Oven and grill aerogrill: which unit is better and whether the repair complex?

At a time when the working space in the kitchen is limited, the hostess stand before a difficult choice, thinking that it is better to buy: microwave oven or grill aerogrill? In which case, these appliances will be useful, but what will be dead weight? Let us examine them in detail.

Microwave oven with grill

Simple microwave ovens, without grill made for all kinds of heating products. To prepare them practically designed, the maximum that the consumer can expect - it's hot sandwiches with cheese, cereal and semi-finished product. Bake them in the legs, roast potatoes or vegetables put out very problematic.

Quite another matter Microwave oven grill. They are perfect not only for heating but also for cooking all sorts of products. Grill can be of two types: quartz and Tenova.

quartz grill

Quartz lamp is hidden in the top of the inner chamber and the microwave hidden grating. The more bulbs - the stronger the grill, the quicker it cooks, the more power consumption during operation.

Advantages of the quartz grill: faster turns on and does not take place in the working zone.

Disadvantages:

• Price. Models with a quartz grill are more expensive than similar models of electric heaters.
• Uneven cooking. As the lamp light through the grating, and the product obtained sometimes in "mesh."

Some of the advantages listed in the note that it is easier to care for the Quartz grill: rubbed a rag and it's done. However, there are opposite opinions. The fact that the quartz grill grate is hidden, which will start to accumulate fat, sooner or later. A clean grate is more complicated than a flat, smooth surface.

TANS grill

Grill heaters is a metal coil which heats up during operation. Such a heater is found in an electric oven and mini-ovens. The stronger he is, the more turns of the spiral does. Advantages of electric heaters grill compared to quartz - this is the price and the ability to drill down to provide uniform heating.

Disadvantages: requires time to warm up, "steal" a few centimeters from the height of the camera, and in models with fixed grill difficult to wash the fat from the upper surface of the inner chamber. Whatever the grill is not selected by the customer, in any case he will perform its function: to roast and bake.

What is aerogrill?

Aerogrill great demand five years ago. With the advent and mass distribution multivarok its popularity as a universal instrument greatly reduced cooking, but in some ways it still has no equal.
Aerogrill is a glass flask of 2.5 to 18 liters. on a support with a hinged or removable lid, in which is mounted a fan heater. Very often, it comes with a metal ring expansion, with which you can increase the capacity of the flask.

The heater increases the temperature and fan it disperses throughout the volume. Heaters in Aerogrill may be heaters or halogen. Halogen lamp are helical glass ceramic, which shines in the infrared range. Heaters - a metal spiral, as in microwave ovens, only the higher power.

Advantages of halogen is the rapid heating and more economical power consumption.

On the other hand, the light from the glass-ceramic TENu inferior in strength, so when careless handling (Especially if aerogrill removable cover and it must constantly be lowered and raised), it can be break. Repair aerogrill complicated, and in this case will create a lot of difficulties.

We can not say that the halogen heater is more expensive or cheaper than usual, models of different price categories found in this and in the other case. High value differ only aerogrili firm Hotter. An example of a budget aerogrill halogen can serve UNIT UCO 920 Example expensive - UNIT UCO 918.

And what could be better?

The unequivocal answer to this question does not exist, it all depends on what kind of results wants to get to the end consumer. For example, warm bowl of soup can both aggregate. But the microwave oven will do it for 1-2 minutes, and Aerogrill need 5-8 minutes, as the first the case of product will be heated directly and the second - a plate, the air inside the flask itself flask. Only when the air warms around, warmed soup from the hot air.

Do not forget that the glass is strongly heated during operation, and a removable cover is heavy. The child is a student, heating products in this unit can easily get burned or drop the cover.

If we compare aerogrill and microwave oven with grill the same price category, it turns out that the power aerogrill heating element is significantly higher, which means that it will bake faster and better. Not to mention the fact that microwave ovens can not cook on several levels at the same time - the inner chamber, usually small, to the same part of space conceals the grid for grilling.

Manufacturers aerogrill not tire of reminding that their miracle device can be sterilized jars. The usual cup can easily include a half-liter and liter, and if you put the expansion ring on the flask - and the three-liter. But in the instructions for microwave ovens separate item displays a ban on the warm-up of empty containers, respectively, neither of which sterilization of the question.

As for the quality of baking, then certainly in Aerogrill it will turn out better, due to the constant air circulation.

Of course there is also a microwave oven with convector that can provide uniform heating, but the price is high enough. Also Aerogrill convenient dry berries, pieces of vegetables and mushrooms - you just need to put them on several levels, and set the minimum temperature. Grill microwave ovens rather fry them than dry.

Summarizing, we can conclude that a microwave oven with a grill not buy those who it will be constantly something to warm up and only rarely cook. Aerogrill, on the contrary, is more appropriate to fans of all kinds of cakes and billets.