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Kenmore Elite 1.4 cu. ft. Speedcook Microwave Hood Combination with Advantium 120 Technology Reviews
| 89% of reviewers recommend
(8 out of 9)
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Chicago, IL
“Don't be fooled...”
Kenmore Elite 1.4 cu. ft. Speedcook Microwave Hood Combination with Advantium 120 Technology —
Don't be fooled by all the fancy cooking modes and inteligent sensor that can tell when your food is cooked. Just a few examples: *Reheating Mode: very slow, and in the end, some of your food is very hot, other parts of the food are still cool inside *Speed Cook Mode: Despite using the supplied metal plate, the bottom and top burner and quartz light did not get the fronzen chicken tenders crispy, came out slight soggy and took the same amount of time as cooking in a toaster oven -- no advantage at all *Convection Oven Mode: most convection ovens will reduce your cooking time by 30 - 40%, this one will only benefit your cooking time by 20% -- the same quiche we cook in our convetional oven for 25 minutes, took 20 minutes with this unit. *Microwave Mode: Here is the UNBELIEVIBLE part -- this is a slow microwave by today's standards -- this unit replaced an 8 year old Kennmore Microwave that cooked food almost twice as fast as this unit *One Touch Mode: the popcorn one touch button will leave a third of your popcorn un-popped, we found that the sensor gets fooled by all the steam comming out of the bag while popping - we have to add one full minute to the time that unit thinks is the correct time *Preheating Mode: in the above example I gave with the quiche, the oven asked me if I wanted it to pre-heat first, I said yes and it started it's pre-heating process which took a full 15 MINUTES!!! That's almost as long as it takes to cook - my full size convential oven pre-heats quicker! Unbelievable! We only use this oven as a normal microwave -- we are better at guestimating the time of cooking things by entering the time manually instead of letting this thing figure it out. My mom has one of these and the main cpu unit burned out within 18 months and had to be replace at $500 I'm actually looking forward to my unit burning out so I can replace this hunk of junk with just a plan, high powered microwave -- this was the biggest $700 I ever wasted...Kenmore Elite 1.4 cu. ft. Speedcook Microwave Hood Combination with Advantium 120 Technology
is not recommended
by JimmyInVa
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