On 01/06/11 21:40, robgraham wrote:
On Jun 1, 5:08 pm, "DerbyBoy"No-one wrote:
Old Comet Matsui oven is dying due to some of the plastic parts starting to
fail (due to wife opening and closing to door too frequently - the button
now shoots across the room when the door is closed).

What are the views - is a grill element worth having? Does it have any real
use after the initial "let's try it" phase

Regards

John

We've got a Panasonic grill/microwave combi - had it for a good ten
years or more. Certainly we would go for this again though might be
tempted to look at the oven combi. I use it fairly regularly for pies
of one sort or another from the freezer -quick blast of microwave to
thaw and then combination to heat and crispen up the pastry. We also
do baked potatoes quite often and the grill is part of that.

Rob
We have a Panasonic Microwave/Grill/Oven of a similar age: it's
brilliant. We use it as an oven regularly (for less splattery things) as
it warms up very fast. Combo function good for some things- reheating
naan bread especially as the grill function stops them from being soggy.
As robgraham says the baked potato function is great- quick with good
results. The keypad is a bit the worse for wear now but otherwise it's fine.