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Add another dimension to your dinner-making abilities with this Sharp convection microwave oven. The countertop styling makes it easy to incorporate into your kitchen setup, and the convection technology lets you roast, bake or brown with ease. This Sharp convection microwave oven features a brushed stainless finish for your contemporary kitchen.
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A great second oven for a low price & small space
on January 7, 2011
Posted by: MikeMN
from Minnetonka, mN
We needed a second oven, and had a somewhat small opening (27"w x 19"h) in the cabinet above our standard oven. Our old combo microwave toaster oven was too small for many baking needs, so we were looking for another combo or a pure convection oven.
The Sharp has been a great addition. We got it just in time for Thanksgiving, and used the mix/roast mode to cook a 16 lb turkey in about half the time (just over 2 hrs). The skin was browned and crispy, and even the breast meat remained moist (without any basting or injections).
The mixed mode baking works well, too. I've tried baking breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes and pies, and all came out fine. When using stoneware pans, the time savings over baking in the larger convection oven, even with the mixed microwave/convection mode, is not substantial. But the Sharp is large enough to accommodate almost all of our baking pans (with the exception of full-size cookie sheets), and is meeting our second oven needs.
The plain microwave mode seems a little weak compared to other microwaves of this size, but it is more powerful than our old microwave/toaster oven combo. The 'sensor cook' mode has not been very valuable for us - it always seems to stop heating too soon.
What's great about it: Fits smaller oven space, bakes well, reasonably priced
What's not so great: microwave seems underpowered
I would recommend this to a friend!
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built in convection microwave w/regular heating element
I am looking for a microwave that also includes a regular electric heating element, so I can use the unit as a second conventional oven (to keep a dish warm, or warm bread, etc.). I am looking for one I can build in, perhaps with a trim kit. Do you have?
The Sharp R930CS should fit the bill for you, Dan. I put one into the smallish space above our regular convection oven (ours is 27" wide). I haven't bothered with the trim kit, but they are available for both 27" and 30" spaces.
The oven works well as a plain convection oven, and the mixed microwave/convection mode works surprisingly well - we've baked cookies, breads, cakes and pies with no discernible differences in outcome when compared to the regular oven. Note that there is not a regular heating element in this oven - just the hot circulating air of convection mode, or the microwaves. So you can't broil or brown quickly as you can in a standard electric oven.
The oven works well as a plain convection oven, and the mixed microwave/convection mode works surprisingly well - we've baked cookies, breads, cakes and pies with no discernible differences in outcome when compared to the regular oven. Note that there is not a regular heating element in this oven - just the hot circulating air of convection mode, or the microwaves. So you can't broil or brown quickly as you can in a standard electric oven.
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