Buy the best microwave wave in Hong Kong

Posted System 03/05/2017 0 Comment(s) How to choose appliances,

The rapid tempo of life in HK causes many people go short of time taking a meal. Therefore, microwave oven provides a solution for rapid heating and cooking. Currently, many convenience stores and lots of restaurants use microwave ovens to cook food in order to finish in a short time. The usage of microwave oven is quite common in HK family. However, many BBE customers have doubts about purchasing an oven. Now, we shall introduce which microwave oven is better.

 

Principles of Microwave Oven

Just as its name implies, the microwave oven employs an electromagnetic wave called Microwave. Other electromagnetic waves include radio wave, infrared ray, light and others waves. Due to the high frequency of microwave, it’s capable of penetrating glass, porcelain, pottery, paper and other materials and approaching the inner side of food so as to generate heat and heat food up. However, it should be understood that microwave isn’t capable of penetrating metal. Therefore, no metal containers should be put inside the microwave oven.

 

Advantages of Microwave Oven

The greatest advantage of microwave oven is its convenience and simplicity. Besides warming up foods, you can utilize it to unfreeze beefsteak or rapidly melt ices. Moreover, different from other kinds of ovens, since the heating process occurs inside the oven, the room temperature is rarely affected. There is no loss of thermal energy and low electrical consumption.

 

Standalone Microwave Oven vs Built-in Microwave Oven

Microwave oven in HK has two types, including standalone-type and built-in type. Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages which are compared as below.

 

Standalone Microwave Oven

It’s the most common type of microwave oven and is cheaper than built-in type. It’s more convenient for installation and transportation than other types and models. Find a place at the desktop and connect this oven with the power supply. Then, you could use it immediately. Its disadvantages include small volume (usually 20-30L) and disadvantaged shape design when compared with other built-in oven. Moreover, it occupies larger spatial proportion.

 

Built-In Microwave Oven

Although standalone-type microwave oven is capable of conveniently and cheaply warming up food, stricter requirements for the design of kitchen and desire for larger volume (as large as 50L) shall force you to choose the built-in microwave oven. It’s built in cupboard so as to rationally utilize the kitchen space and integrate with other built-in electronic appliances. However, it’s more expensive.

 

Microwave oven + electric oven/steam oven

Besides ordinary microwave ovens, other new microwave ovens have been launched by manufacturers who develop the functions of baking or cooking through steam so as to mix microwave oven, bake oven and steamer into one product/machine. Heating and baking through microwave need different powers. These products are suitable for HK citizens who are fond of multi-functions. The functions of microwave oven are utilized for unfreezing and cakes could also be baked. If you prefer healthier food, they should be steamed. Although it’s more expensive than the ordinary microwave oven, it’s considered as cost-effective due to its multi-functions.

 

Want to know more about advantages of steam cooking & how to select a good steam oven? You may check our "Best steam oven in Hong Kong".

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Size and capacity

Microwave ovens differ in size. Therefore, the space of desktop, dimension of shelf and space of cupboard should be measured before purchasing, so as to appropriately install and utilize the microwave ovens, especially for those customers who want to purchase built-in microwave ovens. Otherwise, the cupboard couldn’t be installed appropriately. The only solution is re-purchasing microwave oven or re-arranging/changing the cupboard. For the measurement, space for heat dissipation which is recommended by the manufacturers should be considered so as to enjoy the maintenance service. The ordinary volume of microwave ovens ranges from 20L to 40L.

 

Rate of Heating

The thermal power of microwave oven is measured in Watt, which largely equates to the rate of heating up food. It usually ranges from 500W to 1,300W. Greater thermal power means faster rate of heating food up, although the cost is relatively higher. However, the choice of a weaker thermal power shall violate the principles of heating food up in a microwave oven (which is “prepare food quickly”).

 

Hot-Air Convection

Microwave oven with hot-air convection could ensure the even distribution of microwave. The convection fan at the back of microwave oven circulates heat around the food and contributes to the fast and even food cooking. However, microwave oven with convection fan is usually more expensive.

 

Inverter Technology

Inverter Microwave Oven is capable of accurately controlling the output of thermal power according to the requirements of food materials. The traditional microwave oven controls the thermal power by continuously switching on and off power supply, which is more likely to lead to the unstable change of temperature. The inverter technology is capable of increasing or decreasing the thermal power according to the responding requirements. In addition to microwave oven, the inverter technology is also applied to the stabilization of indoor temperature with air conditioner.

 

Cleaning

Regularly cleaning microwave oven is a necessary task. Correspondingly, manufacturers develop and manufacture microwave ovens which make the cleaning operations simpler and more convenient. For example, coating or materials which are easy to clean are applied on the inner wall. Alternatively, number of right angles on the inner wall is reduced. Besides, microwave ovens equipped with invisible turn-plate are more convenient for cleaning and saving space. Some advanced microwave ovens are fitted out with functions of automatically cleaning the chamber and sink.

 

Buttons for Automatically Cooking

Shortcut key is an effective design. When you choose the corresponding pre-set program, it will automatically operate with the appropriate time and temperature for heating up. Also, please notice that the required thermal power and timing of heating up shall be specified for foods to be heated up in microwave oven.

 

Time Setting

Microwave ovens only equipped with spin button for time setting shall be difficult to accurately control and set the heating-up time. Due to the limits of scale, you may not adjust the time with a small unit such as seconds. Touch button is a better choice for accurate control.

 

Safety Door Lock

All microwave ovens are equipped with safety door lock system to insure that the microwave oven shall not operate with its door open. Users are prohibited from opening door while the microwave oven is operating, since users might be exposed to scald by the splashing hot liquid.

 


Those are our tips for microwave oven selections. Should you have any questions about purchasing a microwave oven, dont hesitate to contact us through facebook or leave us a message. Also, you are welecome to visit our showrooms in Mong Kok, Causeway Bay & Tuen Mun, our electrical appliance specialist will help you to choose the best oven.

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