Reading the Farang Food & Home Cooking thread has stimulated my thinking. Can anyone recommend a conventional style oven (ideally microwave SIZE) that can be used for some home type cooking, e.g. baking bread, pizzas, casseroles, joints of meat, making (apple) pies, heating meat pies etc.

We used an electric desktop oven for about 3 years before the new kitchen was installed. Bought it in Robinsons for around 3,000 bht. A little bigger than a microwave but they did have a smaller unit as well. Regularly used it for roasting meats, made countless casseroles and pasta bakes, baked meat or fruit pies and made garlic bread with cheese.
Manufactured by a company called Home Worth, no I'd never heard of them either but it was a god send.

We bought a full-size propane range/over from Makro last year for around 5,000 baht. Wife uses it to roast turkeys (6 kilo), chicken, pot roast, etc. Also has three burners on top for regular cooking.

polehawk wrote:We bought a full-size propane range/over from Makro last year for around 5,000 baht. Wife uses it to roast turkeys (6 kilo), chicken, pot roast, etc. Also has three burners on top for regular cooking.

Is it made by Sanyo? I saw it before at Makro and wondered how well worked. For the price I didn't think it would be sufficient for roasting or baking. Anyway, I haven't seen in the store lately and and wonder if they've discontinued stocking it.

Carrefore carries a similar model for around 8,000bt.

I had one of these gas ovens.They are very good value. But the limited to get a high temperature> Unfortunately, got so rusty,threw it out.
Got a electric unit from Macro.Excellent for cooking/roasting! Only problem is rather small if you want cook in bulk!

As I said, I'm only looking for a small microwave size oven.

Thanks for the input so far.

I bought this one from Robinson's http://www.panasonic.com.my/web/pid/2140



It does everything i.e microwave, steam, bake, grill, oven etc. I'm pretty happy with it so far.

That looks really good appliance....... How much !

Can you Roast a decent sized chicken in it..?

Can you Roast a decent sized chicken in it..?

Never mind a chicken,what about a Turkey?

See OP,- As I said previously, I'm not looking for a big oven, just table top, microwave size.

The web link says 25 litres capacity.

Hi,
Got one in Big C, made by Swiss and has a rotisserie. Electric with heaters in top and bottom The ross. will take a 5 pound duck which i have cooked. If you want to cook anything bigger you can use the racks.
There are heaters in the top and bottom, you can use together or in any other combination. Has a 60min timer etc on it. Very good value at 2800B last year. It is not plastic but stainless steel, which i prefer as the top tends to get hot, and plastic does not like this. The plastic ones are 600B cheaper.
Cheers Doug.

arjay I have seen them in Tesco in udon and it about the size of a micro wave as for price I don't remember even some of the micro waves now come with conventional oven I wouldn't buy one
I have a big bowl (oven) which cooks whole chicken it seems to me it cooks from heat & moisture but don't quote me I am not the brightest bulb in here LOL you have you shop and see what is best for you

I can't recommend one, but whatever choice you make don't get an Electrolux EOT-3000. I have one and although it grills and bakes it takes twice as long as a conventional oven. The highest oven setting is 200*, but I seriously doubt it will completely bake a pie or roast a whole chicken.



Makro has a selection of "toaster oven's" and also carries the brand name Chriss refers to in his post (possibly for less) some models that I've seen have the rotisserie attachment.

arjay wrote:See OP,- As I said previously, I'm not looking for a big oven, just table top, microwave size.

Arjay, I did read your OP. The oven I purchased is for a table top, it's small and compact and only slightly larger than a standard microwave. This is not a large oven!