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    Best Wall Ovens of 2025

    CR has tested dozens of electric wall ovens from brands including Café, GE, and LG. These are the best single- and double-oven models.

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    LG WSEP4727F wall oven in kitchen with grey cabinets and brass handles
    The LG WSEP4727F wall oven is equipped with a temperature probe for more precise cooking, touchscreen controls, and convection and air-fry modes.
    Photo: LG

    A wall oven offers a number of advantages over a range that combines a cooktop and an oven in one appliance.

    “It allows you to get great performance from each appliance instead of trying to find a single range that excels at everything,” says Kenneth Sutton, who leads the testing of wall ovens, cooktops, and ranges at CR.

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    In addition, you can install a wall oven just about anywhere in your kitchen and at your preferred height so that you don’t have to bend over to, say, remove a heavy roast. This also offers more design flexibility when you’re remodeling a kitchen, because you can install the wall oven and cooktop in separate areas, creating a dedicated workspace for each.

    We test electric wall ovens because they make up the vast majority of wall ovens sold. In our testing of ranges, we also find that electric ovens often outperform their gas counterparts, particularly when it comes to high-heat broiling.

    If you’re looking for more information on how to shop for a wall oven, start with our buying guide. CR members can also jump right into our wall oven and cooktop ratings, which include over 100 cooktops and over 70 wall ovens. Read on for five of the best single and double electric wall ovens from our tests and learn how we select the highest performing models.

    Best Single-Oven Wall Ovens

    Single wall ovens are usually smaller than the ones you find on a range—2 to 3 cubic feet in usable capacity vs. 3 to 4 cubic feet. 

    Best Double-Oven Wall Ovens

    Double wall ovens allow you to bake, roast, or broil at two different temperatures at the same time, which can be particularly useful for large gatherings or preparing holiday meals.

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    How CR Tests Wall Ovens

    To put a wall oven through its paces, our experts use a combination of calibrated time and temperature measurements that size up how evenly an oven distributes heat for baking, broiling, and self-cleaning.

    Our test engineers bake over 400 cakes and 2,400 cookies each year, looking for the models that do the best job baking on multiple racks. We also measure the usable capacity of every oven, meaning the space from the bottom rack position to the top, to see how much space you’ll actually have to bake and roast—many manufacturers include unusable space below the bottom rack when they provide information on oven size.

    Finally, we make the oven as grimy as possible to test the self-clean cycle, baking on a proprietary mixture that includes shredded cheese, tapioca, and pie filling. We run the self-clean to see how effectively each oven converts the baked-on gunk to fine white powder that can easily be wiped away. The best need only a simple wiping. The worst require lots of scrubbing and still don’t come fully clean.

    How CR Picks the Best Wall Ovens

    The experts at Consumer Reports have tested dozens of wall ovens, including single and double electric wall ovens. Here’s what the top performers in our tests have in common.

    They bake evenly. The most crucial function of an oven is baking, and the best wall ovens from our tests bake evenly on multiple racks, regardless of what you’re cooking.

    They broil well. Many ovens struggle to broil evenly, and still more never get hot enough to sear. The wall ovens featured in this article do both with ease.

    They hold a lot of food. Manufacturers love to make claims about the size of their ovens, often counting unusable space (like beneath the lowest rack) in their claimed capacities. We measure the space you can actually use and give top marks to models with the most usable capacity.

    They’re reliable. Great performance isn’t worth much if you can’t depend on your oven to maintain its performance in the long run. The models in this roundup have above-average long-term reliability.


    Paul Hope

    Paul Hope is a Home & DIY Editor at Consumer Reports and a trained chef. He covers ranges, cooktops, and wall ovens, as well as grills, drills, outdoor power tools, decking, and wood stains. Before joining CR in 2016, he tested kitchen products at Good Housekeeping and covered tools and remodeling for This Old House magazine. You’ll typically find him in his old fixer-upper, engrossed in a DIY project or trying out a new recipe.

    Allen St. John

    Allen St. John has been a senior product editor at CR since 2016, focusing on digital privacy, audio devices, printers, and home products. He was a senior editor at Condé Nast and a contributing editor at publications including Road & Track and The Village Voice. A New York Times bestselling author, he's also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Montclair, N.J., with his wife, their two children, and their dog, Rugby.