Anyone actuallyuse Combi Microwave/Grill/Fan Oven???

Gobsh

Anyone actually know how to use Combi Microwave/Grill/Fan Oven???

 

I got £1000 worth Smeg with my new house

5 years later and all we do is warm soup with the microwave

You can use it as a fan oven, conventional oven, a grill OR a microwave

They tell you all about the generic benefits of time saving with combination but nobody on the planet really knows how to use one specifically

I have made a few guesses at combining microwaves 600% watts with fan oven 180 for 20 mins but the microwaves just cremated the food, tried reducing the microwaves to 100 watts but still tastes dry inside

I have considered increasing the Oven temperature and reducing the time so microwave has less impact, but who actually knows

 

E.G. I have a frozen pie with suggested cooking time of: Fan Oven at 200 degrees for 25 minutes

 

Anyone actually uses a combi know how this coverts to

 

Fan Oven Temperature or Grill temp?

Microwave Power?

Cooking Time?

DullGreyGuy

Dont use a microwave but Miele do a cookbook for their microwave combi oven https://www.miele.co.uk/media/ex/gb/cookbooks/Microwave_combi%20_oven_cookbook.pdf not all recipes use all functions but for example a Duck a l'orange says either 190C for 90 minutes in fan oven or 190C fan oven + 150w microwave for 70 minutes. 

prettyandfluffy

I've had 2 of them (different brands) and concluded they're a waste of money, the only function that works well is the microwave.  The grill in particular is useless.  

LightFlare

Jack of all trades / master of none is the experience of ours (except the microwave bit)

Ash_Pole

The convection oven and microwave on My DeLonghi work fine (the grill is pretty useless though). Cooking on oven/microwave combi settings works well, a baked potato for example at 80% for 25 minutes comes out cooked perfectly.

victor2

We had one for a few decades, and only ever used it as a microwave until it finally died. Replaced it with a regular microwave.

cpbackhouse

I use our Bosch one quite regularly.

If I am wanting to do something in the oven but its small its more efficient I think to do it in the Combi 

One of my very common things to do is jacket potatoes where I can use the microwave and conventional oven in combination to create oven like jackets in a much shorter time. 

Having said that it does make it more complicated when you are just using it as a simple microwave. 

WIAWSNB

Hi Gobsh.

We have a large Sharp R959, which - at 40 litres - is more than enough for 99% of our cooking. 

It's largely used for either MW or FAN, occasionally grill (and does it all superbly), but - as others - if you want, say, a nice jacket potato, then the combi feature works really well. And it's one of the easy-to-use presets as a bonus; "How many pots? Cool. Stand back". 

You shouldn't use it for cooking for which it ain't designed; always follow the cooking directions on yer frozen pies, for example. For these, you'll likely see to either defrost first and then 'fan', or cook-from froz. What you almost certainly won't read on the package is to 'combi' it. 

Bleedin' miracle you're still alive.

Gobsh? 

outtatune

Got a Panasonic combi and the oven, grill, microwave all individually work just fine, plus it has combination settings so for things like lasagne you can use the microwave to get the food hot combined with the grill to get a nice golden brown top layer on the cheese.

Previously had a similar Sharp and that worked just fine too.

silvercar

I have a Neff one. I have used it as an oven when I've run out of room in my main oven. I usually use it as a microwave, but it isn't as even in microwaving as my previous stand alone microwave, I'm guessing because it doesn't have a turntable.

TELLIT01

We have one and have only ever successfully used it as a microwave.  Tried to heat a pizza in it once and it came out a soggy mess despite using the 'pizza' setting.  Haven't bothered trying since.