Bosch Double Oven

PhilNH5 · Mar 18, 2005

I know this is way way off topic but I always get good info at TBN.

We recently replaced a double wall oven with a Bosch 27" electric one. We brought this after only seeing it on-line. We need a double oven to fit in a brick wall. After weeks of visiting stores and doing online searches we found the Bosch. It is the only one that will fit in the opening in the brick wall. We had it installed this week.
I turned it on to burn off any smell and then shut it off. A jet off warm air was blowing out from just above each oven. A fan could be heard running. I thought it was the convection fan but it is not. I read the manual to no avail. I shut the thing off and on at the breaker box in the basement. The fan still blew warm air.

Finally I came across a one sentence statement in the manual. There is a cooling fan for the electronics. It will run even after ther oven is off until the unit is cooled.

This seems nuts to me. I am blowing hot air into the kitchen as I cook. I thought the Europeans were experts at saving energy but this seems like a huge waste.

Has anybody heard of this or familiar with it? I emailed some British freinds to see if they have any thoughts. I can't imagine cooking with this in the summer.

Phil

PhilNH5 · Mar 18, 2005

Got an answer from my British freinds. Guess I should have checked email first but TBN is my home page!!

He did a quick survey of neighbors. No one has a Bosch but they all have the "cooling" fan and yes it does heat the kitchen up in the summer. To them it is not an issue since all the ovens have it. In fact he was surprised to here that ovens in the US typically don't.

Phil

ByronBob · Mar 18, 2005

I don't have your model as I have a Jenn-Air propane 30" wall oven. I have something like you describe in my oven also.

If I'm cooking typically the fan won't come on. However if I'm cooking a turkey for example for 6 hours or a long time, this little fan will turn on to keep the electronic panel cool. It's thermostat controlled so you really have nothing to do.

If you think about it, it's really the same type of thing as you'd see in a computer. If the electronics got hot it could fry them. The fan is the safety net.

What little heat it generates and for the few minutes it's running shouldn't take much for you to get used to.

Enjoy your new oven..................

_RaT_ · Mar 18, 2005

That warm air it would seem to me is going to be in your kitchen either way. Slowly or just a little more quickly via the fan. Unless your oven was basically outside, it is in a conditioned space that it will heat. I think the fan may well help keep the electronics to a reasonable temperature which in turn may extend their lifespan as well as the accuracy of the oven temperature, just a guess.

GaryM · Mar 18, 2005

We have a one year old Kenmore electric wall oven. It too has the fan.

Docsknotinn · Mar 19, 2005

They should have the fan and it is a good thing. Ideally when deseigning a kitchen even wall ovens should be under a hooded vent. Even the Viking ranges have the fans that kick on at a certain temp and run after the equipment is shut down. The Bosch is a great piece of equipment although I prefer gas.

deereman63 · Mar 20, 2005

We havea bosch dishwasher does a great job but insists on beeping at us when its finished most annoying

Docsknotinn · Mar 21, 2005

I have a Bosch dish machine that does the same thing. The worse part is it doesn't stop. It just keeps beeping every few minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

CRJCaptain · Mar 21, 2005

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have a Bosch dish machine that does the same thing. The worse part is it doesn't stop. It just keeps beeping every few minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )</font>

Yes, this drives me nuts. I did figure out that to shut it up you have to walk over and open and reclose the door.

The Bosch is one of the quietest dishwashers when it's running though.

For what it's worth the Wolf double ovens do the running fan thing too until they're cool...must be a standard design thing.

Docsknotinn · Mar 23, 2005

If I open the door then I have to put the dishes away ! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
The funny thing is how the boss and I nip at each other about how to load the dish machine. Do other people do this to or are we just weird ? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif You are right about the Bosch being quiet. We are very pleased with the machine overall.