HeY warmfridge, yes I use both convection and microwave to do the tater. The Elux speed oven sets those automatically. You "choose potatoes" from the menu, then it asks, "How many", I always answer 2 even thou it is 1 (usually very large tater). It then chooses the temp, the preheat time and baking time, and tells you to remove food. You push "Start", it preheats(takes about 7 mins), then it beeps, and tells you to place the food in the oven. It then takes 7 mins and 40 secs to do the tater, again beeps when it is done. I'm not sure whether it is using "convection and MW" or just using the "regular baking elements + Mw". The tater always comes out with a nice browned skin, and done perfectly inside. You can see this for yourself if you google "The great potato race". Mojavean and I had a contest, He with his Miele, and I the Elux, results were very similar as well as time (I think I "barely edged him out) but if you watch it, you will see His did not preheat, and He had to set parameters as far as temp,time (Nuking and convection) etc. Except for reheating things and making my coffee, I pretty much use the "Combi mode" for everything, as like many folks here "Grey Meat", is not all that appetizing to me, and using the "combi mode" Elux calls it "Basic" (Under the speed cook options)I've done Turkey thighs,stuffed porkchops etc etc and been happy with the results. The other option under Speed Cook is "Recipes" where the Speed oven had 134 "built in recipes". HTH's Warmfridge!!! Gary

I personally would stay away from combined units, IMHO it can just lead to more problems. Single units tend to be, from what I have read, more reliable over the long term. Think of it this way, if either the over or the micro go out on a combined "double" unit then you could be down two units instead of just one. They have a combined set of controls on them, so again if the controls go bad you lose 2 units not just one. I know this may not happen often, but for me while I have been researching and my wife agrees with me on this, we feel safer going with separate units. One other advantage to getting separates is that you can get the features you want in each unit and not have to compromise on either unit. Again, just my opinion. Phil

A couple of questions: Why a double oven? Have you seen one? How are you going to use it? We are currently researching to purchase a 30" oven for our small kitchen and I initially thought that a double oven would be a great way to go . . . that is until I saw one and realized that the bottom oven would require me to be nearly on my knees to check out what was going on in the oven (the door on the Electolux is nearly on the floor with the handle) and that it wasn't big enough for baking a turkey or accommodating some of my larger pots/pans. Three trays would seem to limit circulation even with convection. Additionally, the smaller second oven would be of limited use to me as it only accommodated one rack; sure I could use it for warming or baking a pizza but the rest of the time I would have to deal with the second oven being so much closer to the floor. But, I admit that I was stoked initially with the idea of a dual oven . . .ahh, the flexibility, I could bake and roast . . . So, for us, I have eliminated the double oven range idea and are sticking with a regular 30" freestanding range. Just something to consider.

I know this is a really old post - but I have to say - WOW! How insulting! I have replaced my oven with an air fryer and I didn't do it because of an "infomercial". In fact I've not been able to watch over the air TV for decades now (I stream only). So I haven't seen an infomercial of any sort for about 30 years or more. Can I bake a wedding cake in my air fryer? A pie? Cookies? NO. And I don't care. I'm a type 2 diabetic. I don't do baking any more. That's sort of the point for those of us who are older and on our own. We don't cook for crowds any more. More often than not we don't even cook for ourselves. Because our appetites are smaller, and our energy no longer flows from a seemingly endless font. AND, our memories? Not the best. With the air fryer, it shuts off by itself whether I remember I've got something cooking or not. I make chops, burgers, wings, and various low carb fries in mine on a daily basis. My breakfast is 4 maple flavored sausage links - done to perfection without any attention from me in less than 15 mins (I like it REALLY CRISPY as in nearly burnt). Pork chop took half an hour - THICK pork chop, I didn't even have to turn it. Set it at about 350F and forgot about it. I didn't set anything on fire and the chop was done to perfection without me having to do ANYTHING. Next time I'll turn it all the way up to 400F and go for 20 mins. I have the smaller Phillips and it admittedly doesn't cook all that much at once, but then I don't need it to. If I want a couple of egg rolls, it takes 10 mins in the air fryer and a fraction of the energy required to heat up that whole oven space. And before I had the air fryer, I would more often than not just skip eating altogether rather than wait for the big oven to heat up and then end up with 2 slightly soggy egg rolls anyway. The air fryer is handier, quicker, and egg rolls come out of it SUPER DUPER crispy, not soggy with hard spots like from the microwave. The air fryer is better even than the big oven. And there is the Gowise 12.7 qt air fryer "oven" that gives you a lot more surface area. I'm about to move but after I am all moved, I'm getting one because I would like to be able to do air fryer fries along with my air fryer burgers/chops/whatever for a whole meal and you can't do that in the typical Phillips-type air fryer (not simultaneously anyway). At least not without a lot of intervention (as in having to shake or stir stuff to distribute it and expose more of the surface to the hot air). The Gowise is like a teensy little oven with 3 teensy little shelves so you can just lay out a single layer on each shelf and still have plenty of air circulation. Should do for my purposes. As soon as I get settled, I'll be giving it a try anyway. The Actifry, btw, is not a typical air fryer. I'm not sure it qualifies at all really. One of its drawbacks is that it goes only to a maximum temp of 338F - IF the temperature control is working properly, which they usually don't in cheap devices of this sort. Hence things don't come out of it nearly as crispy as actual air fryers that heat up to a more reasonable maximum temperature. The Phillips I have, for instance, maxes out at 400F, and the Gowise mentioned above tops out at 430F. Oh, and btw - homes and apartments in the US are NOT required to have ovens, stoves, and/or refrigerators. I have rented many many times place that had nothing in the kitchen but a sink. It is perfectly legal nearly everywhere (if not everywhere). My kitchen, set up for safety and not because I don't have a stove, consists of an induction hob (no open flame, autoshutoff, on a timer), the air fryer (turns off with the timer), and an0 Instant Pot Ultra 6qt - I'd have gone for the 8qt but they didn't have it in the Ultra model at the time. I use these three all the time. There are 2 other devices useful for a safe kitchen/range-less kitchen that I have but no longer use much since I turned up diabetic. First is a Zojirushi breadmaker and second is a Zojirushi micom rice cooker that I love but also barely use because rice is a thing Type 2 diabetics should not be eating. BUT IF I COULD still eat bread and rice, those devices would provide it for me. The IPs actually do rice pretty well but I had the Zo rice cooker already before I bought the IP. In fact I turned up diabetic less than a month after I got the rice cooker (which is the best rice cooker I have ever owned in 40 years). I don't need a conventional oven, at all. Most people actually don't. You can cook nearly everything with just 2 countertop appliances, an induction hob and a good air fryer. You can expand your capabilities a lot with an Instant Pot. Some people DO bake cookies and small pies and cakes in air fryers but if that doesn't work for you, get a good breadmaker and you can make all sorts of cobblers, cakes, and bread without an oven and without a mixer even. And a good rice cooker is still useful if you eat a lot of rice so you don't have to tie up an IP making rice.