Home Steam Oven Advice

I know a fair amount about combi ovens, though not enough about baking bread in one.  I bought a combi when they first hit the home market.  While bread baking was one of may main goals,  mine does not have a bread function, and my results so far have been hit and miss.  Others came out after I bought mine that have an automated bread function and some users have gotten pretty good results - You might want to check one of the combi pages on facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/combisteamcooking/    https://www.facebook.com/groups/csocooking/   IMO , getting a combi solely to make bread is not necessarily a great idea.  If you are getting a combi as a second oven, it is great - they are usually much smaller than a regular oven, so they heat up very quickly, and they have a reheat feature that adds moisture so you food does not dry out while reheating. As a result, I hardly ever use my regular oven.  There are many threads on combi ovens here   https://www.houzz.com/discussions/query/wolf-combi-oven  this was from a search on Wolf,  there are other threads on Miele.    For me, my combi does cook solely with steam, with steam and dry convection heat ( called combi mode ) or convection heat.  There is not mode, at least on mine, for heat without the convection, and my guess is that the convection is not helpful for bread baking.  If you find one with a true bake element, that may work much better.  

I used one range,  I can't recall the maker, but it had a label similar to to "steam assist" on it , though it was just a broiler pan that sat at the bottom of the oven, and you added water -  basically the same as people who put water in a pan at the bottom of the oven.