Hi all

As I spent money revamping on the house and none on the kitchen (because they're all very new) and I can't find a built-in oven to fit into my existing cabinet - I'm now resorting to a standalone oven.

I've no experience in buying one. Prior to buying this place, when we rented in AMK, the landlord provided us a $80 Morries oven (from NTUC) which served me well when I needed to grill salmon, roast meat, baked lasagnas.

Surprisingly, I also made cake pops, macarons, cookies, tart base with this oven although the outcome is not entirely perfect especially the macarons (but the hubby wasn't complaining).

So I've been wandering around aimlessly at malls checking out ovens and I'm still very blur on what's out there. I don't want to get Morries again ... but I saw a few convection ovens and I'm not sure if anyone has tried making macarons, cakes, cookies with it?

Anyone with some awesome standalone ovens, please recommend. thanks in advance. I'll make macarons in return!!

I forgot to add that I love making pastries such as bread, crossaints, rolls etc too.

hi,

I have been doing a lot of running around for stand alone ovens too as hubby was not too keen on built-in. Rowenta and De Longhi both seem to be good choices for reliability. Rowenta is made in France and De Longhi in Italy. Both are around sgd 500 for capacity around 40 ltrs. In the lower range models, techno seems to be the best. It has 50 ltrs capacity and can be picked up below 200 in a sale. It has both fan as well as rotisserie (rowenta and de longhi have either one). But, it is made in china so the quality may not match rowenta or de longhi.