Geniuses didn't have the thought to cook the chicken breast side down for the first half, which gives a much crisper skin and more juicy meat. I bought the budget one before seeing this and we now cook everything in it, never turn on the main oven. Cakes, whole chicken, steamed veg from frozen, apart from fried food it's in the microwave. Never had a bad result. Before cooking anything for the first time I just look at someone else doing it on RU-vid..
There is a problem, very few demo videos actually use the combinations, Why? Because the manufacturers don't make it easy to work out how the combination will affect the food you are cooking. You don't want to be risking a valuable piece of meat on a system where you do not really know what is going to happen. Nearly all of them tell you about Salmon and asparagus, neither of which are really part of basic weekly meals. If you have a probe that helps a lot, but you still have to decide a mix of microwave, combi oven and maybe grill, that will cook and brown, before you hit the probe temperature. You can't help feeling it should be a useful combination, but as I said, we have to take a risk a few times before we work out how to use them. That risk has you turning on the conventional oven just because it is so much easier.
The sage ovens also have an inherent fault with the Crispin pan with the legs melting and coming off. I like the look and the concept of the SAGE but I will stick with and buy Panasonic anyday had my one now 10 years and still working great
My pet peeve is the three legged grilling racks, great design if you want your scalding hot food to spill as you slide it off the rack and the rack tips. Idiot design.
and the Breville is Sage. I suspect one acquired the other & each brand was maintained due to the existing name recognition. I have to wonder about the organisation & increased costs of having a seperate product line for the UK, although it's probably insignificant to stamp the door 1 of 2 ways, vs varied power inputs for various countries.
What a terrible video, I didn't get beyond the creamy pots. They are cooked in the oven not the grill. I have a combination microwave and the grill function has 3 heat settings, when preparing the pots the lady was holding a pot with bare fingers. Not hot then. The taste test was obviously done using warm to cold food. This comparison was done on a narrow boat, where did they get the electricity to power these devices? Any generator on a narrow boat would have tripped out the moment one of them was switched on. FAKE FAKE FAKE that's for each, the product test, the boat owner and that pathetic presenter. I had stopped watching the gadget show along time ago. This crap just reinforced my decision.