Which cooker would you get?

Would you get a single cavity oven like this:



or a double cavity:


And why?

My DH wants a gas oven with gas grill, but we also have to decide if we want to get single or double cavity.

Anyone own a Baumatic or Caple oven and have any views on them?  THANKS!

I'd get the double. I would really like to have 2 ovens especially when I'm cooking for other people. Unless you are going to cook very large cuts of meat, the split one should be fine size wise.

hmm, a single cavity would probably do me just fine as I would prefer the larger capacity for cooking turkeys etc rather than needing to cook things at different temperature or cooking things which need the oven kept closed.

I find having several shelves which are at different temps is enough of a temperature gradient for making roasts dinners etc, but then I don't really bake. I can imagine if you were baking desert with dinner or if you cook several batches of different baked goods the dual oven would be helpful.

I would worry that if I had a dual oven I'd always use the big one and never the smaller one and it would annoy me on turkey day.

Dunno! Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong. Both nice looking ovens though!

Double oven hands down. I personally wouldn't just own a single oven, and I would make sure that both ovens were fan ovens. I have a gorgeous Neff double, but the top isn't a fan oven, so I can't cook as well in it.

So if I am doing a roast, and my joint of meat and my roasties aren't done at the same time or the same temp, I can use both ovens. Or for instance I am doing a roast tonight and I will do my Yorkshire Puds in the smaller oven and my joint and roast potatoes in the big one.

Good luck, its a gorgeous cooker!

Double. Hands down. I was doing a roast chicken last night and was super irritated that I had to wait until the chicken was done to put the temperature up for the potatoes - and that's just one instance when I'd have loved to have a double! 

Double oven.  We use both of ours all the time.

Double. Hands down. I was doing a roast chicken last night and was super irritated that I had to wait until the chicken was done to put the temperature up for the potatoes - and that's just one instance when I'd have loved to have a double! 

Exactly! I had that problem today.

Definitely double!

Double without a doubt!!

A Rayburn that takes solid wood!!!

Attached to a boiler that heats the house.

In forest green. :-)

Would definitely get a double, just so you have the added convenience of a 'spare' cavity.
Our top oven doubles as a grill, which has been nothing short of valuable in the 4 years we have had it.

Thanks everyone.  I think we'll go with the double cavity cooker.   (A Rayburn wouldn't work so well in London, but thanks for the thought)