A Quick Review of Viking Wall Ovens

You never imagined that your crowning achievement in life would be to remodel your kitchen, but here you are.

For years you have lived with a kitchen that is cramped, out of date, and far below you and your family’s needs. You’ve put up with cheap countertops, worn out flooring, and ugly cabinets. You have been kept up at night dreaming of a center island and a refrigerator that fits all of your groceries.

Finally, your dreams are coming true. You are upgrading your kitchen and revolutionizing your life. As you tick down the list of all the things you need to change, you suddenly remember your oven.

No, you didn’t leave it on. You forgot that your oven needs an upgrade too.

After all, your oven does a lot. You have worked that oven of yours hard, and in turn, you have put in practically a lifetime of bending and checking. Think of all the things that you have put into your oven. Think of all the turkeys, vegetables, and cookies that you have lowered in and out of your oven. The numbers are astounding.

It turns out you’ve probably spent way more time than you realized stooped over your oven checking on the progress of your meals and desserts. It might make your back hurt just thinking about it, so when you’re dreaming of your upgraded kitchen, think about an oven that gets you standing up straight.

A wall oven just might change your life, especially if you use your oven often. Wall ovens look clean and classic, they’re easy to use, and they help you make the most of your kitchen space. Wall ovens are great, but you still need to make sure you have the right one.

Remember, it took you a pretty long time to get this kitchen upgrade, and it might feel like a once in a lifetime event, so you have to make it count.

Reviewing the Viking Wall Oven

Viking is a trusted name in ovens, and Viking wall ovens have the quality, performance, and features that you need to transform your kitchen into the kind of cooking paradise that you always knew that it could be.

There are lots of great Viking wall ovens to choose from, but a great place to start is with their Professional Series 30” Premium Electric Wall Oven. It is indicative of all the great features you’ll find from Viking and a great place to start your oven research.

A High-Performance Oven

The first and most important thing to consider when picking your new oven is how well it actually cooks and bakes. Anyone who uses an oven often knows that it is completely acceptable for a poor baker to blame their oven. Baking is totally different than carpentry, and a good, or bad oven makes all the difference.

Ovens that work poorly are those that don’t provide an even bake, can’t maintain their temperature, and can’t accurately achieve their temperature, to begin with. Poor ovens are ones that you can’t trust, or rely on.

To you, this makes perfect sense. You know your oven. You know which side of it is hotter than the other. You know the difference between what temperature you set your oven at versus what temperature it actually is. You know what cook times are reasonable and which ones simply won’t work. In fact, you have probably never left a cookie in your oven for more than 8 minutes because you know. No matter what the recipe says, you know.

Viking wall ovens are loyal and reliable. They can be your new best friend, and the Pro Series Viking wall oven shows you how.

It all starts with its rapid preheat system that gets you up and running quickly. Some ovens, especially electric ones like this, seem to take ages to reach the right temperature, so a rapid preheat feature is a real necessity and a real lifesaver. You can’t spend all your time waiting for the oven to heat up.

This rapid pre-heat feature is something you’ll find in a lot of Viking wall ovens, and it can help you out of a jam. On those nights when you get home late from work and have to try to put a home cooked meal on the table quickly you, won’t be pacing back and forth in front of your oven.

It also means that you don’t have to put items into an oven that isn’t ready. You’ve definitely done this before, but you know it’s not the best cooking method. If you don’t wait for your oven to reach the proper temperature you have much less control of the cooking process, and you have to watch your oven even more closely.

Take Advantage of TruConvec

It also features TruConvec convection cooking which is a patented system of air circulation that uses one convection element in the rear of the oven and fan-forced air to circulate the heat throughout the oven. Your food is enveloped by heat rather than having heat blasted on it from above or below as in so many other ovens.

You also have the option of using the Vari-speed dual flow convection to maximize the airflow throughout the oven. The two-speed convection system can turn the fan in both directions. More airflow in your oven means a more even bake. It means gone are the days of rotating your pan each time you check on your food. It means gone are the days of cookies that are always darker on one half.

You also get the use of a 10-pass broiler system and a concealed 10-pass bake element both of which ensure that you get the precision you need to perfectly heat all of your foods.

The high-density insulation on the Viking wall oven also helps it hold its temperature and conserve energy. Proper insulation is key, and it is a huge factor when it comes to how your oven performs.

By wrapping your food in constant hot air, the Viking helps them cook faster, more evenly, and simply better.

A Large Capacity Oven

One of the first things you want to look for in your new oven is how much cooking and baking space you will get. Space is hugely important, especially if you use your oven often. You’re not just looking for a room for the occasional frozen pizza on a flat pan. You want room for roasts, turkeys, breads, and muffins that rise way above their baking pans.

You know that there are people who can bake 2 casserole dishes side by side in their oven, and you want to be one of those people. You want to have the freedom to make a vegetable lasagna and a meat lasagna at the same time.

All Viking wall ovens are equipped with one of the largest oven capacities of any oven on the market. They boast that you can cook enough food to have plenty of leftovers, but it also means you can cook enough to fill a table for your dinner party, or simply feed your hungry family on a daily basis.

This Viking wall oven gives you 4.7 cubic feet of room to cook and bake whatever your heart desires without running out of room. You probably can’t say the same for your current oven.

Easy to Use Oven Racks

Of course, space is not the only factor when it comes to what you can put in your oven. You also have to consider the oven racks themselves. You have probably battled with your share of oven racks. They never seem to be in the right position, and you never seem to have enough of them.

Up until this point, you, like most people have probably had to get by with just 2 oven racks. That means the third oven rack offered with the Viking wall oven Pro Series is going to blow your mind and change your life.

You get 6 rack positions to choose from and 3 porcelain-coated heavy-duty racks that can support that brisket you’ve been eyeing and so much more.

One of the 3 racks is also a patented TruGlide extension rack that rolls out of the oven to make loading and unloading a breeze. How many times have you put a dent in a perfect cake, or smeared your beautiful pizza toppings because you had to juggle getting them into the oven?

It’s especially hard if you need to take an item out halfway through to check on it or baste it. It’s nearly impossible to finagle your hot dish back onto a hot rack without meeting with burns or near disaster.

With a TruGlide rack, you don’t have to take your food, or your life, in your own hands.

Made for Busy People

Even though you love to use your oven, it doesn’t mean you have hours of your day that you can languish away watching your oven work. In fact, it is miraculous that you find the time to cook and bake in the first place.

You’re busy, just like everyone else, but you still believe in sit-down dinners made by hand and chocolate chip cookies that come from a mixing bowl and not a plastic sleeve.

To achieve those kinds of rigid standards you need an oven that can pick up some slack for you when you get really busy.

The Viking wall ovens like the Pro Series 5 have a timed bake feature that you can set up to 24 hours in advance.

That means you can let your bread rise in the oven overnight, set the bake time, and wake up to freshly baked bread. The oven shuts off at the programmed time, and everyone gets to enjoy the smell of bread to pull them out of bed.

You can probably think of a 100 different ways that having a programmable start and end time can help take the pressure off of your day, and once you start you’ll wonder how you ever got along without such a smart oven.

Of course, when it comes to working hard, your oven has to clean as well as it bakes, and this Viking is fully self-cleaning with an indicator light that goes on once it’s finished. That’s a huge help. No more oven cleaning fumes, no more yellow rubber gloves up to your elbows, and no more useless scrubbing. You have more important things to do than clean your oven.

Choose a Mode for Every Food

Most people’s ovens have 2 settings: undercooked and burned.

But Viking wall ovens have nearly a dozen different options to choose from to make sure that the right method is just a push of a button away. You can select from TruConvec, and convection roast, bake, broil, dehydrate, and defrost. You also have the conventional oven modes of bake and 3 levels of broil.

These modes are all about precision, which is a mainstay of the Viking brand. These are appliances that are built with professionals in mind, and they function at high levels to make sure every customer is satisfied.

Satisfied customers come from an oven that can tenderly cook a pot roast, char some red peppers until their skin is blackened and crispy, and delicately brown a sponge cake until its cooked thoroughly but still light as air.

These are not results that come from simply winding a dial to a temperature and leaving it at that. These are results that come from using a fine-tuned machine that understands that baking and roasting are about more than just heat.

A Reliable Oven Makes All the Difference

The Pro Series Viking wall oven is beautiful, reliable, revolutionary, and a perfect example of what the Viking name has to offer. It will change the way you use your oven, and it will improve the quality of the food you make. If you are lucky enough to be upgrading your old oven to something newer, smarter, and better, Viking wall ovens are a great place to start.

Viking Double Oven Review

Oh, the double oven! Do you even dare to dream of the possibility of having a kitchen with a double oven?

Thinking about it is like saying your birthday wish out loud. If you concentrate on it too much, it won’t come true, and boy do you want it to come true. With 2 ovens you could be twice as productive. Actually, you’d be even more productive than that because you would use your new ovens way more than you ever used your clunky old single oven.

There might not be statistics available on this, but it’s a pretty safe bet that people with double ovens do about 10 times the cooking and baking as other people.

This is probably because people with double ovens are really passionate about their oven fare.

You know you are. You love to bake. You love making breads, pies, cookies, and cakes. You love trying new recipes and exploring new ways to make meals your family will enjoy. But aside from a love of cooking and baking you also have a deep love of efficiency and multi-tasking.

That’s what makes the double oven your appliance soul mate. It gives you the freedom to do more of what you love without cutting corners or wasting any of your valuable time.

All the Specs on a Viking Double Oven

But if you are going to spring for the extra expense of a double oven, you need to know that you are getting something that is not only efficient and convenient but also good quality.

Viking is a trusted name in professional grade kitchen appliances and they have double ovens that are so good they can make your heart skip a beat. They have several series of double ovens, but let’s take a look at the series 5 Built-In Electric Double Select oven, and see how it stacks up.

Unparalleled Cooking Power

The first and most important thing about choosing your new oven is finding a model that can actually cook your food evenly and reliably. When you set your temperature you want to know that it is accurate, and you need to be able to trust it to cook accordingly.

That means heat that wraps your food up like a warm hug.

The Viking’s TruConvec system uses a cooking element in the rear of the oven and fan-forced air to heat the unit. That means that whatever you are heating is not exposed to heat from the top or the bottom.

Instead, it is enveloped in heat. The hot air comes at it from every angle instead of being limited by the top or bottom as with so many other ovens. That warm hug gives you a nice even bake, and you can trust that the internal temperature is uniform throughout.

This Viking double wall oven also benefits from the patented Vari-speed dual flow convection system that helps to maximize that airflow. The large convection blade blows air in both directions to provide more even cooking and a fluffier bake.

Large and in Charge

The Series 5 double oven features one of the largest capacities of any available oven. It has 6 rack positions to choose from, and it comes with 3 porcelain-coated racks including a TruGlide full extension rack.

Since you bake a lot you know just how important those rack positions are. If you’re lucky you might have 3 positions to use on your existing oven, but you hardly ever bother changing them. It’s such a hassle to get them to move, and your oven is so small that once you move one rack you’ve pretty much guaranteed that you can’t use the other rack.

But that’s where size matters. With such a large oven capacity and 3 racks instead of the standard 2, you have more room to do more of what you love.

More room in your oven means more roasts. It means more potlucks, more dishes, and more time gathering around good food with the people that you love. For some homeowners ovens are decorative. They exist to heat an occasional frozen pizza.

You are not that kind of homeowner. Your oven is for cooking, and this Viking double oven has the cooking capacity to support anything from a restaurant kitchen to your bustling household.

The TruGlide oven rack is also a major key to your cooking success. You know the story all too well of what happens when a hot pan full of food is lowered in and out of hot oven with a blazing hot oven rack.

You’ve met with disaster too many times during this perilous exchange to not appreciate the TruGlide value. The oven rack slides out on stainless steel ball bearings to make it a synch to get things in and out of the oven. You won’t get burned literally or figuratively anymore with a rolling oven rack on your side.

Easily Keep an Eye on Your Oven

Everything about these ovens is engineered to make your cooking and baking experience better, smarter, and easier. The viewing window is even 20% wider than on standard ovens, which means you can easily see how all your food is doing.

How many times have you had to stop, bend down, slide out your food, and examine it from all angles because your oven window is so hard to see into? Tiny viewing windows make it difficult to see how evenly everything is cooking, and they force you to constantly interrupt the process just to gauge progress.

These Viking double ovens also feature improved halogen lighting to make it even easier to see inside and see what is happening. Again, you can spend less time pulling dishes out of the oven, and more time simply observing them with the heavy-duty door closed nice and tight.

You don’t have to disturb your dishes to get a good look at them, and you don’t have to affect the temperature of the oven by constantly opening it and closing.

With time you will learn to trust your eyes, and the large, well-lit windows on your ovens will give you a tremendous sense of comfort as you complete your cooking tasks.

It is a Hard Working Oven

The series 5 Viking double oven is self-cleaning with a handy indicator light to let you know when the job is done. If you spend time scrubbing your oven clean with a can of not so Easy-Off you can’t imagine how much a true self-cleaning oven can change your life.

It’s especially important when you have twice as much oven to clean.

But the hard work of this Viking double oven doesn’t stop at cleaning. It features rapid ready preheating, so that you can all get down to work a little faster. You know the dread of forgetting to pre-heat your oven and then watching slowly and painfully as it ticks up the degrees.

The rapid preheat time can really help you out of the jam. Whether you simply forgot to turn the oven or whether you’re in a rush, you can count on the oven to get going fast.

Waiting for your oven to pre-heat can seem to take eons, and when you are trying to get dinner on the table, every second counts. You and your family are busy. It’s hard enough as it is to gather everyone together for a meal before meetings, soccer games, and play practice pull them away. Don’t miss out on precious time together just because your oven takes forever to preheat.

This double oven also goes the extra mile with its programmable Timed Bake setting. You can actually program your oven up to 24 hours ahead of time to start baking at a selected temperature for a programmed amount of time. The oven shuts off when the time is up.

This revolutionary idea means that you can prep your items ahead of time, pop them in the oven, program the bake, and come back to find your food is ready and waiting.

This feature comes in handy when you are cooking a lot of food for a lot of people, or when you have an item that needs to spend a long time in the oven. Instead of waking up at 4 in the morning get that slow roasted brisket started, why not program the oven, catch some extra z’s and let the Viking work for you?

It’s also great if you have a brunch or breakfast planned for a lot of people or if you have to get food started when you aren’t around. Rather than entrusting the oven job to your teenagers or spouse who probably can’t tear themselves away from their phones, you can set your trusty oven.

Choose More than Just Temperature

If your old oven is like most old ovens you probably can barely read the temperatures listed on the knobs let alone make any other adjustments, but the series 5 Viking double oven allows you to choose from several different cooking modes.

You can choose from convection cooking, convection roast, convection broil, convection bake, conventional bake and 3 a 3-level conventional broil.

All these various modes ensure that you can get the precise temperature for every single thing that goes into your oven, and you can choose the method that works the best for it too.

Cooking and baking require more than the right temperature, you need the right kind of heat in the right way. You can perfect your crispy garlic bread on the broil setting in one oven, and you can convection roast your veggies in another. You get bread that is crispy, and you get vegetables that are tender, but with just the right amount of char.

Then when it’s time for your delicate dessert you can choose the convection bake option and wrap your soufflé in hot air that cradles its decadent airy bouffant as it rises out of your porcelain ramekin.

That’s what you get from Viking. You get an oven that is just as comfortable and capable of baking a finicky soufflé as it as a hearty brisket.

It Looks at Home Anywhere

Stainless steel appliances are the gold standard of appliances these days because they look sleek and modern in any setting. If you are fortunate enough to be remolding your entire kitchen this polished stainless steel double oven with its oversized stainless-steel knobs and the heavy-duty tubular handle will fit right in.

But even if you are simply upgrading your ovens, this modern look can add some pizzazz to your entire kitchen. You don’t have to pull out counter tops and redo cabinetry to give your kitchen a fresh look. This double oven can do it for you.

The oversized viewing windows that make it easy to check on your cooking also help give your ovens a nice refined look. The solid glass windows are striking, refreshing, and make your oven look professional. They raise the bar, and the appearance of these ovens even raises expectations.

When you use your professional-grade Viking double wall ovens you better bring you’re A-game in breads, pastries, and roasts.

An Oven that Doubles Everything

The Pro Series 5 Viking double oven is all about doing double takes and working double duty. It is a hard-working oven that happily takes some of the pressure of cooking and baking off of you. It provides a large cooking capacity, precision heating, and a mile long list of fun features. It can help you fall in love with your kitchen again, and it can also help you fall back in love with home cooked meals.