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Which steam oven from Miele do you have? I'm considering upgrading to a water connection. But from your description, that doesn't seem very sensible.

We have a second oven, a 45cm appliance with steam. In fact, the use of steam cooking has pretty much died down, but it picks up again during asparagus season. Since it is a regular oven, cleaning is not a big issue, there is a drying program.

Pinky: DGC 6805 (now the 7845) But also take a look at the Gaggenau with water connection - I believe it doesn’t have that annoying cleaning problem. Visually it’s nicer anyway, and I also like the side flap better as a not too tall person.

guckguck: Asparagus was also the main topic for us, why we absolutely wanted a DG. Now let’s see if we then joyfully exclaim *g*

Asparagus is really good in the DG

, you also read more and more often in the "other" forum that the effort to use the DG or DGC is too great just to cook a few potatoes or cauliflower. The same goes for reheating. Working people don’t feel like setting up all the fuss in the evening; other tasks still need to be done.

I bought an all-in-one pressure cooker that can do more than just use steam pressure. These devices are inexpensive, have low power consumption, are easy to clean, and work excellently for all sorts of dishes, especially meat dishes. Unfortunately, they require a lot of storage space. Rice tastes good with steam pressure; Koreans and Japanese cook their rice that way.

A teppan would be too one-sided a device for me, and cleaning it wouldn’t be my thing either. I prefer high-quality, large pans that are more versatile to use.

From my research regarding the DG, these devices seem to be extremely popular in Austria because of the dumplings, which I can very well imagine.

Ask the pros in the other forum about the devices; they surely know how things stand.

On the topic of appliances and such:

At first, when choosing appliances, I was like : I simply found Gaggenau super beautiful.
Then I formulated requirements like : I wanted an all-rounder and ended up with the Siemens HN678G4S.
Often, I missed having a second oven when cooking. The device mentioned above can do "steam boost," which is great for bread or roasts, but it is not a steam cooker. So, I found a somewhat smaller steam cooker all-rounder at Siemens and took the Siemens GS658GRS7 as well.
Below that, the warming drawer for the plates.

We joked about the second cooking compartment when the big oven broke down after a few weeks and still didn’t work after the first repair and was then replaced. Unlucky, but BSH customer service was really fast and good. That was quite funny—especially since the device exploded live in front of the service technician during the second repair attempt (steam tank). He was unharmed but made an impressive face.

How do you use it? Is there anything where you say: Thank God I have the steam cooker now—without it, something would be missing?

Since the steam cooker also has oven functions, I wouldn’t want to do without the device just because of the second available cooking compartment. When used as a steam cooker, I mostly use it for vegetables or fish. I wouldn’t call the device indispensable; I enjoy it—of course, it’s not necessary.
I find the effort to fill and empty the water tank small, and the device is quickly wiped clean with a cloth after use. I haven’t thought about a water connection or drain for a second.

Thanks to for your teppanyaki report. I love this type of device and always stand in front of it wide-eyed. The presentation at Bora was charming! The reason we didn’t install it was threefold: my wife’s wise skepticism, the lack of heat compared to an iron pan on an induction hob, and that I, as a playboy, found pleasure in a free-surface induction hob. On this one, I can place up to 5 pots or pans freely and move them while cooking (e.g., the one steaming most strongly right now under the extractor hood (Falmec Marilyn) or the one I’m currently working on closer to me—the energy supply simply moves with it (Siemens EZ877K2Y1)).

What I also wouldn’t want to miss is boiling water from the tap—although today, after an unsatisfactory service experience, I would probably choose the Quooker and not the Grohe Red.