The Ultimate Cooking Appliance

Cooking can be a troubling requirement for adulthood. A lot of people do not enjoy it, and even fewer who have the time for it. If you are a sub-standard chef, having the right home appliances that support your cooking activities can be crucial. Microwave ovens are a good example. They are a cheap substitute for a whole oven, and often provide a number of functionalities suitable for different modes of cooking. If you are still reading, you might want to learn about what we refer to in Gadkits as "The Ultimate Microwave Oven".

What to look for?

When buying a microwave oven, you would ideally like to consider three important things, the number of settings, the power output and the physical capacity. Microwaves programs are characterized by a different number of settings, where each setting is dedicated to a specific cooking mode like defrosting or air frying. Having more settings simply means having more cooking modes that allow you to cook more meals.

Power output, on the other hand, refers to the maximum heating capacity of the microwave. Normally, having a higher power output enables more configurations to cooking more meals with different heating requirements, especially with high temperature modes such as air-frying and grilling. Typical power out-puts are around 900 watts, so higher values may not only mean better cooking for heat-intensive meals but also faster cooking as meals heat up faster.

In contrast to heating capacity, physical capacity refers to the volume of food that a microwave oven can take. There are no typical figures for this number, as they vary among microwave categories, but the general rule is the bigger the better! Larger countertop microwaves usually begin at 1 Cubic Feet as explained in this blog.

Our Product Recommendation

We present to you our pick for the ultimate value-for-money countertop microwave oven, the Toshiba ML2-EC10SA(BS)A. It has a total of 8 settings given by standard microwave, air fry, bake, grill, combination, low temperature cook, odor removal and defrost. The 8 cooking settings are distributed among 25 recipes provided by default by the manufacturer to cook specific meals like fries or steak.

At a power output of 1000 watts, you can cook plenty of meals, faster than your ordinary 900 watts. This partially compensates its seemingly limited interior capacity of 1 cubic feet. Other additional features include child-safety and control panel locks. All this at a price of slightly over 200 US $, available in US markets. This is quiet value-for-money indeed, given that countertop microwaves with similar specifications normally cost around 300 US $.

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