Buying a good oven in Hong Kong

Posted by Tinnna on January 3rd, 2018

Many Hong Kong families will add an oven in their kitchen, but most of them do not have a idea when making a choice of them. Following article will help you to choose a more suitable one in your kitchen in Hong Kong.

Free-standing vs built-in oven

Before purchasing an oven, the first thing you need to consider is the oven should be the free-standing or built-in oven. Although it mostly depends on the layout and size of your kitchen, you are also required to take their features into consideration.

Free-standing oven

Free-standing oven can stand on the floor and it will work when being connected to a power supply socket. Usually, there is a kitchen stove attached to it which should be installed into the designated clearance in kitchen counter. The main advantage of free-standing oven is that they can be installed into the modern kitchen in a easy way while its disadvantage is that it is restricted in terms of freedom, what is more, the sense of integration which is manifested in built-in oven is deprived. For some people who have already owned an old kitchen and do not make big adjustment to the layout of it, the independent oven is really a good choice.

Built-in oven

Built-in oven is divided into two categories which are respectively “wall mounted” and “bench mounted”. The former is installed inside the wall or inside the wall cabinet while the latter one is installed under kitchen table or counter. Sense of beauty and flexibility is manifested in the two categories of inserted oven. Compared with stand-alone oven, built-in oven is more integrated into the kitchen generally.

When designing and building a new kitchen, free-standing oven will be a very good choice. Certainly, it can also be installed in the existing kitchen. What is worth mentioning is that built-in oven which is installed inside the wall is more convenient to use, because when you want to check your dinner or you want to take out a plate from it, we do not need to bend while for built-in oven which is installed under kitchen counter, you have to bend all the time. Moreover, built-in oven which is installed inside the wall never takes any space on the ground, which is conductive to save space for your kitchen.

Electric oven VS Gas oven VS Steam oven

The next step is to decide whether you should buy an electric oven, a gas oven or a steam oven. Let us introduce all categories of ovens.

Electric oven

The electric oven is usually more economic and affordable then the gas oven whether built-in type or free-standing type, but it still provides many functions and wide universal property. The electric oven can be further divided into “conventional” and “convectional” types. The heat source of the conventional oven comes from its bottom and top heaters with the middle room as the center.

Although the conventional oven is good enough in most cases, nearly all the new ovens are “convectional” type which includes a fan making the heated air within the oven box to circulate all the time so as to achieve fast and even heating. Many electric ovens are also able to provide some convenient preset programs for different cooking ways.

If you are still undecided to buy a conventional type or a convectional type, you can take oven with multi-function into consideration, as you can choose to turn on the fan or not inside the oven.

Gas oven

The premise of using gas oven is that the gas oven must be connected with the gas pipe/outdoor propane/natural gas tank. The important advantage of gas oven is that the heat generated by it is moisturized, which will reduce the risk of excessive drying of food in roasting process. Additionally, the temperature inside the gas oven rises up faster than that of the electric oven, so you are able to control its temperature in a better way. The gas oven can also be the convectional type and the fans within it will make the food heated up evenly.

Steam oven

There is another type of oven which is becoming more and more popular in recent years-the steam oven. It uses steam as the heat media. The steam oven can maintain the natural nutrition of food, at the same time, the food is impossible to be fired in the oven at all. For people who care more about their health and food nutrition, they should select steam oven. You can refer to the article in terms of the advantages and selection of steam oven.

Those are tips for choosing oven, if you wan to know more, you may check "buy the best oven in hong kong".