Now We're Cookin'

It was finally time to put our new convection oven/range in its place. It had been sitting in the middle of the living room for weeks. We were done painting the lower kitchen cabinets (to be posted on soon) so it was finally safe to install it.
Here it is with the box off. You'll notice that the sides are exposed. This is because the whole unit slides in and the sides are not ever seen. We had to actually disconnect it from the bottom of its box so we could move it into place. (Do you like our entertainment center on the left?)


Here we are trying to lift it off of the base of the box. It is tricky doing this without breaking the top.


Once we got it to the opening, I slid in behind to connect the gas line.


You always want to use this special pipe sealant to avoid gas leaks. We wouldn't want that...


Now you just push it in... easier said than done.


To lower the top you just retract the wheels using your power screw driver.


This may require getting on the ground. If you are lucky, it will lower nicely and make contact with the counter on all three sides. This one gave us some trouble, but after a lot of tweaking, I got it to fit perfectly. (Tweaking required a couple of screws, a hammer, and a shop vac).


All of the grates and shelves are on the inside for shipping. We'll leave them in there until we are ready to turn this thing on and really get cookin'.


Here it is sitting nicely on the counter. This "Slide-In" model is great becuase the controls are all on the front and nothing stands up in the back which would interfere with the bar top. Doesn't it look great with the color of the bar top? The front is stainless steal. It has a white protective film on it in this picture.

For now we are keeping all of the protective cardboard and film on until we finish up the remaining kitchen details. Stay tuned to see what it looks like with the rest of the completed kitchen. Come over and we might just bake you some cookies (on the "Convection Bake" setting of course).