More Oven Silliness

On Saturday, hubs and I went off to the "discount" appliance store. Basically, they have all the bougie appliances and then they "discount" them so they are within, maybe, the realm of affordable but you feel like you're getting a deal because you were never going to buy a Thermador any other way.

I did not buy a Thermador.

We have actually purchased other (normal) brands from them, but apparently when it comes to wall ovens, they only do the higher than high end of things.

So we were looking around and I was dismissing high end brands out of hand (not necessarily because I wouldn't like said brand but because I'm just not spending what a car costs on an oven) and a salesguy wanders over.

He does his whole spiel and points out that they're selling floor models at a huge discount. (And I mean discount yes, huge? Meh.)

Anyway, we explain the whole idea of embiggening the hole to do double ovens instead of another combo and he does the whole "oh then we'd have to come do an evaluation and they still might not do it" like Lowe's did - except Lowe's was going to be $35 and this place was going to be $150. And it's probably the same people. But whatever.

Then he points out that in this Kitchen Aid here, the top oven is actually a convection oven in addition to a microwave, so it's not quite the same and yadda yadda and...well, he caught my interest.

Because it does microwave and it also convects with air. 

And according to the interweb reviews, it does both well instead of how sometimes things like this just do multiple things badly.

And yet. Kitchen Aid = $$$$ and so I wanted to ponder a little more. So we left.

And we have to drive literally past the Home Depot on our way and hubs says, "might as well stop and look" and he's not wrong. So we go in and HD has very few wall oven / combo options (same as Lowe's) but one they have is...Kitchen Aid?

I look at the features. I look at the model number. And it's the same? The exact same one? For $50 more I can get a new one rather than a floor model. 

So that seems like a no brainer (and I mean the floor model would probably be fine, but the other place still wanted to do the $150 "make sure it'll fit" appointment first and HD is like "If you're sure, we're sure.")

So yeah. Kitchen Aid oven comes tomorrow.

And now my appliances span the gamut of brands - Samsung (fridge), LG (dishwasher), Whirlpool (stovetop - and the last man standing of the original guys, so I should probably start researching that), and now Kitchen Aid.

If we were planning to sell...ever...I might worry about the mismash. But yeah. I don't.