No experience, but curious where you have countertop room for this in your kitchen.

It would live on a robust shelf tucked between range hood and exterior wall, in the Magic Corner - since its footprint would be entirely above the counter, it wouldn’t interfere with my cooking in said Corner.

I dunno, reading through the manual makes the operation of this device seem more designed for rapidly executing pre-loaded cook programs (that you can load via USB) as one would do in a restaurant with line cooks executing pre-tested, pre-set menu items, than for ad hoc one-off cooking.

I actually bought an Anova Precision Oven to go there, but will cancel it as I stupidly misread the oven’s features (I thought it was a speed oven among other things).

Sigh. The choices in countertop counter speed (microwave + radiant) ovens are very limited, and none of the “home” versions seem very good (Breville, Toshiba). I speculate, without really looking into it, that makers of home equipment want to keep the power within the limits of a 15A circuit (1800w = 15A * 120v) and that is not enough power to drive both microwave and radiant elements plus convection fan. Since houses don’t tend to have 240v receptacles on the counter, that makes sense.

Thank you very much! I'm looking at that now. I should get a CU subscription.

John: If memory serves (no longer a high probability), there was a long thread on this topic some years ago. Maybe a search will reveal some additional useful information.

Has anyone noted when we reverted to www.gardenweb.com?

Has anyone noted when we reverted to www.gardenweb.com?

I’ve used the gardenweb url, since it’s inception. Never have used Houzz to get to the kitchen forum.

I do recall initially, during the turnover to Houzz, being asked if I want to stay here, or continue in the Houzz app. But, that stopped long ago.

My link to the forum is an Houzz link, and heretofore (+/- several days) the banner URL in my browser was Houzz.com. A look-up today shows both URLs owned by Houzz with similar /16 block IP addresses provided by the server farm they use.

Apologies for thread topic deviation.

Kaseki, thanks. I’ve never had much luck searching in Houzz. But I will try.

For now, I’m installing a large adjustable shelf in the corner, beefy enough to hold any oven, and a couple of 120v 20A circuits, so I can try different residential countertop ovens. If needed, I can get a 240v circuit there very easily - it is right above the panel in the basement.

John, can you please post your kitchen layout again?

Use a major search engine, such as google, startpage, brave, etc. Include with you search terms "site:gardenweb.com/discussions"; or "site:houzz.com/discussions";.

eam, believe it or not I don’t have a dimensioned plan drawing! I’ll do one and post. But, pics here https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/6455856/stainless-and-butcher-block-counters

But the corner earmarked for countertop ovens and microwaves etc is here.

That is a 24” x 20” shelf, I haven’t settled on width between standards yet so they are just hanging there, with the shelf set on top. The countertop oven will go on the shelf - currently just my old toaster oven but the shelf is sized for a larger unit and I can always make a larger or deeper shelf for an even bigger unit. Max load on each support is 300 lb. Then microwave will go below shelf. More shelves above for stockpots, etc. At full speed the hood will pull any smoke from the shelf area sideways and into the baffles, in case that’s needed.

eam44, dimensioned plans placed here - see post #32

Stainless And Butcher Block Counters? (gardenweb.com)

I hate to offer unsolicited advice, no one ever thanks you for it and it just annoys people, but you’ve got three issues to think about, and you may even find space for your oven. If you are not going to change any of this, that’s cool too.

Let me start with #3. Never, never, never put the door to the 1/2 bath in the kitchen. If you can make that a pocket door and move it to the “hallway” near the entry to the dining room, do that. It would mean making your wire cabinet smaller or moving it down farther on that wall. If bathroom plumbing precludes that change, I guess you’re keeping it as is.

#2 You don’t need double doors there, you could replace them with a single door and have wall space for another pantry cabinet with a speed oven.

#1 What is this cabinet? Open shelving? How will you access it?

Offered with the best intentions. E

Thank you! Unsolicited is most appreciate!

It would be hard to change the bathroom around. The plumbing is all on the wall where the pocket door would go.

The double doors do take up space, but as they are all glass, they also admit light. Here in the grey and desperate PNW, the more light the better. It will start raining this week, and may not stop for six months. Maybe seven. Seldom eight . . . but this year it rained well into June. Neighbors turn into serial killers or werewolves, which is different styles of the same thing. Come summer, we emerge blinking from our soggy houses and see who made it.

The left hand cabinet has eight drawers. The original idea was spices, starches, tins of anchovies, lemons and onions and shallots, the stuff you’d want close at hand for prep. We are still figuring out what goes where and what to throw out - dump run tomorrow! - so if I can get rid of enough agglomerated “junque” from the old kitchen, maybe that cabinet will be used for its original purpose. For now, I honestly couldn’t tell you what is in there. Old cellphones, AC adapters to long lost devices, lids to similarly gone containers, and a decade of dried-up rollerballs, I’d guess :-(

It is at least easy to access - the drawers all pull out fully.

If you have the depth for it you can put your speed oven in cabinet #1

Sadly, there is a plumbing stack there so half of the wall behind cabinet #1 is pushed out by 4“. The cabinet had to be constructed to fit that ”jog” in the wall. The available depth thus isn’t enough for an in-wall oven.

I could build, or have built, a cabinet that hangs on the wall by the range and holds an oven. Basically where there is an open shelf now.