Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 Oven Review: Perfect all-round cooking

Verdict

A really good built-in oven, the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 has all of it, together with built-in steam, temperature probe, good management and the good Slide and Disguise door that makes it simple to load and unload the door. A sensible touchscreen interface (with non-obligatory Twist Pad Flex integration), pyrolytic cleansing and good temperature management make this an important selection for individuals who like to prepare dinner and don’t wish to compromise on appears.

Introduction

Neff is in regards to the pleasure of cooking, and the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 Oven supplies each potential mode you may need (steam, grill, fan, temperature probe and extra), all packaged inside a beautiful-looking built-in oven.

With a Neff Slide and Disguise door, this oven can also be tremendous simple to load and unload.

Design and options

• Flex design gives swappable handles and trim
• Slide and Disguise door
• Sensible app management

A part of Neff’s Flex Design vary, the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 Oven has a selection of trims and handles (brushed bronze, deep black, metallic silver and anthracite gray), so you possibly can fashion it as much as match different home equipment within the vary, such because the Neff N90 T66YYY4C0 hob.

Pair this with an built-in microwave oven or one other full-size oven, and there’s even a taller trim that surrounds each home equipment to make them appear to be one.

The very first thing to say about this oven is the Slide and Disguise door. I’ve lengthy been a fan of this design and have an older mannequin at residence. For those who’ve not seen it earlier than, the Slide and Disguise door pulls open like a daily oven door after which slides into a spot on the backside of the oven.

Not having a big door to lean over makes it far simpler to load and unload the oven. After I use an oven with out this mechanism, I actually miss it. Belief me, it’s not a gimmick, it’s a genuinely useful addition.

Inside this oven, there’s a complete of 71 litres of area. Even with the area required for the door mechanism, Neff has nonetheless supplied as a lot area as you’d get on an oven with a daily door, such because the AEG BPK948330M.

Neff supplies a single-wire shelf (two would have been good), plus a common pan and an enamel baking tray. There’s one telescopic rail, plus two extra well-spaced shelf rails.

Management is thru the touchscreen show, which I discovered very responsive.

For those who don’t like this, then you should buy a Twist Pad Flex and magnetically join it to both aspect of the display screen, rotating it to pick out choices.

Get two Twist Pad Flex, and you need to use one for navigation and one to alter settings. They do make management quicker than utilizing the touchscreen, so it could be good to see one within the field.

With a magnet holding this on, the Twist Pad Flex might be swapped between any suitable equipment, together with different ovens and hobs.

Normal oven modes embody high/backside warmth, circo therm (fan), light circo therm, high/backside warmth light, circo roasting, circo therm intensive, bread-baking, full-surface grill, backside warmth, low-temperature cooking, plate warming, dough proving, and preserve heat.

Choose a mode, and you may set the temperature and cooking time. To assist, every mode has an info button that tells you what it does.

Most modes are suitable with the temperature probe, which plugs into the aspect of the oven. I discovered it greatest to plug this in earlier than the oven will get sizzling, because the socket is slightly fiddly to achieve.

With the probe related, you possibly can set a goal temperature, with the oven shutting down mechanically when it detects that your meals is on the good temperature.

Cleverly, the oven reveals an estimated prepare dinner time on display screen, which adjusts mechanically and will get extra correct after 10 to fifteen minutes of beginning a prepare dinner. At the beginning of the prepare dinner, the display screen reveals its present error margin, comparable to +/-35m; as time goes on, this estimate is changed by an actual prepare dinner time.

In any mode, when the goal temperature is reached or the timer reaches zero, you possibly can select to complete, add additional cooking time, preserve heat or relaxation, with the latter displaying a timer to see how lengthy your meals has rested for.

Most modes are additionally suitable with the steam mode. Steady steam might be added with a choice of three ranges, including moisture to the cooking course of. Or there’s Steam Jet, which shoots a short-term addition of steam, which is right for breads and rolls

Have a look at the oven and it’s not obvious the place the water reservoir is. Faucet the icon on the right-hand aspect of the display screen, and the entrance panel gently lifts as much as reveal the reservoir beneath. Over-engineered? Maybe, nevertheless it retains the oven wanting modern and appears cool in operation.

Past the handbook modes, the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 has a sequence of automated cooking choices for widespread meals, comparable to potatoes, hen and beef.

Some cooking modes have two choices: one with out the probe (it’s a must to enter the burden of the meals) and one with a probe (the perfect goal temperature is pre-set). Those that wish to take management received’t want these modes, however they could be a good approach to get began and be taught a bit extra about what this oven is able to.

It’s simple to regulate what’s cooking, due to the brilliant inner gentle and the massive glass panel on the door.

Suitable with the Residence Join app, the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 might be distant managed and monitored over Wi-Fi. I just like the app for 2 causes. First, it offers notifications when the oven reaches temperature or the tip of a cooking cycle. Secondly, the app totally explains what the entire choices, comparable to crisp end, do.

A number of cleansing modes can be found, together with Straightforward Clear, which makes use of water to create steam to assist dislodge grime, to pyrolytic cleansing, the place the oven will get tremendous sizzling and burns grease off.

Efficiency

• Wonderful temperature management
• Precision cooking
• Steam helps keep moisture

An oven’s high quality is basically all the way down to how evenly it will probably warmth, and the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 is outstanding. Setting the oven to 200°C, I stuffed a baking tray with ceramic beads.

Leaving them within the centre of the oven, I measured the entrance of the tray at 194.8°C and the again at 201.2°C. That’s little or no variation. Utilizing a thermal digital camera, you possibly can see how evenly the warmth is distributed: barely hotter (and whiter) on the again the place the fan is; barely cooler in the direction of the entrance.

Shifting the tray to the highest shelf, I noticed an identical sample: 199°C on the entrance and 204.8°C on the rear. Once more, the thermal picture reveals simply how evenly the oven heats.

Cooking a batch of oven chips demonstrates simply how good this oven is, with the chips popping out brilliantly even, with a pleasant crisp end to the surface.

I measured the oven utilizing simply 0.365kWh of energy (not together with heat-up time), which is a piece much less energy than rivals have utilized in the identical check. That reveals that the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 deserves its A+ effectivity ranking.

Subsequent, I cooked a hen breast, utilizing the temperature probe, with the goal temperature set to 74°C. Rooster might be liable to drying out, however the Neff N90 B69VY7MY0 cooked my breast brilliantly, retaining moisture all through.

Steam cooking proved its value when tackling a baguette: a pleasant crisp exterior with a comfortable and fluffy inside, all managed simply with out the mess and hazard of including sizzling water to a baking tray manually.

Testing the grill, I put six slices of bread on a shelf, unfold out evenly beneath the grill. On the finish of my cooking time, every slice was completely cooked, displaying that this oven has an excellent edge-to-edge grill.

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