Show Us Your Meat, and We'll Show You Ours

[JPolen01]

In the middle of a half kitchen remodel. I am going to replace our over the range microwave.  Is it worth twice the price to buy a combo convection/microwave unit? Will it make meats good enough to skip pan frying them? Is it really that much faster than just using the main oven?  Is it worth it just fyi have the extra oven space?

No.  had one at our last house.  I tried it and all it did was make the plate really really hot.  Tried again to try to make chicken tenders and it was a fail.   Was no faster either.

My parents and wife's parents have them. They get used as a microwave 99% of the time. I remember when I was younger I could bake a frozen pizza or french fries in less time than it took in the oven. It still needs a few minutes to preheat though. I would go traditional microwave.