I have never owned a double oven before. There have been times in the past that I wished I had one. Now I do. One distinct advantage of having a double oven is that it enables you to prepare dishes that require different cooking temperatures at the same time. I can already see what a great advantage this will offer whenever I have company over (especially for Thanksgiving Dinner). Even in daily use...if I decide I want to throw a dessert in the oven while my dinner is cooking, I can. It seems they are never designed with the same cooking temperature which means you can only cook one item at a time. Now I can cut my cooking time in half, when I have two items to cook that require different cooking temperatures.
The Whirlpool Gold RBD305PR Double Electric Wall Oven is a wall or cabinet mounted oven that is not a free standing unit. This oven is installed in my cabinets with enough room below for a short drawer and above is a full sized cabinet. The oven comes in four finishes, Black on black, Stainless Steel, White on White and Biscuit on Biscuit. I have the Stainless Steel which is actually black on Stainless. The cooking touch pad located above the top oven section is black, as are the oven door handles. There are two large windows located in the door of each oven, which also has a black appearance. The list price for the stainless steel option is $1699 while the other three options are substantially cheaper at $1399 each. The plug for this oven is located inside the cabinets and is connected to an outlet that it not visible from the kitchen. If your kitchen is already equipped with a built-in electric oven then this unit will work fine. If you are remodeling your kitchen and intend to install a unit like this, you should ensure that you have provided a place inside the cabinets to power the unit.
I did not install this oven myself. It was an upgrade option in a spec house that I recently purchased, so it was installed by the builder. I am not sure how much this oven weighs, but based on my past experience with ovens, I would not have wanted to lift this oven into place. It is a good sized unit with a 4.1 cubic foot capacity in both the upper and lower ovens. The unit stands fifty-one inches tall and is twenty-nine and three quarter inches across. The depth of the unit is just under two feet, which should be plenty for most cabinets. I have not looked for ovens recently, but the 4.1 cubic foot capacity is about average to slightly small for an oven. Because this unit actually contains two ovens of that capacity, the total cooking area in this oven is over eight cubic feet, which is about as much capacity as you are going to find in an ordinary oven. Basically, you sacrifice a small amount of capacity per oven in exchange for the ability to cook at two different temperatures. This is attractive for two reasons, the first being that you can cook different types of food at different temperatures simultaneously. An added bonus is that the unit heats up more quickly and expends less energy when you are only in need of one oven. This is a great energy saving feature.
The Whirlpool Gold RBD305PR Double Electric Wall Oven has a self cleaning mechanism in the upper oven. When the self cleaning mode is activated the oven will automatically latch (as opposed to those older units that have the lever you pull across). The lower oven does not have a self cleaning feature but does have a delay bake feature. This allows you to pre-set your oven to begin cooking at a specified time. I have not used this feature and probably would not be inclined to use it even though it is available.
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