Top 10 Best Convection Microwaves 2026: Expert Picks

Great microwave and all functions work perfectly. The ONLY thing it doesn’t have that I would like is there is no backlighting on the buttons. I put a little white dot next to a couple of buttons. Even with that issue, I give it 5 stars. Very happy we purchased this one.

It really is so different than a microwave. The ability to heat food up in the air fry mode is so much better than turning my gas oven. And then be able to microwave. It took a little to get used to the controls but now it’s fine. A little odd that the main microwave button “Cook time” is in a random spot rather than at the top or highlight it somehow. Wish companies used white type on black rather than the light grey (I ain’t getting any younger!). It is also a bit underpowered but not a big deal. The most annoying this this thing beeps soooo loud! So loud. I contacted GE to see if the volume could be turned down and they said no. It’s loud like something extremely dangerous is happening with the oven. Lol. Overall much better than a regular microwave.

This BLACK+DECKER microwave has been a great addition to my kitchen. It heats evenly, is simple to use, and has just the right amount of presets without being confusing. The size is perfect for everyday use without taking up too much counter space. It’s quiet, reliable, and does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Great value for the price and a solid choice if you want something straightforward and dependable.

I purchased this microwave on Amazon, and it works wonderfully. One feature I love is the automatic lock, which adds an extra layer of safety. I haven’t removed it, but it can be disabled if needed. The lock is especially great for households with children, as it helps prevent accidents and ensures that little ones cannot open the microwave and get burned. Overall, I’m extremely happy with this microwave. It’s reliable, easy to use, and gives me peace of mind. I absolutely love it and highly recommend it! And I think he fits my kitchen decoration perfectly.

I’m extremely happy with this Toshiba Air Fryer Microwave Combo! The design looks modern and sleek in my kitchen, and the stainless steel finish is beautiful. The 2.4-inch color screen is clear and easy to use. The air fryer function works great — food comes out crispy on the outside and tender on the inside without using much oil. The inverter technology heats food evenly, and the smart sensor makes cooking simple and convenient. I also love that it combines multiple functions in one appliance, which saves counter space. Overall, it’s powerful, versatile, and very easy to operate. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for a high-quality microwave with air fryer capabilities!

This microwave is an excellent choice for small spaces because it has a compact design while still being large enough to hold a full-size plate. It heats food evenly and features clear, easy-to-use controls. I especially appreciate its multiple functions, as it can operate as a microwave, air fryer and defrosting unit, which makes it very versatile for preparing different types of meals. The modern appearance also looks neat on the countertop. Overall performance is reliable and well worth the price.

Great microwave and air fryer combo. It has a safety lock feature. I just don’t really like the air fryer…maybe I have to practice more cooking with that feature but it takes too long to cook what I need, so I just use it as a microwave for now. I got it on sale and it’s a perfect size for my family to use. It looks beautiful too.

This thing is awesome I’m buying a second one for my motorhome

This is just what I wanted! Great and big enough for everything I do. Such power! Well packed and fast 1 day FREE delivery. My last microwave combo was a Frigidaire and it went bad less than 1 year. Very bad! Never heard such a racket in the back control unit were not allowed to open. Was so loud in all 3 modes. Their customer service was non existent! After over a week I was still needing more proof that I bought it from Walmart that is all on their records. Anyways done with anything Frigidaire makes. Also Walmart will not do anything after 90 days. Nothing so hit a dead end. Took the loss and moved on. This Toshiba I now have is so well made and way easier to use than the videos showed. Takes up the same room as the one it replaced. Love the air fryer for many things. The microwave was also needed. This is one well made machine! Such a pain without having even a microwave for the week I spent trying to get customer service to do something with my warranty.

I wanted a little bit of time to play with us before I write a review. But this thing is the most amazing purchase I made of all 2025. I have been able to test out just about every future and I truly am in love with this. Air fry works amazing baking is incredible. Traditional microwave is great. I love that. You can turn the sound completely off in all aspects. It’s a nice size the trays that it comes with for baking work wonders. It’s really easy to clean. My true test when it comes to air frying is always making tater tots because they are like the hardest thing to get to cook correctly crispy not burnt. They come out phenomenal in this thing. The color fits perfectly with the rest of our kitchen. The lock feature is super easy to use. The instruction manual clearly goes over everything as well as there is a laminated additional pamphlet that comes and it goes into detail using the already programmed features of this. I seriously have never been more pleased with an appliance purchase than I was with this.

I really like this GE microwave. After two days of searching, I rested on the GE, because it had all of the features I was looking for. The size, wattage, ease of operation, price, and look checked all of the boxes for me. We’ve had a built-in GE microwave for over 15 years that never needed servicing up until now, which speaks of the quality and durability of their machines. The button keypad is intuitive to use and easy to clean. I like that setting the clock is a quick setup unlike other microwaves I’ve dealt with in the past. The 1200 watt power level heats food quickly as one would expect. The functionality of the microwave is straightforward with no guessing of how to operate it. The amount of room within the heating compartment offers plenty of space for anything my family and I can throw at it. Overall: The microwave is very attractive and does a great job of heating up food.

I love it. It runs great and its not noisy. It is huge so I recommend making sure you have room on the counter and the power is nice on it. Stainless steel color is nice and its features and ease of use is great. Overall I am thrilled with this microwave compared to the Cuisinart one that failed after 3 years and the motor ended up going out.

Works great. Nice and quiet. Dimensionally, it seemed a bit smaller than stated, but it did fit where the old 2.5 cu microwave was removed.

This thing is brilliant. It’s very quiet and heats evenly even before using the inverter out of full mode. Despite having a massive turnplate and oven size, it doesn’t take up that much extra room and the hinges were done well. Installation was putting the turnplate in and plugging it in — anybody can do that in 30 seconds. My only gripe is the box layout put the glass turnplate facing the outside of the box on the top with nothing but a layer of cardboard protecting it from impacts. I’m sure you could get a replacement through Amazon but that’s just poor design IMHO.

Got the 1.6 Cu.Ft version. I’ve read some other reviews that said the clock/timer display was hard to see, ours was very easy to see. There was one review that said the touch buttons were black on black, that’s not true as they are a sort of silver’ish grey (like an aluminum color) on black and are easy to see if you are looking straight at them in a well lighted room. When you touch a button the actual touch point is very slightly up and to the left and not in the center of the button where its more intuitive to press. Plus it would be better if the silver’ish grey was white and not silver’ish grey, the ‘wording/writing/numbers’ for the buttons would stand out better if they were white. So my first suggestion for improvement is that the button press spot be in the center of the button where its more intuitive. However, this being said, its ok after you get used to it but I noticed my senior aged next door neighbor who came over to visit to look at the microwave because she wants to buy a new one, she tried to use it and it wasn’t very intuitive for her slightly shaky hands not having a definite intuitive point to aim for. My second suggestion for improvement is that It would be nice if the controls panel buttons were lit. As it is right now even though the control button locations are visible in a well lighted room looking straight at them, in a more dimly lit room or are looking at them off axis (not straight on) they are not as easy to see to older eyes even though still visible if you look more closely and directly at them. Lighting them would help. Contrary to that implied/stated by the advertisement there is not a “one touch popcorn button as kitchen essential”. To do popcorn without doing a timed cook by entering the cook time manually you use the ‘Custom Cook’ functions (page EN-25 – EN-26 in my manual in English). The one for popcorn is CC-6, you press the ‘Auto Cook’ button 6 times. But there is a problem with CC-6, and that is if you look at the manual you will see CC-6 is set up for 3.5 ounces of popcorn and this means if you use the ‘mini bags’ of popcorn which are about 1.5 ounces and use CC-6 that your popcorn is going to overcook and burn. For the 1.5 ounce ‘mini bags’ the cook time is 1 minute and 10 seconds and you need to set this manually and can’t use a ‘Custom Cook’ function. I can’t find a way to ‘program’ the ‘Custom Cook’ settings, and although I have not tried each of these settings with the items shown in the manual (or a comparable weight/portion of something else) to that shown, I suspect that anything outside of that manual listed ‘weight/portion’ would either over cook or under cook if a ‘Custom Cook’ setting was used. So my third suggestion for improvement is to allow a user defined ‘Custom Cook’ function to be programmed in and saved for recall later. Yes, I realize this thing costs ~150.00 + tax… so I don’t expect ‘super duper luxury’ type improvements, and these suggestions I know would be ignored and maybe they could be viewed as sort of nit-pickey in some ways. But if you want a decent microwave this one works well and works as advertised except for that advertised “one touch popcorn button as kitchen essential” thing which does not exist.

Really like this microwave. It is the perfect size. It is very quiet compared to other models. I like that it has a handle on the door, because the push button on most models is annoying at times. And I like that it has the one touch buttons.

This Toshiba microwave is exactly what I needed. It’s compact enough to fit perfectly on my small kitchen counter, but still powerful enough to heat food quickly and evenly. The six auto menus are super convenient. I use the popcorn and reheat settings all the time and they work flawlessly. The design looks sleek and modern with the black stainless finish and the control panel is easy to read and use. It’s also surprisingly quiet compared to other small microwaves I have owned. Whether I am heating leftovers, defrosting meat or making a quick snack it handles everything without a problem for its size performance and price. This is a fantastic little microwave. Highly recommended for apartments dorms or anyone short on counter space. Lili K.

This 900w 2.45GHz transmitter shows 903w of power on my meter, well within spec. The spectral purity (3rd order harmonics) are well within FCC limits. The controls offer a complete selections of operation cycles and but the minimal display only provides timing information, nothing about power output or standing wave ratios. The output of the transmitter is directed at a small Faraday cage, which is well shielded for the expected operating frequency. Do note that if electrically conductive items are placed in the cage during RF excitation some arcing may occur. Organic objects with water content will experience elevated temperature under prolonged operation. Some of the lab techs have used this phenomena to playfully reheat cold coffee and one even using it to explosively expand solid corn kernels. For the price, the ML-EM09PA(SS) microwave exciter, provides a decent value if you have a lab situation where you need a medium RF output at this frequency sent into a small Faraday cage. The choice of 2.45 GHz is interesting since it produces an electromagnetic field constantly flips polar water molecules, creating intense intermolecular friction that produces heat. It would be nice if Toshiba made other other frequencies available so that one could avoid this complication. But if one carefully selects their samples, this model provides a workable solution at a good price.

I bought this microwave primarily because, after 75 years of commercial availability, the intelligence level of our society has collapsed to the point that it intersects with the mad rush to have the government regulate everything. Now, microwave ovens are required to have childproof locks on the doors—even in households and other environments that never see children. This model has the idiocracy built right into the handle, letting me trigger the childproof feature in the same step I use to open the door. It allows me to pretend we don’t live in a dystopian world ruled by bureaucrats. All the other microwave ovens I looked at use a two-step process that would only frustrate people who just want to open a darn microwave door. This model comes with a warning sticker on the door explaining how to open it. If you’re a landlord or have a VRBO, you’ll want to leave the sticker on because otherwise somebody is going to rip the handle off trying to get the door open, or maybe even go the nuclear option and try to pry it open with a knife. People aren’t going to stand there trying to solve a microwave rubicks cube at the expense of their Hot Pocket getting cold. Even when it’s for the children! I have no doubt this microwave is actually using all 700 watts of its rated power. It outcooks the 700-watt Sunbeam it replaced—the little ray of sunshine that opened either by pulling the door or pressing the huge “open” button, without any needless bureaucratic hurdles or handles standing in the way. A microwave oven from a more civilized age. My only major complaint about this microwave is that the keypad requires superhuman strength in the fingers to register that a button has been pressed. I recommend putting your shoulder into it and letting your body weight do the work to avoid getting an injury. The microwave needs to be up against a wall to use it because the force required to use the keypad will push the microwave back until there is something to stop it, and then you need to keep pushing until it beeps. And if you want, for example, to hold the “4” button down for it automatically start for 4 minutes instead of pressing 4-0-0-start, you have to maintain Herculean pressure against the 4 button for several strenuous seconds, straining to keep your knuckles from buckling like you’re trying to hold an entire set of encyclopedias against the wall using only the strength from a single finger. And I mean all the encyclopedias. From A to Z. It’s easier to do 4-0-0-start so frankly that feature requiring the encyclopedia maneuver is worthless. I suppose the manufacturer is trying to future-proof their microwaves against full-blown microwave tyranny, where even the buttons would have to be childproof, because frankly, these buttons already are. The microwave works well, it looks sleek, it is the proper size and noise level for it’s wattage, it needs to be up against a wall, and the child-proof door opening mechanism is the best in it’s class.

Nice microwave. Bought this for the basement kitchen area. It is small compared to our regular upstairs microwave, but this thing gets the job done. It has simple buttons and features. The chime is really loud and we’d hear the sound even if we’re upstairs. We like that it has a door handle instead of a push latch. Our previous microwave broke down and we couldn’t even open it because it had a push latch. And we had a mug in there too. But, we did get it out. Shipping was fast. Setup was simple. Just take it out of the box. Clean the inside, plug it in the socket, and start microwaving! Good purchase for us.