Steam Ovens Buying Guide

Steam cooking goes back to ancient times when the Chinese were to steam their food using bamboo baskets. But now in modern times, the steam oven offers much more resourcefulness in use and is of course, is much more technologically advanced.

This healthy method of cooking offers benefits like faster cooking times, retention of vitamins, nutrients, flavour, colour and texture. Steam cooking prevents your food from over cooking, by only absorbing the moisture it needs and requires no oils to keep the food from drying out. This oven can be used to cook everything from delicious roasts to pastries to veggies.

This buying guide will help you decipher what the right type of steam oven is for your kitchen.

Size

The great thing about the steam oven is that your options provide you with size flexibility. This cooking appliance can be installed in your kitchen, placed as a countertop stove or sized the same as a mid-size microwave.

Our steam oven's capacity ranges from around 20L to over 30L. If you are looking for something smaller, our steam microwave will do just the trick steaming your veggies and keeping them nice and fresh.

Be sure to measure the selected space for your steam oven before purchasing.

Features

Steam ovens have gone beyond the cooking limits of only steamed veggies and fish; now these fantastic cooking appliances are able to steam up pretty much everything. However, you should know that a steam oven doesn't brown or crisp your food. Instead of using hot elements to cook your food, this device uses only moisture. A way to get around this is to put your food on a grill before or after cooking to give it a bit of colour and crisp.

If serving crisp food is important for you, an oven that combines steam cooking and conventional cooking methods is what you should be looking for.

Some great features to look into for a steam oven are:

• Up to 8 cooking functions
• 12 Programmed recipes
• Defrost
• Grill
• Fan forced cooking
• Programmable timer
• Child safe mode
• 4 Layer door
• Removable door
• Memory function
• Illuminated knobs

If you are interested in the steam convection microwave here are some features that may interest you:

• Large LCD display with visual prompts
• Inverter function (MWO)
• Four in One cooking options
• SuperSteam™ Convection
• Steam, Convection and Microwave
• Up to 43 Pre-programmed auto cook menus
• Microwave - auto defrost and sensor reheat
• Energy save mode
• Child lock
• Descaling/Cleaning function

Temperatures of steam ovens vary. Different systems can cook food at temperatures of 100℃ to more than 300℃. When using a steam oven, cooking a chicken set to 100℃ would normally take about 20 minutes to cook rather than the two hours it'd take in a traditional oven.

Cleaning

When cleaning a steam oven all it takes is a wipe of the moisture. As this oven solely uses moisture when cooking food, there are no burnt bits attached on the inside of the oven. So it's simply a matter of wiping out the moisture within.

Please feel free to contact our customer service team for any queries on steam ovens. Call us on 1300 000 500.