Microwaves ...

[Millie1]

Any recommendations on buying microwave with grill versus standard micro ... is grill worth the extra or just something else to go wrong? Either way not spending too much - both under #100 (Panasonic / Sharp).

Thanks

We have the Sharp grill/oven/microwave thing and love it. Not sure about grill on its own (without the oven bit) but the best part is always having an "overflow" for our oven/grill (we don't have a double oven) plus baked potatoes are brill (nice and crispy skins!).

Couldn't live with a "standard" microwave now, would have to have all three combined

i have the sharp all in one and have never used the grill but keep meaning to try it.

We've got a Panasonic all in one and I rarely use our "normal" oven. I find the grill a bit of a faff though, use the micro and convection oven features all the time. Highly recommended!

Ours is a grill/oven/microwave (8 years old now). We don't have a grill in our oven so we have to use it. Its ok as a grill but you've got no control over the temperature of the grill (and can't move things closer either). So its a bit slow. Cheese on toast just doesn't work - the cheese turns into rubber, I assume grill isn't hot enough.

But we use it as an oven on its own or combined with microwave a lot and that's great.

I have Panasonic microwave with grill (not oven) - it's definitely worth it for jacket spuds, warming pastry (pasties etc - not soggy), and cooking frozen gratins. A friend who has a similar one uses it to cook sausages (it comes with a round grilling attachment on legs).

We make cheese on toast in ours without the grill, zerub - make toast in toaster, put cheese on bread, microwave for 20-30 secs until cheese melts - it's not as nice as proper grilled cheese but not rubbery.

I have baumatic one with a grill, i never ever use the grill part. Next time I would just get a normal one without the grill so there are less instructions to read and buttons to press.