Our wide range of Steam Ovens at Winning Appliances are manufactured by the world’s leading brands, to enhance your kitchen and expand the way you prepare meals.
This buying guide on ovens with steam capabilities will help you determine the best option to suit your cooking requirements, so you can enjoy the remarkable benefits of steam cooking at home.
Steam Revolution
As you probably know, steam cooking has made a stunning comeback in the world of domestic kitchen appliances.
Steam cooking is nothing new, with the earliest historical evidence dating back to about 10,000 years. However, with advancements in cooking technology, the power of steam is combined with sophisticated appliance design to streamline the cooking process, making steam ovens a must-have in a gourmet home kitchen.
And with the “steam revolution”, comes a new appreciation of the health benefits and culinary capabilities only possible with steam cooking.
Benefits
Cooking with a steam oven has numerous benefits and advantages to help you prepare delicious and nutritious meals.- Steam cooking retains more of the nutrients, vitamins and minerals of your food, making it a healthy option that also ensures your food tastes and looks better.
- Unless they are coated with a generous amount of fats and oils, cooking fish, chicken, and vegetables can cause dry and unappetising results when using convection heating alone. Steam cooking helps food to retain and seal in its moisture for tender and juicy results.
- Steaming is the ideal method for reheating food as it helps to bring cold, dry, and dull-looking dishes back to life, while helping to retain the texture it originally had.
- Combining steam with convection oven capabilities gives you the best of both worlds: baked goods and roasts that are beautifully moist on the inside, while deliciously crispy and browned on the outside.
Categories
Steam technology is available in various oven configurations. To help make sense of the options available, we are going to outline three main categories available at Winning Appliances:Combi-Steam Ovens |
Steam Only Ovens |
Steam Injection Ovens |
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| Functionality | Combine steam and normal oven cooking abilities. | Standalone steamers best used as a companion to the main oven. | Offers an additional moisture function along with multi-function capabilities. |
| Cooking results | Achieve roasts and bakes that are beautifully moist on the inside and crisp on the outside | Beautiful steamed results for fish, veggies, desserts etc (without the browning). | Brings a little steam to the cooking process to help retain moisture of bakes and roasts. |
Combination Ovens
Combination Steam ovens are at the forefront of the steam revolution. Combining steaming with the cooking abilities of a multifunctional oven, the Combi-Oven offers the ability to bake, roast, combine steam with convection cooking, or to be used as a steamer.
Most models incorporate a water tank, which is designed to be easily accessible, enabling convenient refilling. The larger the water tank, the longer you’ll be able to steam without needing to refill it.
The Combi-Steam Oven is a great option for those who like to steam regularly and in larger quantities, while delivering crispy results and perfect browning that you can achieve with roasting and baking.
This stylish appliance represents superior combi-steam technology from a leading European brand. It’s a great example of how innovative features and advanced technologies have brought automatic convenience and precision to steam cooking. By harnessing the benefits of steam in a boldly progressive way, this appliance offers unparalleled cooking capabilities.
This V-ZUG oven is also extremely user-friendly, making the relatively complex process of combi-steam cooking simple and streamlined. You can use the intuitive Touch Control interface to activate smart cooking programmes that are designed to take the guesswork out from cooking. Offering the ability to identify the quantity and consistency of the food you want to cook, this intelligent oven automatically adjusts cooking settings and times accordingly. These programmes include specially configured recipes (in this case, developed by top chef Stefan Meier) that can be applied to ensure perfect results.
Steam appliances need to be regularly flushed and descaled, and this is where this oven shines. For additional time-saving convenience, this oven features an automatic descaling programme to easily remove limescale with minimal effort.
Steam Only Ovens
A standalone Steam Oven only gives you steam cooking functionality. You’ll be able to steam multiple dishes simultaneously including fish, vegetables, rice, and desserts. Since it cannot brown or roast food in the same way that an oven with convection capabilities can, they should be considered as a companion appliance to your main oven.
A standout example of a Steam Only Oven from Winning Appliances is the Miele 45cm PureLine Compact Steam Oven DG7440.
Part of the Miele Generation 7000 range, this compact Steam Oven features DualSteam technology which helps to spread the steam inside the compartment quickly and evenly, giving you perfectly cooked food every time.
Equipped with automatic cooking programmes, you can prepare a wide variety of dishes and ingredients without the need for complicated recipes, while still giving you incredibly precise results. You can also explore the culinary technique of sous vide with this oven. This method gently cooks or reheats food inside a vacuum-sealed bag resulting in gourmet, restaurant-quality meals.
Steam Injection Ovens
Not quite a Combi-Steamer, these appliances are essentially a multi-function oven with an added steam function.
This function is able to bring bursts of steam to crucial stages of a normal cooking process. You can achieve improved roasting and baking results with the addition of moisture. Adding steam allows you to bake bread that is soft on the inside with a beautiful golden crust on the outside. Or roast succulent, tender meats with a perfectly browned crust.
The add steam function can be found in the Miele 90cm PureLine Pyrolytic Built-in Oven H7890BP.
This built-in oven from Miele is part of the innovative Generation 7000 range and features the MoisturePlus function. This setting can be combined with various functions and automatic cooking programmes, adding steam during the cooking process for optimal results. You can also set the times when you want bursts of steam added, giving you control and greater flexibility.
For additional convenience, this smart oven has networking capabilities thanks to the Miele@home application. This enables you to remotely control your oven through your smartphone. You can even remotely monitor your dishes with FoodView, which sends images of your food to your phone via an integrated camera in the oven compartment.
For more information, please talk to one of our in-store experts or visit us at your nearest Winning Appliances showroom.
