Delta 3-in-1 Combination Microwave oven with 3 year warranty - £64.99 at Aldi

pollyskettle

I cooked the pizza using the convection oven, preheating it to 180 first. Pizza box said 10-12 mins and it was plenty cooked in 8. It was great! I'm not using the stand in the oven when on microwave, it says in the manual not to, there's a little table on page 6 saying not to use metal tray for microwave or combination cooking.

Link for book (it's £5.24, the other combi oven book is rated at a bit pants so I didn't bother getting them both):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0948817461

Using microwave tonight to cook curry, I've never cooked so much pre-prepared food! I was hoping to roast a chicken in it tomorrow, but I'm going to wait until the book arrives so I can work out timing accurately, as it has conversion times as well as recipes in it. May try a cake on monday

davetaylor

pollyskettle wrote: »

I'm not using the stand in the oven when on microwave, it says in the manual not to, there's a little table on page 6 saying not to use metal tray for microwave or combination cooking.

This is where it gets confusing. On page 6 it tells you the part names. It refers to the item number 9 as the Metal Rack.

On the table it talks about a metal tray. Who is to say that it's the same item? Other combi microwaves advocate using the rack during combi cooking.

I am struggling to grasp how I can use the combi grill.microwave feature if the food is sitting on the bottom of the oven?

It's all so confusing!!!!


Dave

pollyskettle

I can see what you mean there! I shall have to try it without the metal rack to give a proper answer and let you know how the cooking goes.

davetaylor

pollyskettle wrote: »

I can see what you mean there! I shall have to try it without the metal rack to give a proper answer and let you know how the cooking goes.

I did try using the rack in the combi grill/microwave to do some sausages and nothing bad happened. I was brave!

Dave

pollyskettle

davetaylor wrote: »

I did try using the rack in the combi grill/microwave to do some sausages and nothing bad happened. I was brave!

Dave

Lol, I've got some 'brave boy' stickers somewhere from my son - I'll send you one if you like (actually, you're braver than me, but I did destroy a microwave and a large area of worksurface once hence my reticence!).

MyUserNamesTaken

davetaylor wrote: »

I did try using the rack in the combi grill/microwave to do some sausages and nothing bad happened. I was brave!

Dave

I told you nothing bad would happen.

davetaylor

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

I told you nothing bad would happen.

You did indeed!

Thanks!

spinybif_2

Can anyone tell me the maximum temperature you can get on convection. bought one cheaply 18 months ago but can only reach 180 degrees. useless for cooking many pre-prepared meals.

Browntoa

this one goes to 200 degrees, but allowing that you may reduce the temperature by 25-50 degrees C when using a convection oven then this is actually up to 250 degrees equivalent on a normal oven

Browntoa

whoops

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