The installation is from desperation. I would demand a padded kneeler if I had to use it for anything other than trays of cookies or layer cakes. I guess if you pulled the rack all the way out and could endure the upward blast of heat in your face, it would be possible to bend over and lift a pound cake out of it but, in general, the installation sucks. Then there is the whole reaching down to the floor to lift the door to close it, unless you could sort of kick it upward with the toe of your shoe.