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Wolf convection steam oven vs Miele steam oven?

Suzanne M
8 years ago

Help! Had my heart set on Miele steam oven but have no one in my area to get parts from in a timely fashion. It has been recommended to replace with Wolf combi steam oven. Apparently the Wolf has very poor instructions for use and virtually no recipes! Any advice appreciated!!

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  • B Sheets
    7 years ago

    We have a love/hate relationship with our Miele CombiSteam oven. We purchased it brand new in December 2015 as part of our kitchen remodel. It is the "plumbed" version (model no. DGC6705XL24). Have had Miele reps out twice now to no avail to fix a problem with the oven not draining properly after cooking. The residual water after steam cooking just sits there on the bottom with a plugged drain hole. After many hours of research and investigation with our contractor, we found the issue which is this: the built-in drain pump cannot develop enough head pressure to move the water column in the drainage line even when installed in compliance with Miele's specs. So be very careful when you install this guy. If you get the 'plumbed' version, it needs a drain line that ties into your kitchen drain tap, usually under the sink. Miele's installation instructions say that the drain line can have a maximum vertical climb height of 19 1/4", such as from the bottom floor of your undersink cabinet up to a drain tap. Not true! The pump on these units CANNOT push a water column that high. The drain line must be downward sloping or flat pretty much the entire way to the drain for the waste water to exit the oven, else after a couple steamings the water column will back up & you will get a lovely smelling pool of resting water at the bottom of your oven and a plugged line. Our install was well within Miele specs, and the two reps who came out thought we were crazy and our contractor had done something wrong. Well.... we're not, and he did not. Miele's engineering team needs to upgrade the drain pumps on these units, or change their install specs, because it has been very frustrating to own this nearly $5,000 oven and see standing water in it all the time. Re-routing the drain line so it routes down under the house to the main sewage outlet seemed to solve the problem. But what a PITA.

    But hey, other than that, we love it ;-). Cooks great, the vegetables have flavors you'll never taste with traditional cooking. Like restaurant quality.

    Miele: if you're reading this, save your customers some heartache and please put a more powerful drain pump in v2.0.

    You can see our oven in the right corner of this picture of our finished remodel, on top of the Miele Convection Oven we also got (which has been great):


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