Gaggenau isn't just thinking out of the box with its newest oven design; it is actually changing the way the box opens.
The Gaggenau's new lift oven's front panel doesn't open like a typical oven door. It can't. There is no door. Instead, the bottom of the oven actually raises and lowers for loading and unloading food. So homeowners can forget about navigating around someone pulling a turkey out of an open oven or reaching into a hot oven to see if their brownies are ready to come out.
The 24-inch oven uses its LiftMatic function to raise and lower the glass ceramic base. The company claims that this oven actually reduces heat loss when you open the oven, since heat rises into the oven, instead of out into the room.
Built to sit inside top cabinets or on kitchen walls, the oven offers 11 heating methods and has a stainless-steel-tinted glass front. The lift oven will be available in July 2007.
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