How to choose an oven? Traditional oven, steam grill fryer all-in-one machine, water wave oven comparison review and purchase analysis

Hello everyone, I'm Lao Ji very vigorously! Today I bring you a side-by-side comparison of different types of ovens, an appliance that plays an important role in the kitchen. This review will not only look at their performance and performance, but also from a practical point of view to analyze their priorities in the purchase of kitchen appliances and the applicable population.

With the development of science and technology, household appliances from a single function gradually become multi-functional all-in-one machine, the oven, for example, from the very beginning of the oven, the development of a steam oven with steam function, and then there is a hot air function of the air frying oven, on the basis of which the microwave function, it becomes micro-steam grill all-in-one machine (water wave oven). The three protagonists of this review are the tokit oven on the left, the Daewoo Steam Bake Fryer in the center and the Toshiba Micro Steam Bake Oven on the right. These appliances are all mid- to high-end kitchen appliances in the $2500-$5000 price range, and the comparison is somewhat scientific.

Let's start with a look at how the three ovens look and compare in detail!

This tokit is a traditional oven, but it also has a hot air on the back, and it uses the usual knob + touch control of Mijia, which is not too much functionality, but it is enough as an oven.

The back is equipped with a fan that surrounds the heating tube, with a large number of air holes in the center and corners, able to produce hot air from the back heating tube to blow evenly into the cavity, with the effect of air frying. Over time, the stainless steel has slowly yellowed at high temperatures.

2 The cavity of this oven is all made of mirror stainless steel, which looks very high-grade when you just buy it back, but the daily cleaning is very tired. Once dripping grease stains baked, basically no solution. For example, I can't rub the following traces of how to use a steel wire ball, resulting in a large number of unsightly scuff marks. After a long time, the marks are especially obvious, it would be better to use a non-stick coating.

Take a look at Daewoo's all-in-one steaming, grilling, and frying machine. The control area is an LCD screen, 4 frequently used buttons and a vintage plated knob, and it's easy to operate.

Selecting the different operating modes via the knob, pressing the knob to select the time, another press to select the temperature, and another press to start is very intuitive and easy to follow.

There are two M-shaped heating tubes on the top and bottom of this steamer-roaster-fryer that can control the temperature independently. The right side of the heating tube in front of the entrance to the top and bottom of a probe, is used to measure the internal temperature of the oven, real-time adjustment of temperature control.

The whole cavity is coated with nano-ceramic oil, which has a non-stick effect and is good for cleaning after daily baking. Wipe with a rag can be, if there is baked black baked paste oil can be handled with a sponge wipe.

Remove the back cover, inside is a fan and a circle of heating tube. The fan blows the heat generated by the heating tube into the cavity, which is more ferocious than the heat flow heated by the upper and lower tubes, which not only improves the baking speed, but also has a better coloring effect. The high-speed rotating fan with the hot air is a reliable air fryer, and you can use the air frying mode when baking.

I usually cringe a bit when I come across ovens with non-hidden top and bottom tubes, because one of the obvious drawbacks of such ovens is that the top and bottom are not easy to clean, and the heating tubes get in the way of wiping them down with a rag. This oven has two heating tubes that lift up off the oven wall, which makes it very easy to clean, bonus points for the design.

On the inside of the oven door, the names of the 100 automatic menus are printed, so you no longer need to flip through the manual to use the automatic functions.

Lastly, take a look at Toshiba's Micro Steamer and Grill, which steams, grills, and has an additional microwave function. Its control area is a knob plus 10 physical buttons. What attracts me most to Toshiba's vd5000 is that it has a 350-degree grill, which is the ceiling of the world's ovens, and a 300-degree grill for baguettes and chicken thighs is still very impressive.

Each button corresponds to 5 or 6 different sub-categories of functions, and you switch functions by tapping multiple times. It's exceptionally versatile, but it's also complicated to operate, and the first few times I used it I had to rely on the manual. Now sometimes I have to press it a few more times to find it. For example, the Steam Bake mode for baked bread, usually the oven is counted under the "Bake" function, while this waterwave oven is in the Steam function menu.

The waterwave oven has hidden top and bottom tubes, and the cavity is relatively sleek, so it's especially nice to wipe it down because there's no heating tube. But the Daewoo's heating tube can be moved so it's also very easy to clean.

VD5000 coating I thought it was non-stick, but in fact after a few roasts of meat, the back plate becomes so, it should be more oil is blown by the hot air to the back plate of the roast (this all-in-one grill temperature is on the high side, a few ovens 220 degrees roasted meat, only it pulls open the door will be smoke) I tried to start the steam function for 30 minutes to try to use the steam to soften the fat, but still can not be cleaned! I then tried to start the steam function for 30 minutes to soften the grease with water vapor, and still couldn't clean it off.

The Toshiba VD5000 has a ring of positioning on the bottom plate, which makes it easy to place it in the center of the oven when warming up milk or vegetables, so that the microwave heats up more accurately, and doesn't get cold while it's hot.

After introducing the materials and features of the three ovens, next look at the accessories. tokit's baking pan is made of non-stick material, good for cleaning after avalanches to grease stains when baking meat, and the color and texture of the body is also more compatible.

The Daewoo All-in-One has an extra perforated steam tray, so you don't leave a pool of water in the tray when steaming food. Both the grill and steam tray are non-stick material is very easy to clean, and the light yellow color is more resistant to dirt.

The Toshiba comes with two non-stick baking trays and an enameled deep dish and a grill grid. That deep dish is used to cook food such as noodles and soup directly in the oven, which is really not quite in line with Chinese kitchen habits, I only used it once during the experience, and it has been eating dust since then.

Comparison of the size of the baking pans of the three ovens. The left tokit is 32L capacity, the center Daewoo 28L, the right Toshiba is 30L. the usable area of the baking pan looks about the same, also all non-stick. At this price point for a countertop oven, try to choose non-stick material, and it will be easy to use and clean later.

TOKIT is a pure oven, the other two have a steam function. The volume of the water tank of the two machines is quite a bit different, the left side is the Daewoo's water tank has 1000ml, the right side is the Toshiba's water tank is only 400ml, the range is less than double. The Daewoo can steam for 80-90 minutes at a time, while the Toshiba can only steam for 30-40 minutes. If you are steaming food that is not easy to cook, you may need to add water midway with the Toshiba all-in-one.

Back to the TOKIT, what makes it sell for $3000 as an oven with no other features? It's because it has a high-definition, high-temperature-resistant camera in the insulated glass inside the oven door, which records the entire process of food expansion and coloring in the cavity, and supports up to 1080p resolution. It feels like you just can't go low on the cost of this accessory, and while it may seem like a gimmick, it's still somewhat useful for baking enthusiasts.

It allows you to see the process of food expanding and becoming cooked in the oven. But that's about it, so it's a matter of opinion whether you'd be willing to spend $1000+ more on this camera feature if you just wanted a regular oven!

To summarize: the comparison above shows that TOKIT has the most single function, while Daewoo and Toshiba are more integrated and have more features. So how do they actually perform, see the next section.

First we tested the bake function of the three ovens, after all, bake is the core of these three machines.

The first test is the temperature calibration test, which uses a warming curve to record the temperature change of the three ovens. In order to test the results of the comparability of the three ovens are used in the most commonly used hot air baking function. Tie the thermocouple thermometer probe to the baking grid, place it in the middle of the oven, and record the temperature change every 30 seconds for 25 minutes.

The temperature curves for the three ovens were put together to better observe the results. The red curve is the tokit oven, the blue is the Daewoo, and the green is the Toshiba, one by one.

First the tokit (red curve) doesn't stop after warming all the way up to 180 degrees, continues to warm up to 200 degrees before it starts to pull back, and then hovers between 190-200 degrees, with temperatures on the high side by 10-20 degrees.

Daewoo Steam Bake Fryer integrated machine (blue curve), warmed up to 185 degrees after the temperature is no longer warmed up, at this time the preheating is over, the oven hovering between 172-184 degrees, temperature control is very accurate, to 180 degrees as the center of the temperature up and down a few degrees, very accurate, can not be counted on the temperature difference.

Finally, the Toshiba micro-steam grill integrated machine (green curve), it warms up very quickly, the other two 150 degrees when it has 210 degrees, and then began to cool down, after a few tremors in front of the stabilized at 190-200 degrees, the temperature is 10-20 degrees higher, which is why I said earlier that it is particularly easy to smoke the roast at the same temperature - the temperature is high, the back of the use of me! When I use the latter will be targeted to reduce the temperature a little, but each oven temperament is different, my adjustment is only for my oven, you can buy a thermometer to test their own machine.

All three ovens have an air fryer, and I've been using it a lot lately because it works better than the regular oven up and down the pipe, and it's a better way to get the oil out of the food and make it healthier, and the fierce heat flow also makes the food taste better on the skin.

A bag of chicken wings marinated, evenly distributed on three grill mesh. Grilled meat we prefer to use the grill net, so that the top and bottom sides of the meat can blow hot air, not the top of the cooked the bottom is still raw. What to do if there is oil? Simply put the baking sheet on the next layer to catch the oil. The baking tray is lined with a piece of greaseproof paper or tinfoil, which makes it easier to clean later.

tokit used the oven built-in baked chicken wings mode (220 degrees 18 minutes), Daewoo used the air frying function, 220 degrees 22 minutes (I feel that 18 minutes may not be able to cook and I like to eat the skin more charred a little bit), Toshiba also 220 degrees baked 16 minutes (set 22 minutes, the results of 15 minutes in the oven is full of grease and smoke, the house is full of oil smell, and the edges of the chicken wings have already been cooked. (the smell and the edges of the wings were already blackened and had to end early).

Let's see how the air frying function of the three ovens compares. The picture is not too obvious, the left side of the chicken wings skin color is slightly lighter, not baked in place, may also be the reason that I bought this in the Jingdong jumbo wings is too big, which also shows the automatic menu can not be based on the size of the food automatically fine-tune the time of the drawbacks of the food, if not for the effect of the comparison, I will be in the time after the re-roasted 5-8 minutes.

Looking at it this way, are the wings on the left side lighter in color? The middle Daewoo's color is more golden and appetizing, and the right side of the Toshiba baked in some places has become black and toasted, and there is a lot of greasy smoke in the oven, which affects the experience of using it.

The wings are broken open to see if they are cooked through. The left side of the tokit look closely at the center meat thickest place a little blood red. The center Daewoo baked out the effect is the best, basically all white cooked through. The right side of the Toshiba baked chicken wings are also a little red (red circle), because its temperature is too high, the outer skin is scorched inside is not cooked, so use this machine should be appropriate to lower the temperature (I do not know if the other vd5000 is not like this, anyway, I have this one is).

Finally, use the chicken bones to verify, you can see that the right side of the Toshiba peeled off the chicken bones there is still meat on the chicken bones, and cooked chicken wings can be easily separated from the bone and meat.

After testing the air frying, then try the steaming and baking function with the soft European bread. Since the tokit doesn't steam, it can only be tested with the bake function. First of all, the kneading part, want to see the specific production of soft Europe tutorial you can read the old Ji previous post oh.

This time, I made a mixed-fruit soft-o, and put in the orange peel, cranberries, dried blueberries, and raisins, which were soaked in rum for 2 days, so it was nutritious and delicious, and it was great.

At the end of the first fermentation, divide the dough into 0 equal pieces and place them on three baking trays.

Find a suitable temperature and humidity environment for fermentation

Don't forget to preheat the oven before the end of the fermentation, and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius in all three ovens. The dough should be dusted with flour and cut into bundles. The first thing you need to do is to put the dough in the oven and bake it!

The volume of the three ovens is different from the oil 32, 28, 30L, but the baked bread can only be put down by three.

Look at the baking results. The three ovens baked soft Europe roughly similar, let's take a closer look.

The bread baked by the tokit on the left has no steam intervention, and the crust is not crispy, just the feel of ordinary bread. The bread baked by Daewoo in the center has a brighter surface, with more obvious reflections in the red circle, and the cutout opening is better than on the left. The bread baked by Toshiba on the right side has a good cut opening, but although they are both in steam bake mode, the surface of the bread baked with Toshiba is not as bright, and is overall duller, and it's not clear what the reason is.

The three ovens baked soft European height is also similar. The color of the bread on the left and right sides is obviously darker than the one in the middle, which corresponds to the high temperatures of the two ovens in the previous temperature control test.

When cut open, all three loaves look essentially the same in terms of the thickness of the crispy crust layer and the internal organization.

Overall, the Daewoo baked soft omelette had the best golden color, with a bright oily sheen to the crust cutout. The Toshiba baked the soft bread too dark in color, great cuts but no oil shine. tokit baked the bread with average cuts, of course it's not a steam oven, so it's only for comparison reference.

Recently, we are all very concerned about how to completely eliminate bacteria and viruses, in addition to disinfecting the baby's tableware to prevent children with weak resistance to disease from the mouth, other time tableware disinfection is also very useful. For example, Lao Ji recently in the study of natural yeast Lupin species, if the tableware can not be thoroughly disinfected, the later raising the seed is very easy to grow hair, that will be a foregone conclusion.

Put the dishes and cookware that need to be sterilized on a steam tray, set in the oven, and fill the tank with water.

The sterilizing mode is a continuous 30-minute steam at 115 degrees, which destroys bacteria and viruses under the continuous action of the high temperature steam.

The dishes are very hot at the end of the disinfection function, do not take them out directly.

Look carefully at the tableware there are some water beads, do not worry, the use of glass good heat storage, and so the glass cooled down, the inside of the water beads will be completely evaporated, without leaving a trace.

Home to the elderly, children and other people with poor resistance, you can use this function to regularly disinfect the tableware, so that the food is safer and more secure.

Finally, we will test the water consumption of the steam function of Daewoo and Toshiba. Daewoo's tank is not filled with water, 850 grams. The Toshiba filled with water weighs 472 grams.

Using the regular steaming function at 100 degrees, the water tank was removed after 20 minutes to measure the weight. The remaining weight was 550 grams for the Daewoo and 135 grams for the Toshiba. In the same mode degree for the same length of time, the Daewoo consumed 300 grams of water and the Toshiba consumed 335 grams of water. The difference between the two is about 10%, which does not have a decisive impact on the steaming results, and the Daewoo is a bit better through the soft-oven steaming test.

Pull open the oven door and a strong jet of steam comes out. When we use the steam mode at home, we have to pay a little attention to the strong steam, do not burn oh!

After the detailed review above, let's conclude with a brief summary!

tokit oven review: the oven with camera, playable, practicality in general, low cost, only suitable for food bloggers, ordinary users will not be recommended.

Daewoo Steam Bake Fryer reviews: cost-effective at the same price, non-stick coating wipe easily, the heating pipe can be moved to facilitate cleaning. Temperature control quasi baking is not easy to turn over, easy to operate, steaming, baking, air frying all kinds of performance is good, and the value is very high, placed in the kitchen to look at is also very pleasant. The shortcomings are that the top cover of the water tank can not be removed, if you need to clean the water tank will be slightly troublesome, it is recommended that each time you finish in time to empty the residual water in the water tank.

Toshiba Micro Steam Roaster Review: more complete, very classy but expensive, 350 degrees baking is the industry ceiling, baked meat baked bread baguette has a unique advantage, is my baked baguette priority model. Shortcomings: the temperature is high, you need to self-correct, otherwise the color effect is easy to be too dark, roast the cavity is easy to leave the oil stains that can not be cleaned off, it is strongly not recommended to use more than 300 degrees baking (too contradictory, it is difficult to choose between keeping the oven perfect and the best baking results). In addition, after opening the door halfway, you need to re-press the start button to reheat, I used until now are not used to, Daewoo and tokit's will not be pulled open the door to interrupt the program, more in line with the habit of use.

What's the tradeoff for microwave capability? Daewoo and Toshiba compared to Toshiba, Toshiba has an additional microwave function, but the price is more expensive 2000, I feel that it is better to spend 300 dollars a single degree to buy a microwave oven (unless the kitchen space is only enough to put down an appliance and just need a microwave oven). In addition, the last few years, the number of microwave times, tasted the steam oven with the steam function heated out of the soft rice, you will not use the microwave oven ding.

Another point of complaint is that Toshiba's oven light and no basically the same, you can only see something inside, want to see clearly is unlikely, I have to use a cell phone flash every time, because the oven door in the middle of a layer of anti-microwave escape iron mesh cover, basically also look at a lonely.