A microwave oven allows you to quickly heat, defrost, cook a product or dish, while maintaining a maximum of nutrients and taste. It is easy to get lost in the abundance of brands and models that the modern market offers. The buyer can choose a microwave in a classic color scheme or with a design pattern, economy or luxury, small-sized stove or multi-function.
Basic microwave settings
A microwave oven can completely replace a conventional stove, but in most kitchens it becomes a necessary and regularly used addition. Before buying, you need to decide how often and what exactly you will cook in the microwave: first courses, fried pots, meat with a crispy crust, or something else.
Price
Even budget microwave ovens can defrost and quickly warm dishes. The most in demand are medium-sized ovens with a grill. It is the grill that will help to create that very golden crust or cook kebab without leaving the house. The cheaper the oven, the less features and settings it has. If funds allow, you can buy an expensive microwave oven with the function of blowing with hot air, convection mode. This will allow you to cook the same dishes as in a conventional oven.
Chamber volume
Microwaves with cameras from 16 to 41 liters are presented in stores. Small ovens of 16-19 liters allow you to warm up a bowl of soup or bake chicken. Families with 3-4 people are advised to buy stoves with a 23-25 liter camera. More capacious cameras are designed to cook goose carcasses or holiday cakes.
Operating modes
The number of operating modes also affects the price of a microwave. Microwave radiation will help to quickly warm up foods (including baby food), boil water, unfreeze something. Grill is used to fry the top of the dish. Forced circulation of hot air allows you to bake foods or cook them for a couple. For meat dishes, as a rule, the microwave and grill modes are also used. The combination of microwave and forced circulation of hot air is ideal for drying herbs or preparing diet foods in your own juice.
Power
If you most often use the cooking function using microwaves, then 750-1100 watts of power is enough. A stove with a grill usually has a power of 800-1500 watts, and with convection heating - from 1350 to 2000 watts.
Camera coating
The complexity of cleaning and the hygienic qualities of the device depend on this parameter. Most furnaces use powder coating or enamel. From them pollution is removed quite easily. Often in microwave ovens you can find ceramic coating. Due to the smooth surface, the fat does not linger on the walls, but rolls down, from where it is easy to remove with a sponge. Ceramic coating has one drawback - fragility. The stainless steel coating is quite durable, easy to clean, but inside the microwave will not shine “as good as new” after a month or two of operation.
