I've had mine a year and a half and love it. It was confusing at first to learn the controls and some members of my family still dislike the multiple steps to microwave something for just a few minutes. However, it has been wonderful as a microwave and an oven. I especially like the speed cook to reheat things like chicken wings or to cook taquitos. It cooks a meatloaf in record time and gets a nice browning with the speedcook.

Amy, you don't need to do the multiple steps to microwave. I hated that too until I figured it out.

Press Express to get 30 seconds starting right away, then press it more times for more 30 second periods, or turn the wheel clockwise for more time second by second, or counter-clockwise for less.

Jbhall, I learned about the Advantium here in the Appliances forum after having heard nothing but bad things about convection-microwaves as ovens. It's probably a power thing. I have the 240V one. It's a pretty swell item. :) Besides the whole speed oven thing, and its function for me as a third oven (which I sometimes need), it's the best microwave I've ever used. The popcorn sensor and vegetable sensor are both right on which amazes me no end. I just made cinnamon toast on the oven/toast setting for the first time, and it came out great. Actual toast is not good from the Advantium--I was warned about that before I bought it and it's true--but everything else is very good. I'm not big on speedcooking--I don't often have to, and I'm more slow at heart--but it works well.

Try it out in a showroom if you have any questions, but make sure they have someone who knows how it works. When I first asked for a demo the gal didn't know it was more than a microwave.

We just installed ours ( 240V ) and so far we love it. We have used every function and while it is a learning process we now are comfortable using it to cook anything.

Just give me the Advantium and our induction cook top and we are happy campers..

I am just learning to use mine- I have the 240v. Does anyone have a problem keeping the back of the oven clean? In just over a month mine looks like a dirty oven on the back and I'm not sure how to clean it. It doesn't come off with Fantastic and sponge.
I cooked walnut and rosemary crusted chicken breasts (a Cooking Light recipe) last night in 10 minutes! they were delicious- brown and crispy on the outside and moist inside. I wasn't sure how to convert from the regular oven recipe- but chose chicken breasts from the Advantium menu and it worked!

I have the 240v wall oven version. I love it and agree with all the raves above. It replaced both my MW and my toaster oven and is also our primary "regular" oven. I posted a review a few days ago.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Advantium post

Another vote for the advantium. I also have the 240v one and love it! I use it as both my microwave and second oven. I wouldn't be without it!

I had selected the miele chef speed oven but now I can't remember why. lol Too many details!

How's the Advantium with Yorkshire pudding? This is something I need to know.

I remembered - the miele wall speed oven is 24 inches wide, where the advantium comes in 27 and 30. I figured either one is light years ahead of what we have now, but 24 inches is enough room for the "small" oven.

Marcolo, it's amazing. It turns Yorkshire pudding into popovers.

Um. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

I thought Yorkshire puddings were supposed to be heavy enough to throw at your relatives?

Lee:

you mentioned that you tested different advantium ovens- have you tested Miele Speed oven? Would you mind sharing your experience?

We just installed the Miele! I'm pretty excited to have *something*, anything, move in our wayward "project" here.

I can report that it's majorly confusing and the manual is zero help. Isn't Miele German? Wouldn't you think they could conjure an operable users' manual? It's worse than dollar-store stuff.

So, I can't report any facility with the thing but it worked just fine so far. We chose the Miele for one important reason: the Advantium 240 can't go under-counter; the Miele is designed to be OK there. The Advantium reportedly releases too much hot air so there is a scalding danger. The Advantium is 24" but it's been reported here that the interior space is not as much smaller as the 3" difference exteriorly would imply. I don't think I actually ever really measured it carefully but took that person's word for it -- I did note, though, that the interiors were very similar in size.

I prefer the look of the Advantium, not to mention the price.

The Miele's come in two flavors: expensive and more-so with much faniciness thrown in. We took the expensive (the lesser version) that I think does not have a raft of pre-programmed settings. Given how complicated it is to work this thing out and the complete absence of written help, I am wondering a little bit whether it was the right choice. But I'm confident it'll all come clear with time.

Someone noted the risk one takes in purchasing a 24" oven. If/when it dies there may be trouble replacing that size oven.

I like that the 24" Miele doesn't require any expensive trim package for the cabinet.

If you buy a MW/convection oven, know that it will come with metal and glass racks for its different functions that you will have to change out. It was suggested here (thanks, plllog!) to design a storage place for the trays very, very close to the source to avoid this becoming a nuisance and unused dead-weight (and it *is* heavy!). This seems very wise advice to me. The trays don't take much room, but are large and awkward and in the case of the glass, breakable, so facilitating their exchange would seem important.

Someone also mentioned that there is another MW/convection out there but I don't remember the brand - 'elux' perhaps?

Check out the subject over in the appliances forum. Much has been written about these monsters over there!

joan2121: I had trouble cleaning mine, too. I had to resort to oven cleaner (I have Easy Off fume free). I use it when the oven is cold, and do not heat it up. I carefully spray it on, then wait 2 hours and it wipes up easily. HTH.

how do you cook popovers in the advantium? which settings do you use?

i Tested popovers in my regular oven, My speed cook advantium and my Convection bake advantium. The one that worked best for me was the Convection bake advantium. I put the popovers into the greased pyrex dishes and set the oven to 425 for 47minutes, I preheated the oven but did not pre warm the pyrex dishes. these settings made to die for popovers. Tried 450 and that was a fail. I haven't tried my regular oven at 425 but 450 was a fail with the regular oven too. I also have not tried a metal pan at 425, but I did at 450 and that was a fail.The speed cook popovers were the worst of all of them.