Brinkmann is junk, plain and simple. Between the two you mention, without question the BBQG grill is the one to get.

I don't know about another owner review. Have you seen this article/review? I am not a big fan of CR but..... _________________________________________________________________________________ Mixed review for TurboChef Speedcook Consumer Reports finds flaws in TurboChef's celebrated Speedcook oven. by Kim Girard May 22, 2008 4:04 PM PDT TurboChef's Speedcook oven has grabbed some serious attention over the past year, nabbing Sex and the City co-star Kim Cattrall as its spokes-actress and the support of top chef/kitchen stuff endorsers like Charlie Trotter. Fawning articles in Forbes, the New York Times, and Business Week are piling up faster than the oven can roast a chicken. And boy, can this oven cook fast--up to 15 times faster than any other conventional oven, finishing a rack of lamb in about the time it takes me to shower. It looks pretty spiffy, too, while dusting the competition. (Take that, slow food cookers!!) At the 2007 TED conference, clearly impressed New York Times tech columnist David Pogue blogged in awe after he watched a presenter use the oven to fix a rack of souffl?s in 90 seconds flat while the "Mission: Impossible" theme played. Now Consumer Reports is weighing in and the reports are, well, mixed for this double oven model which, at $7,895 is pricier than competing models like the Miele 30-inch MasterChef (about $5,000). The full review won't be out until CR's upcoming August 2008 issue. In this first look, however, the magazine calls the hot oven "fast but flawed." Reviewers liked that the oven "zipped through frozen hors d'oeuvres in 1 to 2 minutes compared with 15 minutes, a pound of frozen French fries in 4 minutes instead of 25 minutes, and 24 chocolate-chip and butter cookies in 6 minutes." They also praised the second oven (pictured above) on this model that lets you make dinner and dessert at the same time. But CR found problems, too, including the Speedcook oven's size (too small) and its cooking controls. "If you're trying to cook something not in the TurboChef's recipe library you're forced to choose a preprogrammed setting for an item similar to what you're cooking," the review says. Here's the TurboChef spokesman's e-mailed response: The oven can cook anything you can find in your grocery store. It has over 500 preprogrammed cook settings that allow for this. For certain items you'll find more general settings. For instance, I cook a family favorite squash casserole. It cooks up perfectly under a "general casserole" setting. Consumer Reports also noted that the oven tends to overcook some items and undercook others. "It overcooked drumsticks and wings when we've roasted whole chickens and turkeys. Yet when we've prepared pork tenderloin and roast beef, the oven undercooked the inside while overcooking the outsides." TurboChef spokesman's response: The oven was designed to give the home cook flexibility with the cook settings. The oven will prompt you 80 percent through the cooking cycle to check the progress of your dish and make the choice to brown less, cook less, do both or continue without change. At 100 percent, you are prompted again to check your food and select (whether to) brown more, cook more, do both, or finish. You can also save those adjustments to your "favorites" if you like, so the next time you cook you get personalized results. (He also recommends that home cooks let meat sit at room temp out of the fridge before cooking and let meat rest after cooking). The Speedcook oven works using whirling blasts of heated air emitted from the oven's 85 small holes. The air moves at up to 60 mph, heating food inside and out. Other vendors are speeding up cooking times, too. GE's Advantium microwave (about $1,549), for one, uses its own Speedcook (Hmmmm, did anyone trademark?) technology to roast a whole chicken in 20 minutes. This leads me to my humble question: to what end? Speed is good, but I find myself pondering this New York Times reader's post: "Yeah, cook faster, then eat faster, then you can die quickly and be done with it. Where did all the fun go?" Well the oven does look awfully nice. Read more: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13553_1-9950369-32.html#ixzz2ZBToyGZv Here is a link that might be useful: LINK

I have a similar unit. Probably had it for 10-15 years at least. I leave it out and use it a lot. I like it for quick cooking of things. I'll use it for cooking bacon, browning ribs before slow-cooking them and it's far better than the microwave for things like Pizza Rolls. No preheating and set it for 6 minutes and they're done perfectly. With the convection fan, it does cause problems if you try to use shredded cheese, for example or for batter type things. But I've made meatloaf in it, garlic bread, etc. I've never tried using the top on a frypan on the stove like they say you can nor have I tried making chili or soup. I've made things like tater tot hotdish in a round cakepan though. A 9x9 pan won't fit in mine but the round cakepans work fine. I often line it or set things on foil. I've cooked burgers, sausage and the like in it but all in all I like the microwave for sausage though, at least most of the time. I bought mine at Walmart and I think it was around $20 or so. I've been looking at the ones with halogen and skeptical about them too. One thing I've determined though, I don't like the design on the unit that sits over everything, I prefer the one that is more of a big bowl with a lid. I look at the infomercials and they have to use both hands to remove the top, then find a place to set the top. With mine, I can pick up the lid and when you lift the handle up it turns it off, then I can hold it in one hand, flip or stir the contents and put the lid back on. I think the other would be very inconvenient. Oh, I did try dry cooking shelled eggs in it like they said you could do. It probably would work fine, but I overcooked those things soooooo much! Haven't tried it since!

Yep, it is a Turbo Cooker and I got one too. I used it only once and made cupcakes. Some sort of cherry chocolatey cupcakes that used cherry coke, I believe. It was too long ago to remember. But, it did well. The cupcakes were light and fluffy and... yummy =o) It was supposed to speed up the cooking time and should do steam, roast, etc. However, there was a flaw in the design, the lid. It wasn't heavy enough to stay down and tight in order for the steam not to get out. I packed it up when moved and now, I'm not sure where mine is. I'm going to try and find it. I miss those cupcakes!