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[JoanneS]

After baking a bunch of cookies last night, I have an idea that someone should work on. Short people cannot always easily manage an oven with a door that opens downward. Sometimes, after I've opened the oven, it's difficult to put what I want to cook into the oven from so far away. I've tried accessing it from the side, but that's not always easy either. My aunt has the same issue. As she gets older, it's harder for her to keep her balance as she bends and reaches to get into the oven.

Can't someone invent an oven with French doors, or a door that opens like a car door? That way I could get closer to the oven itself and make it less likely that I lose my balance and fall onto a hot door.

Sorry, just had to vent.

[Pax]

What might work for you, is if you can find a long-handled spatula with some hooks/notches on the side. You can sometimes find it with outdoor-barbecue gear. You would use that, and the notch / hoke, to pull the rack out of the oven towards you, and to push that rack back into the oven.

The prolem with a "french door" approach, you see, is that the junction between the doors would be VERY difficult to properly seal and insulate. On two-door refridgerators, there's an extra bit on the left-hand door that pivots about, and provides BOTH doors a surface to seal against when that left-hand door is closed.

Now, a door that came out, and SLID SIDEWAYS (like a van door), or even lifted vertically upwards or downwards, might be more workable. I'm not enough of an engineer to actually work out the hinge apparatus necessary to do that, but I can at least envision the door working that way.

Alternately, a door that hinged down as normal - but then SLID IN, under the oven ...? Or perhaps above the oven? Or opened sideways, then slid inwards on that side?

[Carousel96]

Doesn't someone make a built in wall oven with french doors?

Updated: Just Googled it. They're out there, but spendy http://www.google.com/products/catal...ed=0CG0Q8wIwAg#

[CinderAbby]

Since those are the types of doors all our school kitchen ovens have (as well as all the restaurants I've seen on tv) , it's technically already been invented. I agree though, something like that would be good for the home market. I'm only in my 30's but because of ear problems, I find I already have balance problems and it's not fun when it happens when I'm cooking.

[Ashli]

Yep, the French Door oven thing has already been invented. My mom has one.

[my2girls]

Paula Deen has an oven with french doors in her home.

[Colexis Mom]

Most commercial and high end kitchens have the french door ovens (I've watched enough Food Networks shows and see them all the time)! I could use one myself!

[Teresa]

DD Samantha and her DH have ovens that open up like a door - not French doors. They have them because being quadriplegics they can't lean in and pull things out of a regular oven. They had pull out shelves installed under the ovens for rests.

I don't know what brand they have, but they're like these:
24 Inch Convection Oven | Side Opening | Fagor

[JoanneS]

Originally Posted by Carousel96

Doesn't someone make a built in wall oven with french doors?

Updated: Just Googled it. They're out there, but spendy American Range AROFG-30 Residential Oven. Legacy 30" Single French#

The problem is I don't have a kitchen that will accomodate a wall oven. I need the kind that most homes have that sit on the floor. But, then again, even if I found this magic oven, I'd have to find the funds to purchase it.

[Cam22]

I would love to have one with french doors, too!

[MBUS]

We have a Gaggenau oven (previous owners put it in) and it opens to the side, like a car door. It's nice, because the hinge broke on one side, so the repair man was able to flip the door over and now it opens to the right instead of to the left. (Cheaper than getting a new oven!) It is not a wall oven, but not really a stand alone either. Kinda built in, it's separate from the range.

Beth