Combination microwave oven - has anyone got one?

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Has anyone got or know anything about combination microwave ovens which cook like a normal oven? Are they any good? Thank you x

I do. I still use my oven for oven-y things but might be a mindset! My pressure cooker however has changed my life!

@kitk please help me!! I have a broken oven that cannot be fixed or replaced (long boring story) a combination microwave oven is now my only chance. I am desperate and so sick of not being able to cook anything it is really getting me down.
How do they work? Are they good? How much do they cost? Please give me all your knowledge and free me from this miserable non cooking existence!

We have a neff one that is ok. Neither the microwave or the oven is as good as the dedicated one but both do what they need to. Works for us as we don’t use the microwave much and we have a second oven when we need it.

I'd always had a combi but the last time it needed replacing I just went back to a normal microwave and haven't missed the extra functions at all. The extra functions just weren't being used.

Like kitk, a pressure cooker is now my most loved and used cooking device.

I have two ovens, one is a combi microwave.

The first few times I used the microwave, the oven shelves sparked. I don’t know if that’s normal, but for years Ive then had to remove all the oven shelves and the grill pan if I want to ping something in the microwave. It’s a royal pain in the arse. I’ve just bought a proper microwave fur the utility room.

I have a Bosch combi microwave and wouldn't be without it. All the functions work really well. I particularly like the pre-programmed function for roasting a whole chicken, takes an hour to perfectly cook a large chicken and leaves my other oven free for everything else.

I have the Bosch one too, as a extra option alongside a range (and because I wanted the microwave built in, not on a side).

It is pretty good - oven is extremely quick to heat up and temp seems accurate. Microwave confuses the hell out of me as it works with the metal grill shelf in it, and it doesn't turn. A Bosch engineer told me that it works in a completely different way to normal microwaves, but I still don't understand.

One thing to note is that if you've used the oven at full temp - you can't then microwave things until it's cooled down. Not a deal breaker but I find I have to think ahead if I'm doing a big meal.

Overall I definitely wouldn't be without it.

We have one. It gets used as a conventional microwave for 99.9% of the time.

I had a standalone Kenwood one which I bought thinking that it might be better for one person living alone than putting on a full size oven, or might be useful if I needed to cook two things at different temperatures.

I used the oven function precisely once in the eight years it lasted. It was incredibly noisy and not particularly effective.

We have one and I think I've used the oven option once. Having said that - I would use it all the time if I didn't have another oven.

We have a DeLonghi one. We had a different make (can't remember which) in the past which we used in preference to the conventional oven. Now we have downsized we don't have space for - and don't need - a full-size oven so the combi was the obvious choice.

It's great. Does excellent jacket potatoes (in combi mode). Being a fan oven it heats up very quickly and because it's smaller than a conventional oven it uses less energy. (At least, it seems to. We don't have anything to compare it with but it takes about 0.8 kWh to bake about 900 g of potatoes.)

I'm vegetarian so cannot comment on roasting meat, etc. but can't see any reason why not.
The microwave part is rated at 900 W output.