I got orientation help from Mama Gail and Hank Johnson and put together my first dinner in the nuwave oven I had purchased. The dinner turned out better than others I had made in my past. I sliced a potato into about 8 pieces and wrapped it in foil and put rosemary and cracked pepper on it and 2 tablespoons of water then packaged it for the oven. The chops I had were frozen solid so I put a little olive oil in the bag that held them along with rosemary and cracked pepper and shook the bag well to coat the chops with the oil and spices. Once that was done the chops got put on the rack in the oven and were not packaged. I had a head of cauliflower so stripped it off the larger plant matter and put the cauliflower in the bag that had held the chops olive oil and spices and shook the cauliflower to coat it. Then I packaged the cauliflower in foil. I set the oven for 15 minutes and hit the start button and let the chops and potato cook. when that time was up, I removed the head from the dome and put the cauliflower packet in the oven and put the head back on and ran the oven for another five minutes. When removing the oven head though I first unplugged it for safety reasons. When this cooking time was done, I found out the battery in my talking thermometer was close to dead and couldn't get a reading. So back goes the head for another five minutes of cooking. When finished, the pork chops were a little tough (half inch and maybe not the best quality in the first place). The cauliflower was like the Chinese like to cook it still a little crispy. The potato was cooked through perfectly though and benefited from the spices used. When I do that next time, I think I'll cook cauliflower for 15 minutes. Perhaps 20 minutes should have been the limit for those chops too, but I'll find that out the next time I cook this meal and the battery in the talking thermometer can make the thermometer give me a temperature. All in all, definitely worth the money and the learning curve. Two things to keep in mind, foil comes out more brittle than when it went in and the oven is very quiet. All you hear is something like a quiet fan running when it's in operation with the exception of the beep on inserting a plug in the wall (wish more appliances did that) and beeps when you use the keys on the oven head and the beeps when cooking is finished three short and one long. With the exception of the power head everything disassembles and is dishwasher safe. This oven is definitely a keeper.
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