Russell Hobbs RHM3002 30L Digital Combination Microwave with Grill & Convection, 900W - Stainless Steel

Top quality microwave with adequate internal size plus nice having the grill function.

I have owned 4 different makes of combination Microwaves and used many more often costing far more than this one. To be honest, this is the best one of all of them and is so easy to use. It is a 900 watt microwave with a great grill and fan oven that you would find hard to better and at half of then price of many of them. If you’re stuck for room in a small kitchen then this will be the perfect solution for you. Thoroughly recommended.

This microwave oven is excellent, really good! I love the look, the functionality, the size, the quality, even the feel. It's good - really good. However... please be aware that finger marks are very apparent after EVERY use. It looks uber-nice when clean, but you might need to get your tea towel out to return it to its former glory after each use. Slightly bigger issue... the feet are plastic and not rubber or silicone. Even when flat against a wall, pressing the door open button was enough to have the oven skating around the worktop. This is unforgivable. Russel Hobbs should expect that this unit may be used on a smooth surface, and it needs to not move around. It is easily resolved at manufacture (but sadly has not been), but can be resolved after purchase with self-adhesive rubber pads for under £3. Great product, but needs looking after to keep its beauty and 4 better feet. Hope this helps.

This is a true convection / grill / microwave which makes it larger than some other models, especially the extra 10 cm or so at the back (but much smaller overall than our old one) but it has a 30L capacity which is again large by comparison with many. Our last microwave / combination oven lasted over 20 years and we wanted a true oven replacement, not one that uses the grill element for `convection' cooking. Positives: True convection / grill / microwave and combination oven, very fast convection preheat, large capacity, easy to use. Negatives: Short mains lead, lightweight grill rack, finish will show fingermarks. UPDATE: Jan 2016. After over a year of almost daily use, still working perfectly. In microwave mode, the interior of this oven does get much more condensation than our old one but that's easy enough to wipe out (as the instructions recommend). The quite heavy glass turntable is 31.5 cm or 12.5" diameter and almost fills the square compartment. The turntable always turns, even in convection mode so you can't use large, square metal tins that overhang the turntable even for pure convection or grill cooking. The grill rack felt lightweight compared with our old oven's rack but we've still got that rack so will probably use it! So far we've found it to be very efficient in all three cooking modes and for combination cooking using microwave + convection. I think the controls are easy to use, two or three button presses and a couple of turns of the control knob are all it takes to choose a mode, set temperature / time and start. The display is clearly lit and easy to read with main display numbers in green, temperature scale etc. in red. There are about 10 built-in programmes for meat, vegetables, pasta etc. but we haven't tried those yet. The `defrost' programme is very simple to use; just dial in the weight of the food to defrost and it does the rest. The instruction manual is clear and in print large enough to read easily. For microwave mode you can simply press the `quick start' button once to start a minute of full power microwave cooking, so 3 presses equals 3 minutes at full power; very useful. The full setting options let you choose power from 100% (900W) down to 10% in 10% steps and time from 5 seconds to 95 minutes. Convection cooking (not using the grill element) allows temperatures from 240°C down to 100° in 20° steps, then 80° and 50°. Pre-heat is very fast, from cold to 220°C took 5 minutes. The fan plus turntable noise is quite audible but not what I'd call loud. Combination cooking lets you choose from four varied microwave + convection modes and alternates the power between microwave and convection cooking at short intervals. Microwave + grill combination cooking works similarly, with two combination options or you can use the grill on its own. One possible drawback is that the mains lead is as short as on many modern appliances, not much longer than the casing is wide, so you need to position the oven relatively near a mains socket. The brushed stainless steel finish looks very good but there will be fingermarks! Overall, this oven so far is a very good replacement for our old faithful combination oven.

When our identical microwave (which we must have had 10 years or more) gave up, I looked at various replacement options but finally bought the same again. It's easy to use, decent capacity and power and the option to use as an oven or grill has been really helpful when we have needed more oven space at Christmas etc. It's hard to get excited about a microwave but this is a very decent purchase

Having had an panasonic NN-CD757 convection microwave for more than 10 years a cracked door made me decide to buy a new combi microwave. I am now returning this and buying a new door instead. This is complete rubbish in comparison. The oven does not heat up to the correct temperatures. Some recipes taking double the cooking time. The grill is okay. You can only use microwave and grill or microwave and oven, not all 3 and you can not change the set temps. The instructions are useless, set programs are in % with no telling what temp the grill or oven are set at. It just states 74% oven 26% microwave?? It doesn't tell you if you must use the baking tray when using the oven or grill or whether ypu can just have the glass turntable. It has no recipes using the programs to give you any idea how the settings may work. I have never written a review but I am so disappointed in this oven. It could have given me food poisoning with its oven temps being way out. Overall its an expensive microwave as the other 2 componenets aren't any use.