To immediately divide the microwave ovens into categories, we distinguish three varieties, divided by price and, accordingly, by functionality:
- solo oven, which is the simplest and cheapest model, whose main functions include heating and defrosting products;
- oven with a grill, which includes the capabilities of a solo oven, but also provides for roasting the dishes to a ruddy crust;
- oven with grill and convection equipment - advanced cooking possibilities.
In many cases, the above criteria are for the buyer the first step in choosing a microwave oven. What's next?
What is the power and capacity?
Capacity and volume are the following criteria for selecting a furnace. Power affects the speed of cooking and defrosting. The power indicators of this household appliances range from 700 W to the maximum values of 1.3 kW.The minimum values for Vitek microwave oven, the largest are Electrolux microwave ovens.
Such furnaces with famous brands like LG, Samsung and Daewoo have high power levels, while they have a smooth adjustable power level. Smoothness of adjustment is important when preparing various favorite dishes. And companies like Candy, Sanyo give their household appliances a lower nominal capacity. Higher power affects more power consumption.
The sizes of microwave ovens are directly proportional to the power. For housewives, large sizes of stoves are very necessary in cases where a large family consists or needs to cook large meals.
Therefore, with a relatively stable financial position, a large family and if the size of the kitchen allow, it is better to buy a microwave oven from Electrolux, LG or Samsung. Although if you choose Vitek with a volume of up to 23 liters, the landlady will be able to cope with cooking, but at the same time save on consumed electricity.
What service?
An important detail is the way to control the microwave. For example, the touch control went to the forefront in its reliability, than mechanical control. Although someone seems to be more familiar with mechanical or reliable in terms of operating conditions and loads on the control keys.
Very important when choosing this household appliances, give the timer. For more accurate indications, it is better to give preference to electronic. After all, cooking is important for maintaining the regimes, and the mechanical timer has a significant error.
Below are the features of the design of some options.
| Company | Features |
|---|---|
| Sanyo | Presence of electronic control and child lock |
| Candy | Delayed start, electronic control method, child lock |
| LG | Electronic control and child protection |
| Daewoo | Presence of electronic control |
| Zanussy | Mechanical control unit |
| Samsung | Mechanical control device |
You should also caution those who live in conditions of a sudden voltage drop in the network. Sensory equipment has the disadvantages of "burning", although this is not common. Therefore, in order to secure their purchase, it is better to buy a microwave oven from a firm that produces furnaces with electronic push-button control. In addition, the design remains still beautiful, and the buttons are comfortable and sensitive.
What and how to cook?
Those products that are prepared by the radiation of only microwaves, will be considered boiled. Therefore, if in your operating conditions the furnace includes defrosting food, heating or cooking sausages, then you can make your choice on microwave ovens of a simple and cheap type. And if the quantity or size of the prepared dishes is small, it is better to buy a microwave oven from Vitek or Candy, where a 17-liter volume will be quite welcome.
But if the owner likes to cook and eat deliciously, then you should concentrate on a powerful microwave with a large volume, at least equipped with a grill, and at best convection. As for grills, the buyer must choose for himself what type he will fit more - a quartz lamp or a spiral.
Grill with quartz lamp is more economical and is able to gain the required power faster than the spiral. It is generally believed that cooking under quartz has an effect that most closely resembles an open fire.
In addition, hidden in the ceiling of the camera, quartz contributes to compactness, which allows you to increase the working volume of the camera. However, the grill with a spiral in new designs also has its own distinctive features: the ability to adapt to the shape of the product being prepared, changing its position.
What is the location of the spit? It is generally accepted that everything depends on the design of the furnace itself. But here many "inveterate" cooks prefer the classical stern grilling. And in fact, unlike the vertical vertical grill, the product rotates horizontally in a convenient position for burning, while it is evenly heat treated in its own juice.
Technical performance Electrolux, of course, one step ahead of the solutions of other brands. However, if we talk about the size and mass of these units, then someone like this 14-kilogram cumbersome microwave oven may not be suitable. In this case, it is better to look for a microwave oven of the same class from LG or Samsung. In addition, all these microwaves do not differ much in the uniformity of defrosting products.
Does the microwave oven emit?
The leakage of microwave radiation is being carried out even at the design stage of the models, and then it is checked and compared this household equipment in operation. The main feature of the test is the measurement of microwave radiation at a point 50 mm or more from the outer surface of the instruments. And this requirement GOST, in fact, correspond to all models.
However, it was noted that the Daewoo series appeared to have an increased radiation value, and Candy could excel with higher microwave safety indicators. Most obviously, a "strict" safety series is associated not so much with the quality of a brand's products as with the output of radiation, and this can negatively affect safe radiation, and the quality of baking products is positive.
From the above, I dare say that the popular opinion "price-quality" for microwave ovens has only a relative spread. An important role is also played by operating conditions, reliability of control devices, as well as requirements to the quality of cooking.
Although it is not unreasonable the more expensive microwaves of well-known firms take on a larger rating on different criteria. Still, when it comes to exploitation, when preparing dishes, the human factor plays a large part.
