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We ordered this a few weeks ago, so far we have tried potatoes fries, pizza, roasted chicken and we roasted some almonds as well. Everything came out excellent. This oven is indeed a multifunction appliance. It first is a convection oven similar to a Rotisserie oven, but with a turntable rack. So you are not limited to roasted chicken and ribs but can put smaller pieces on the turntable. The second function is to replace the turntable with a food tumbler or paddle, it then turns into an automatic stir fryer. We made some fries from fresh potato. Needless to say the fries are much less greasy with only one spoon of oil, but we are thrilled to see this actually works. It means this cooker can take the tedious labor work out of cooking.

With everything we have cooked in this turbofry oven so far well done, we are very pleased with this product.

Roasted chicken is second to none. The first chicken we cooked is perfect, golden crispy skin bottom and up, and juicy inside. Cut and squeeze the chicken breast with a knife yourself, you will see what I mean juicy. The second time we surround the chicken with lots of veggies carrots potatoes, seemed like the excessive veggies blocked the air flow to the bottom thus the underneath of the chicken was not crispy.

Potato fries, We have not used similar products so there is no way to compare the results. But the paddle does mix the oil and fries well in a gentle way. The tumbler aid on the inner side of the glass bowl helps the mixing better. The tumbler aid could make some noise when we roast almonds, we then removed the tumbler aid and it just worked as good.

Pizza, this oven is a perfect appliance to make pizza. Pizza finished with a crispy crust and the excessive moisture on the pizza top were carried away by strong hot air circulation. And we have never preheat the oven which is a plus. Using extender ring gives better results. Con: only bakes pizza up to 9" .

Extender ring is very useful. Good thing is it comes free with the purchase.

And again, it is one of the best kitchen appliances we ever invested. We have extensively used it for a few weeks, at least one use per day, multiple uses during weekends, so far there is not the slightest regret.

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Bought this a few weeks ago, so far everything we cooked in this oven turned out to be AMAZING!! Chicken is always cooked to perfection, the skin is crispy and inside is juicy, I am thinking of taking a picture to show you guys. There is a lot of oil drip to the bottom. You do not have to flip it half way during the cooking, the bottom of the chicken is browned as well. We have tried pizza, freshly cut potato fries, they all turned out delicious. Really in love this oven.

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Since we had the other oven from Secura the 997 and liked it we thought we would try this one--since it was the "latest, greatest" from the company. A big mistake! This one comes with more gadgets and about the only advantage to this over the all digital 997 is that it has a turntable to rotate food. Supposedly it can fry foods as well.

But that is it...everything else is worse about this than the all digital model that is $30 less. First of all it uses more electricity 1550W vs. 1350 for the halogen cooking oven. It also takes longer to cook than the old oven. Some "genius" in the engineering dept. at Secura decided to make 482 degrees the maximum temp for the oven--I think he is now working on making 61MPH speed limits on some highway or clocks that go up to 11:37PM. Nonetheless, the old unit tops out at a very normal 500 degrees. Additionally, this unit never gets up to the 482 degrees promised. When I used my cooking thermometer it topped out at 350 degrees even though it was supposed to get to 482 degrees--mind you that was after it cooked for 30 mins.

Aside from that this sucker is super noisy, much louder than the old unit. It also has a plug that is half the length of the old plug and when you put the lid up it actually locks now and you've to physically unlock to move it again. On the old unit you would simply put the lid up, it would stay in place and you would then put it down. Also, on the old unit it was a nice digital timer and temperature selector...on the new unit it is a cheesy manual timer that dings like a $5 kitchen timer.

Don't even think of calling Secura if you've a problem! They're too cheap to have a customer service line so you've to email them for support and if you're lucky enough--about three days later--they will respond to you. Even the NuWave oven has a phone line.

In short, this is really disappointing--usually companies improve products not worsen them. If you want a speedy oven the digital 997 will be just fine and come in at $30 less than this overpriced piece of junk!

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One of my friends has been bragging about turbo oven. I was tempted to give it a try and encountered this newer model. I have not used a turbo oven before, only saw how it worked a few times. I can't give thorough comparison, but one thing I can confirm is that the roasted whole chicken is way better than the old turbo oven. Chicken skin is golden brown in a way I have never seen before. No kidding!!@!! The heating of this oven is so evenly that when the chicken is done it does not look like roasted in an oven. I had a feeling that someone just sprayed color on it so uniformly. That is amazing.

The turbo fan is way powerful than before. Actually if you apply powdered seasoning, it has a high chance to blow it away. I have to either add powered ssasoning after cooking or mix it with oil and then apply on food.

So man functions, so many things you can cook in the oven. I have been roasting almond, coffee beans, things I have never done at home. Roasted almond was done in 10 or 15 minutes, I cannot remember. And it turned out to be perfect because the almonds do not touch any hot surface, so no side is burn, they are surrounded by hot air can the paddle keeps stirring. When it is done, you have to wait for the almonds to cool to become crispy. Hot almonds are not crispy.

Can't cook soup, the glass bowl has a hole at the bottom. But the hole makes it easier to carry and wash at the sink. Cook book comes with the machine looks nice, but I usually do not follow the recipes. Overall very pleased with this gadget.

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The unit has a silicone ring around the glass cover to make a seal with the glass bowl. It peeled off both times we tried cooking with the unit, ending up with half of the o-ring bunching up next to the heating element. It's not fun trying to replace the o-ring with oven mitts so you can continue cooking.

The timer is horrible. It's literally a timer you would find in a .99 cents store, complete with the cheap "Ding" when done. The unit won't engage unless you turn it past 6 minutes. There is no way to reset the timer. If you wish to stop cooking early by lifting up the cover, the timer will simply continue to run down.

The two items we did cook came out uneven, and took much longer to cook then estimated. How a food can come out cooked unevenly in a convection oven has me stumped. Yet both items cooked had parts that were cold and parts that were warm.

The documentation was very lacking. It came with a small "how to" guide, with a cooking chart that was way off in it's estimates.

This unit was going to replace our Nu-wave oven. We wanted to try something with a glass bowl, since we are working on our 3rd enclosure (they keep cracking). Unfortunately this won't be the replacement. Cooking times were much longer than estimated (twice as long). It seems the unit doesn't get the temperature high enough.