Microwaves For Kids
Space Saving Microwaves
Microwaves have come a long way since those very early models that hit the domestic market in the mid-70s following their development by Amana in 1967. You certainly wouldn't have wanted the very first microwave models in your home - there was certainly nothing space saving about these commercial microwaves! As technology advanced microwaves got smaller but the very first microwaves were large, cumbersome affairs. In fact, the 1161 Radarange microwave oven that was produced by the Raytheon Corporation in 1954 for the commercial market was very heavy, very expensive and not particularly attractive. However, it did cook food! By 1976 as many as 52 million homes in the US were using microwaves in the home: they quickly went from being a luxury item to being one of life's most essential kitchen gadgets - with an especial place in the small kitchen.
At the top end of the microwave oven range, and one of the newer models available, is the 1.2 cubic foot built-in microwave oven from GE. This microwave oven, the SCB2000FWW retails in the region of ,751.00. How important to you is the microwave oven in your kitchen? Do you use it to cook meals from scratch, or just for re-heating the occasional ready-meal from your freezer? In the past I have cooked a full roast dinner for a family of six in my microwave oven - not through choice, I grant you, but I had the builders in and it was all I had available! However, on saying that, the food was delicious and all the family approved so I must have been doing something right - albeit, I did use a slightly more expensive compact microwave oven that offered heating capacity up to around 1200 watts.
Basically, when choosing a space saving microwave oven you need to decide how often you are likely to use it and for what. You also need to decide whereabouts you want to site it and how much you can afford to pay for your new microwave. Most of the microwave ovens in the other categories offer similar facilities to these compact microwave ovens - the only real difference being where they are sited. If you decide on a convection microwave oven you are looking at a slightly large space requirement but, for cooking more elaborate meals and incorporating a browner and crisper finish to your food, this might be a better option for you - despite them being slightly more complicated to use.
I used to have one of these microwave ovens and, while I agree to them being an ideal space saving microwave option, the technophobe in me never quite figured out how to fully use all the options I had paid for when I bought the convection oven. Truly, the choice is yours - decide how you want to use it, where you want to site it and how much you want to pay: those are the basic options available to you in your search for the perfect space saving microwave oven - and, of course, if you are like me, make sure you know how to use all the features available on the model you finally choose!