Kitchen being redone. We are a household of 3 (one a young teen).
Cook from scratch most nights plus baking once a week, due to allergies and health-related diets: almost always in single oven. To be honest, double is only used if batch cooking a load of cakes or three trays of biscuits.
Microwave used every weeknight to reheat dinner due to different work patterns/kids clubs etc.
Slow cooker used once a week to batch cook for freezer.
Breadmaker used once a week.
I'm thinking of buying an airfryer.
Kitchen isn't going to be enormous and we need to save every penny possible!
Based on all that, I'm considering not bothering with a double oven at all. Is that mad?
If I use the double, it's only full because I want to not waste heating all that space, but it's so rare that I actually need a double.
So if I had a single oven with grill, plus a microwave in a tower, then I was going to have space next to the hob for whichever small appliance (air fryer, slow cooker etc) I need that day - and those would be in a cupboard next to the hob so easy to use.
It feels like it would be enough: even if we had 2 families for dinner, a chicken or curry fits in the slow cooker, roast veg in single oven and rice on the hob, etc.
What do you think?