Cuisinart CMW-200 1-1/5-Cubic-Foot Convection Microwave Oven with Grill
June 9th, 2010 | 
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- 1000-watt countertop convection microwave oven and grill
- 1-1/5 cubic-foot interior; 12-inch rotating glass tray for even heating
- Touchpad control panel; 9 preset options, plus grill function; multi-stage cooking
- Defrost by weight or time; reversible grill rack; instructions/recipes included
- Measures 23-2/3 by 21 by 14-3/5 inches; 3-year limited warranty
Product Description
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Cuisinart CMW-200 1-1/5-Cubic-Foot Convection Microwave Oven with Grill
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Tags: 11/5CubicFoot, CMW200, Convection, Cuisinart, Grill, Microwave, Oven
I live in a small downtown unit in San Francisco, so anything that takes up space has to earn it’s living. This unit is now the only “oven” I use, and it’s wonderful. I see many complain about how long it takes to “heat up,” but that’s a misunderstanding of using convection heat. Just put whatever you want to cook in the oven–cakes, breads, lasagna, etc.–and it will cook as the oven heats. Because of the convection, there are no “hot spots” and nothing will burn. The only adjustment is the cooking time, but that can be gauged with a little practice. Easy to clean, makes wonderful toast, pies, fresh breads and roast cuts of meat…. I don’t know what I’d do without this. The microwave is very flexible and easy to use with many different choices on the control panel.
Rating: 5 / 5
We bought this microwave oven because it also has a convection oven. The oven takes a VERY long time to heat up.
Example:
350 degrees takes 35 minutes
425 degrees took over an hour
In contrast my regular electric (full size) oven takes 8 minutes to reach 425
Our old Panasonic microwave/convection oven took 15 minutes to reach 425
This machine was supposed to be a time saver, but we hardly ever use the convection setting as it takes too long to warm up. We find we now have an overpriced microwave oven. We could have got a much larger microwave (without convection) for the price we paid for this.
My advice – steer well clear of this machine unless you don’t need the convection oven – in which case you are better off getting a cheaper model.
I wish I had read the other reviews before I bought this machine.
The only good point is you can use the glass turntable on convection mode – our old Panasonic required you swap out a metal turntable whenever you wanted to convection cook, which was a real pain having to store the other turntable. However, you are unlikely to use the convection mode unless you remember to heat the oven an hour before you actually use it. I presume all this heating time is wasteful too, so using the full size oven for much less warmup time may work out better value…
Rating: 1 / 5
This is one great oven. I bought it at the last minute for a Christmas present. It works great. We made cookies, and bread first off just to see if this thing would work. It did!!!
Only issue I have is for high temp items (425 deg.) it takes quite a bit of time to heat up.
Rating: 4 / 5
It works great, except it took it about 30 minutes to heat up to 350, that is a long time. I see other reviews are the same, what is the problem? Other then that, it cooks great. Just have enough time to wait for the heating temp.
ginger
Rating: 1 / 5
Cuisinart CMW-200 1-1/5-Cubic-Foot Convection Microwave Oven with Grill I too wish I had read the reviews, I live in the hot southwest and use a convection a lot, it takes longer to heat up than to bake some things. I have a lot of Cuisinart products, but this one is terrible for what I need it for.
Rating: 1 / 5