Welcome to UK Microwaves

Welcome to UK Microwaves, the number one guide to microwave ovens in the UK. If you are looking to buy a microwave oven online in the UK then you have come to the right place; we have all of the information that you could ever need and also provide lots of microwaves on each page which are from top kitchen appliance shops.

When buying a microwave oven online there are allot of choices and this web site aims to help you with those choices, not only do we explain all of the features that microwave ovens have but we also make it very easy to buy the right microwave oven for your needs. On each page we list lots of specific microwave ovens that match the theme of that page, be it a specific brand or feature so it is very easy to buy the right microwave using this web site. We also list the microwaves from the top online shops and with the cheapest first so it is easy to find the cheap deals and save lots of money.

The Different Types Of Microwave Oven

There are three main types of microwave with the cheapest being the standard microwaves. These are cheap as they only have one way of cooking which is the standard microwaving, they cannot cook or grill like an oven but are great for defrosting, re-heating or cooking food that is designed to be cooked in a microwave and they are also very cheap.

There are then microwaves that have an in-built grill which enables you to grill food in your microwave and also combine the grill with the microwave to brown and crisp your food.

The third and best type of microwave oven is the combination microwave which includes a microwave, grill and convection (hot-air) oven and offers a full range of cooking options. A combination microwave can cook just like a standard oven but is much smaller and so saves space and money, combination microwaves do cost more than the cheap standard microwaves but they offer so much more and are well worth the money.

Power

The power of the microwave is very important as this will dictate how quickly the microwave can cook food. The power is measured in watts and you should buy the most powerful microwave that you can afford as it will save you lots of time, food that is designed to be cooked in a microwave will have times for different powers of microwave and the microwaves with less power often have much longer cooking times and this is especially true for food which needs allot of time to cook.

Cooking Capacity

The cooking capacity of the microwave oven is also important as this states how much room you will have for food when cooking. Microwave ovens with larger capacities have more width and height and so you can cook larger food or several different foods at the same time, the capacity is measured in cubic feet and you have to consider how much food you are likely to be cooking at the same time when deciding on the capacity to buy.

Other Useful Features

There are several other features that are well worth looking out for when you buy a microwave oven. The cooking options are very useful and include sequence and sensor cooking, sequence cooking allows you to program the microwave to cook at different levels for certain amounts of time in sequence so that you can set the microwave to perform all of the necessary steps to cook the food without your intervention. The sensor cooking is also very useful indeed as with a sensor a microwave can tell if the food is cooked or not by sensing the food moisture and oven humidity and so can therefore cook the food until it is ready.

Many microwaves also have programmes that are designed for certain types of food which makes cooking them very easy, you simply choose the type of food and the weight and then let the microwave do the cooking. On many microwaves you can also set the microwave to start cooking at a certain time which makes it easy to co-ordinate your microwave cooking.

The type of controls that the microwave oven has is also important as some have dials and some have digital touch controls, the dials are usually found on the cheap microwaves with the digital touch controls being found on the more advanced microwaves.

So buying a microwave oven can offer lots of advantages and make your cooking easy, you just need to buy a microwave with the right features and of the right size. We have pages on this web site for each brand of microwave and we also have pages for specific features and on each page we list lots of microwave ovens that are of that brand or have that feature. We also list the microwaves with the cheapest first so this makes it very easy to firstly find the right microwave oven and secondly to find the cheap deals, all of the microwaves are also from the top online shops and they often have cheap special offers and deals so there are often cheap deals to be found.