Simplify Cooking with Appliances that Multitask

Buy based on how you cook most days.

When buying appliances, people often focus on two days of the year: Thanksgiving and Christmas.

What matters at that moment to you is finding a range whose oven accommodates a massive turkey.

Or, thinking about overflow casseroles and Christmas cookies, you opt for double ovens.

But what about the other 363 days of the year? If you’re not a serious baker, that second oven sits cold. And warming up that range with the huge oven capacity for a couple of baked potatoes wastes time and energy.

Appliances that Multitask

Instead, a trend we’re seeing is assembling a team of appliances that can work alone during normal operations but also can multitask for occasional holidays and parties.

So instead of a giant range, combine a double oven range and convection microwave.

The smaller upper oven of the range can be used for one-dish meals. Come Christmas, you can bake a dessert up top while a roasts monopolizes the lower oven. The convection microwave can bake a casserole.
A convection microwave also works overtime when paired with a single oven, perfect for those who won’t make enough use of a double oven.

Better yet, make that second oven a speed oven for the ultimate versatility.


This GE Advantium cooks up to 4 times faster than your grandmother’s oven – covering all 4 bases: warming/proofing, true convection, sensor microwave (that can rotate a 9×13 casserole on its turntable!) and of course, speed cooking.

Win a Frigidaire Double Oven Range

A double oven range sure comes in handy if you want to quickly cook one small dish and especially for cooking multiple dishes at two separate temperatures for a Thanksgiving crowd.

Stop drooling. You can enter to win this Frigidaire Gallery double oven range (FGEF306TMF – we sell it for $1,699!) over your lunch break this week.

Visit Frigidaire’s Facebook page (facebook.com/frigidaire) at 11 a.m. CST this Wendesday, Nov. 23 to watch live streaming of  Celebrity Food Network Chefs Anne Burrell (Mario Batali’s crazy-haired sous chef on Iron Chef America) and Geoffrey Zakarian (of Chopped) compete in the Double or Nothing Holiday Challenge in Times Square.

People everywhere can watch and vote for their favorite Chef to be entered for a chance to win the new range.  AND for every vote, Frigidaire is donating $1 to Save the Children.

Following the event, you can find recipes and videos on Facebook, so stayed tuned.