Miele steam oven review

We have been completely delighted by our new kitchen appliances.  You may recall that I was very enthusiastic about getting a steam oven to replace the microwave.  However, it took a long time before our Miele steam oven was functional; we don't believe the oven's problem was the oven but that the oven wasn't getting sufficient electricity.  (Simply put, the electrician didn't read the manual closely and thought the steam oven was functional with lesser power supplied to it).

We've had the steam oven operational for a few weeks now.  We use it virtually every day, at least once per day.  It makes phenomenal rice.  We cook most of our vegetables in the steam oven.  My dh makes his morning oatmeal in the steam oven (which is nice because you just plunk the pan into the oven, trot to the shower and return and it is ready to eat ~ you don't have to babysit the steam oven like you do the cooktop).  I make better scrambled eggs in the steam oven than on the stove.

We My dh used it last week to make canned peaches: we my dh blanched the peaches in the oven (to remove the skins), we sterilized the jars in the steam oven, and, once we filled the jars with peaches and juice, we cooked the peaches in the steam oven which eliminated the heavy canner.  It will be a dream to use the steam oven to blanch and freeze yellow beans next year!

We haven't done much reheating of casseroles yet in the steam oven but that will be attempted in the future.  We tend to still (periodically) microwave frozen breads (as the microwave has been banished to the basement).  Also on my to-do list is to make creme brulee in the steam oven.

My dh is delighted to clean the steam oven now that he has found Shamwow which soaks up any residue steam water like a dream!  He thinks the time it takes to clean the steam oven would be about equivalent to the time he would spend washing/drying a pot and we just place the used pan in the dishwasher.  It is so nice that it's really hard to burn food in a steam oven either!