Wall oven below cooktop?

[warmsecondrinse]

#29

Exactly.

I added up everything my orthopaedists and physical therapists would want me to do in a perfect world. I came up with 21 hours and that does NOT include the travel time and the daily hot tub soak they all recommend.

As one member once commented, "Well, I think you have your answer as to why you don't bake ... ever."

 

[foraloysius]

Oh deary me! Who would have thought that a solution for small kitchens would lead to so many complaints about back problems. European kitchen makers like to think in solutions, so there is something for everyone. You don't have to have a single oven under the counter when you don't have to. The Dutch institute for Good Living has options for people with back problems like this demo model shows. You can have it every way you want here.

 

[beehiveboy]

In Europe they don’t tend to be known as wall ovens, they are simply referred to as single ovens. As such they can be installed anywhere that suits the kitchen/user. Also, European ovens are 24” as standard, and if installed under counter the filler panel, certainly in the uk anyway, is installed under the oven, so they are not particularly low to access. It’s fascinating to note the differences between UK Europe and US on something as simple as an oven!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

On my trips to Israel I see wall ovens mounted in WALLS, and at the appropriate height as in America—so under counter is clearly a European thing versus the “Oy!” that we are accustomed to doing in pushing ourselves, as using an oven should not be one of our typical doing it the hard way, otherwise the oven would be in a range of a free standing design...

— Dave

 

[warmsecondrinse]

#31

I am completely on board with this oven and dishwasher set-up! Yee-Ha!

It makes sense that such design would come from the Netherlands where the average adult male is 5' 11.3", a full 2' taller than the average US male.

Funny, in the US my height is 83nd percentile, 70th in Poland and just 60th in the Netherlands.

There used to be a group, "Tall Gay Agenda" that had monthly happy hours in Hell's Kitchen. I just cleared the 6'0" minimum height requirement that was in effect when I joined. I was actually "short" for the first time in my life. And yes, I got measured when I entered.

All numbers are from tall.life

 

[mattl]

To each his own...

I'm 6'4" and have zero issues using my wall oven mounted under my cooktop - and I use it all the time. Even though I have quite a large kitchen I wouldn't want the oven any higher, I try to balance function with visuals.