them into different areas of the kitchen makes a lot of sense for how we live. The capacity of the 24" combi-microwave is the same at the capacity of the 30" combi-microwave. I don't have big pans/cookie sheets that I need to fit into an oven. So I didn't need to worry about those considerations when I decided.

Can you fit a regular half sheet pan in a 24" oven? I have a 27" oven with only a few inches of extra room, so doubting that you can. A smaller oven heats up faster but I need to be able to fit half sheet pans! 90% of my oven usage is roasting veggies in half sheet pans though. A 24" and a 30" could be best of both worlds.

We had a 24" oven. Never again! We cook turkeys and roasts rather than cookies and pies, and that 24" oven was very limiting on turkey size - and we are a household of two!

I have 27 inch, and It works fine, but, I would prefer the 30 inch, never a 24.

Thanks everybody. I will go for a 30" .