3 Best Wall Ovens of 2026, Tested in Our Labs
These single- and double-oven models from brands like Café, GE, and LG aced our rigorous review process
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While many cooks overlook it, a wall oven offers distinct advantages over a range. Instead of combining an oven and a cooktop in one appliance, a free-standing oven grants you better placement, a wider array of features, and, yes, better baking and broiling performance.
“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.
- Best Wall Ovens: Single-Oven Double-Oven
- How CR Tests Wall Ovens
- How CR Picks the Best Wall Ovens
We bake cookies and cakes to test wall ovens. We also test their self-cleaning cycles.
Best Single-Oven Wall Ovens
The oven in a single-oven model is usually smaller than the ones you find in a range—2 to 3 cubic feet in usable capacity vs. 3 to 4 cubic feet.
Best Double-Oven Wall Oven
A double wall oven allows you to bake, roast, or broil at two different temperatures at once, which can be useful for large gatherings or holiday meal prep.
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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 truly gross proprietary mixture that includes shredded cheese, tapioca, and pie filling. We run the self-clean cycle to see how effectively each oven converts the baked-on gunk into a fine white powder that can be easily wiped away. The best models need a simple wiping only. 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.
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