Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

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...