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Is the kitchen oven becoming obsolete?

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I went to use the oven the other day to cook a roast. It's been so long since I've used it, I kind of forgot how to get it set to desired temp.
Got to thinking, I haven't seen the Mrs. use it much.
Looked around the kitchen and found:
Air Fryer
Toaster Oven
InstantPot

Now those I see the Mrs. using all the time.

Wondering if you still use a traditional oven or do you use other appliances instead.

A couple other notes.
Ours has a convection stove and oven. No idea how to use those.
The roast would have come out better and more tender using the InstantPot.
 
Wife uses our oven all the time. Gave away our Air Fryer and toaster oven. Didn't use those enough to justify them taking up counter space.
 
We're the opposite. Before the oven can even get hot, the air fryer or toaster oven would already have everything cooked. I also like they only use a fraction of the electricity.
Oh, and our oven holds the cookie sheets and large pans thus freeing up cabinet space. ;)
 
My wife cooks everything in a gas oven or a gas range. Microwave only for reheating leftovers.
Gas grill in summer. 48"
Do have an electric stove top in the garage in case we need extra heating for a party. Hardly ever gets used.
 
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bczoom said:
We're the opposite. Before the oven can even get hot, the air fryer or toaster oven would already have everything cooked. I also like they only use a fraction of the electricity.
Oh, and our oven holds the cookie sheets and large pans thus freeing up cabinet space. ;)
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Gas oven and we have free gas. It does take longer I suppose but it's the cooks choice. Fine by me.
She also stores the baking sheets and pizza pans in the oven when not in use to save space.
 
Well you must have a better toaster oven than me. Mine burns the top of everything and cleaning any splatter out of it is impossible. It is also an airfryer. ( a Cuisinart ) I've only tried that a couple of times cause I just don't eat that sort of thing.

My gas range/oven makes a pretty good little roast chicken or I can put a 3 quart pot in which I browned some beef and added the veg and red wine right in there for a couple three hours at 300 ( Instantpot was a pain and neither browned nor cooked that great ) The stove oven is the only thing on propane and costs about $70/year and we have very high propane prices.
I can make 2 dozen cookies at once, proof bread and bake bread ( without burning the top or the bottom...and no hole in the bottom like the bread machine)
 
Can y'all teach me about convection stoves/ovens? Ours has it but I have no idea how to use it. I "heard" you need special pans for the stove.
 
Wife uses the oven a lot as well as the air frier, the toaster oven for small stuff, what we don’t use is the microwave, it’s built in and when I do the kitchen remodel I am planning to install a built in air frier and get rid of the microwave. The Treger grill gets a pretty good work out too.
 
We use the oven lots for baking. We have a whole counter full of gadgets including a toaster convection air fryer oven sitting next to a double din air fryer. And a bread machine. We actually use them. With 5 teens all coming and going throughout the day they come in handy.
 
bczoom said:
We're the opposite. Before the oven can even get hot, the air fryer or toaster oven would already have everything cooked. I also like they only use a fraction of the electricity.
Oh, and our oven holds the cookie sheets and large pans thus freeing up cabinet space. ;)
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It's crazy how much money it saves in time and electricity. When I'm homesteading, I have all the time in the world!
 
Had an air fryer and toaster oven, got rid of them. I use the oven a fair bit, more so in the winter, the heat given off doesn’t go to waste when it’s-30! Like the crockpot. BBQ as much as I can in nice weather.
 
My Stove/Oven gets use virtually every day.
1973 Montgomery Ward Microwave does as well.

Both are hardly obsolete.

Put myself thru college as a short order fry cook at a Pancake House. And later as a full kitchen manager in a high end Italian restaurant. So, my wife seldom cooks. I prefer the stove and oven.

We do have a crockpot and a waffle iron. Used occasionally.

I miss having the flat grill for eggs, bacon, flapjacks, and hash browns like I used at the Pancake House. A Blackstone would be nice but for inside I am considering this unit
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Back Yard ProGKIT-FL Model.

It must wait until I finish the Kitchen remodel.



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bczoom said:
Can y'all teach me about convection stoves/ovens? Ours has it but I have no idea how to use it. I "heard" you need special pans for the stove.
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Convection ovens have a fan in them that swirls the area so it is not stratified. Seems to be more even heat, and the food cooks a little faster too. It works under a similar principle as an air fryer. But air fryers seem to circulate the air faster. Still, if you want extra crispy tater tots, the convection oven will do that.

Convection cooktops are very different, they use magnetics to evenly heat surfaces, not quite sure how that works. But you need steel pots/pans for those, not aluminum. I don't have a convection cooktop.
 
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No such thing as "convection" cooktop. It is an induction cooktop. Said to be the most efficient way to cook but you need very flat bottom pans with a steel core because magnetism is involved.

They aren't cheap but no longer extremely expensive, however they can make odd noises like vibration caused by the pan/cooktop interface.

I recently bought a new stove/oven and really wanted an induction cooktop but many online reviews complained of the noisey Oven fans in the models that had induction cooktops .
 
Unless you are cooking large meals the air fryer is really the way to go. If I can fit it in the air fryer that is where it is going. So much faster and easier to clean up - especially if you use the paper liners. I rarely use an oven any more.
 
It depends on who's home 3 of us fries or potatoes in air fryer andy more than that oven unless its baked meat the rest of our stuff gets cooked on griddle
 
If you get a chance, read about the invention of the microwave.
The very first commercially available microwave cost the equivalent
 
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I recently bought a new stove/oven and really wanted an induction cooktop but many online reviews complained of the noisey Oven fans in the models that had induction cooktops .
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This, our convection oven is noisy. It heats up faster but it´s annoying when it's running for a long time.
 
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This, our convection oven is noisy. It heats up faster but it´s annoying when it's running for a long time.
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Well, I did get a convection oven !! I searched long and hard. I don't remember the model number/brand but the oven fan is very quiet. It does continue on for a bit but quietly. I'll post a pic later.
 
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