Hi, I do a lot of roasts and some baking as well. I have been using Teka in my previous place, and i'm very happy with it. For my new place i'm looking for an oven that has a digital temp display, as i find the analog dials too imprecise.
I know that Ariston has a model with digital temp setting, i don't have the model on hand but i remember that it retails for $1349 (now it's going for $1249). I've heard a lot of bad press on the Mayer's cust service so i'm a bit hesitant about Ariston. I think it's the FZ 990 C.1 IX
I would like to stick to Teka but the i think teka doesn't have digital temp setting at the low end of the thousand dollar scale.
What caught my eye was Teka's premium model - HA890. And here's the golden feature which i find so cool - is that it comes with a built in Meat Probe. For roasting meats this is a very essential. The meat probe is inserted into the center of the meat, and once the specific internal temperature is achieve the oven will switch off. This would help ensure meat done to your taste. I currently us a digital meat probe, but its obviously not built-in to my oven - so i have to manually intervene. Assuming the built-in meat probe works as promised this would be an excellent feature. That is the golden question though, IF it works as promised. The oven is not cheap $2400 list. And it isn't a pyrolytic one.
http://www.teka.com/html/cat/prod.php?prod...p;nameCat=Ovens
The only other oven i've found to have meat probes are the Miele ones - which i'm sure will be way above S2.4k.
Anyone has experience with this oven? Hope you can share. I really like the feature, but i'm wondering if it's worth the extra dough.
