Cuisinart CMW-200 1-1/5-Cubic-Foot Convection Microwave Oven with Grill

From Cuisinart
	Price: $450.00
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Features - 1000-watt countertop convection microwave oven and grill - 1-1/5 cubic-foot interior; 12-inch rotating glass tray for even heating - Touchpad control panel; 9 preset options, plus grill function; multi-stage cooking - Defrost by weight or time; reversible grill rack; instructions/recipes included - Measures 23-2/3 by 21 by 14-3/5 inches; 3-year limited warranty Product Description Cuisinart presents a countertop oven that's the ultimate combination of size, style and smarts. The big, 1.2 cubic foot Microwave Convection Oven and Grill looks like it belongs in a high-end commercial kitchen. Brushed stainless steel and black frame a sleek control panel that offers single and combinations settings for an unlimited number of cooking options. A multi-stage cooking feature that automatically shifts form one function to another makes perfect results easier than ever. This is a new generation of microwave - and It's from Cuisinart, of course! Customer Reviews Priceless Date: 2009-05-01 | Rating: 5 I live in a small downtown unit in San Francisco, so anything that takes up space has to earn it's living. This unit is now the only "oven" I use, and it's wonderful. I see many complain about how long it takes to "heat up," but that's a misunderstanding of using convection heat. Just put whatever you want to cook in the oven--cakes, breads, lasagna, etc.--and it will cook as the oven heats. Because of the convection, there are no "hot spots" and nothing will burn. The only adjustment is the cooking time, but that can be gauged with a little practice. Easy to clean, makes wonderful toast, pies, fresh breads and roast cuts of meat.... I don't know what I'd do without this. The microwave is very flexible and easy to use with many different choices on the control panel. Cuisinart Microwave Date: 2009-12-30 | Rating: 5 This is a great Microwave I used this to cook during Thanksgiving day and Christmas and proved to be a great microwave it truly did get the job done I use it alot for normal microwave uses but again for the oven it is great. It is made out of stainless steel which I found pretty nice especially on my metal counter top and the size was reasonable for a microwave not to big nor too small would buy again if it would to break down Great microwave Date: 2009-01-25 | Rating: 4 This is one great oven. I bought it at the last minute for a Christmas present. It works great. We made cookies, and bread first off just to see if this thing would work. It did!!! Only issue I have is for high temp items (425 deg.) it takes quite a bit of time to heat up. Food in the unit before you choose preheat convection Date: 2010-01-09 | Rating: 4 Great idea I went out and got frozen french fries. Tried no preheat convection and after 15 minutes they weren't done and cooked another 5 minutes. Another batch I went with preheat and the temp at 425 as suggested and put the fries in the oven at the start of the preheat cycle. By the time it hit 425 the fries were done. I never did set the time. You are not allowed to set the time before the temp preheat is reached. At that rate if they are not quite done then you add more time through what they call kitchen time. there's heat exhausting out the back that I wish would stay in the oven heating it up faster. However I don't know how convection ovens heat themselves. Tried the idea of turning on the grill for 2 minutes then going to convection. It did not seem to speed things up any. I am not unhappy. I've gotten three appliances off my counter and put the Cuisinart on top of the stove. Heat is an issue in the southwest so I have never used my gas pilot stove. The microwave works exactly as I expected. The grill has three settings. 100% grilling, 30% micro plus 70% grill, and 55% micro plus 45% grill. I haven't enjoyed steak at home for years so this I am really looking forward to. Fishsticks I'm going to try 30/70. Roasting and baking have a fast setting which combines micro and convection, you can go straight convection too. I would buy it again because the price is right, it microwaves great and grills. I never was an oven baker so few times I may preheat convection will be very seldom. Right now I'm going to look for a rack utensil that I can use in both oven and microwave. I'm sure after a learning curve that I will be preheat convection cooking and adding minutes after the oven acquires the set temp to finish my cooking. Everything is possible. Convection oven is useless Date: 2009-02-23 | Rating: 1 We bought this microwave oven because it also has a convection oven. The oven takes a VERY long time to heat up. Example: 350 degrees takes 35 minutes 425 degrees took over an hour In contrast my regular electric (full size) oven takes 8 minutes to reach 425 Our old Panasonic microwave/convection oven took 15 minutes to reach 425 This machine was supposed to be a time saver, but we hardly ever use the convection setting as it takes too long to warm up. We find we now have an overpriced microwave oven. We could have got a much larger microwave (without convection) for the price we paid for this. My advice - steer well clear of this machine unless you don't need the convection oven - in which case you are better off getting a cheaper model. I wish I had read the other reviews before I bought this machine. The only good point is you can use the glass turntable on convection mode - our old Panasonic required you swap out a metal turntable whenever you wanted to convection cook, which was a real pain having to store the other turntable. However, you are unlikely to use the convection mode unless you remember to heat the oven an hour before you actually use it. I presume all this heating time is wasteful too, so using the full size oven for much less warmup time may work out better value...