Product DescriptionThe faster cooking times and more even cooking and heating delivered by the R820JS's convection cooking mode raise this 900W, 0.9 cubic foot microwave oven from Sharp above the rest. A variety of specialty convection cooking modes make preparing your favorite dishes effortless. Enjoy a taste of Italy with CompuPizza. Indulge you passions for baking a griling with CompuBake and CompuGrill. The R820JS even tackles roasts with the CompuRoast mode. A variety of traditional microwave cooking settings is provided by CompuCook, while defrosting common items is easy with the CompuDefrost presets.
What Others Say
Excellent value and performance
I am quite impressed with this oven. After catching my last microwave on fire (my fault), I decided to purchase something with convection capabilities. I cooked for a living and taught culinary classes and really missed what a convection can do. Though this is not a commercial quality convection oven, it is awesome for the home. I use it more now that I do my gas oven! It browns beautifully and the one-ouch features seem to know exactly how to cook that frozen pizza. Check it out. You won't regret it!
You won't regret it
We've been using this microwave a lot since we bought it, both with its regular microwave function and its convection oven functionality, and we haven't been disappointed.
General functionality: The volume of the unit is good enough for most things you'd expect to be putting in a microwave...we've cooked small pizzas and batches of cookies in here already. Granted, you can fit less in here than you would be able to on the average cookie sheet, but that's to be expected I think. As other reviewers have noted, the LCD screen is hard to read unless you're at a really good angle, but unless you have this as your primary kitchen time piece, it's only a minor inconvenience.
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Great Microwave/Convection Oven
I have owned many microwave/convection ovens over the years.
I find the Sharp micro/convection ovens to be the best.
They are the easyest to operate. After owning five sharp microwave/convection ovens which I have used constantly every day
for years, I would not consider buying any other brand.
Good little oven
Sharp makes a pretty good little convection-microwave oven. The first developed a small electrical problem. After one repair, $75, we replaced it with this from the amazon.com site.
Competitively priced, speedily delivered, exactly as ordered.
Should be better...
While the item offers plenty of bells and whistles and the option of convection cooking, it does only a fair job of the microwaving. Often it seems that the device does not sufficiently heat an item despite following the recommended time on the package. After experience with other microwaves it became clear that the microwave does a poor job of heating items that are low on the carousel.
