Everyone knows what a microwave is used for, but this little gem expands the options beautifully. It converts easily to a convection oven that browns and bakes. The sensor is brilliant and whether re-heating soup or pasta, or baking a chicken (yes, with crisp skin), it comes out perfectly. I am still exploring its capabilities, but am very impressed already.
Love this appliance. Just what I was looking for. It fit in the previous microwave area in my kitchen and gives me the option of an additional oven as well. Love the features and the stylish look.
We Love our new Cafe microwave/convection oven! We have only used it as a microwave so far. It works great! And I love the WiFi feature! Couldn’t be happier with it so far. Have only had it about 3 weeks so far.
Great performance and great appearance and style. Looks great with our other Cafe products
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from cafeappliances.comBy Chris@CaféAppliances, Café Appliances, October 5, 2021
Hello, thank you for your review. We're glad to hear that you have been overall pleased with the design and functionality of your new Advantium. If you have any questions or concerns about its functionality, please feel free to reach out any time as we are always here to help. Welcome to the Café Appliances Family! -Chris@Café
Paid to have this installed as a very expensive package in new home with double oven and range. When I connect the oven and microwave to the app, the time always resets itself to East Coast time (I'm on PST), so people come over and say "Hey, your time is wrong. Isn't this a new oven?" And we have to explain that the "smart" oven is just really really stupid. (Yes, we have selected "PST" in the app"). Also, we now get "Error F696" constantly. This is apparently an error with connection between the app and the appliance. The issue is that when we get this error an alarm sounds so sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night to our appliances making alarming sounds just because they can't connect to the app. We recently changed our router settings so it's understandable that the appliances will no longer connect. Should be an easy fix, right? NOPE. When we tell the appliance to "Disconnect from WiFi and forget networks" it doesn't do anything so it keeps trying to connect to the old network that no longer exists. These are under warranty so we had the GE repair guy come out. He said these are known problems and allegedly updated the software. Guess what? Still no fix - still getting F696 errors randomly. Also, the timer countdown for the microwave is VERY wonky. Usually it works correctly, but we have noticed recently that it now skips numbers like 30, 27, 25, 20, 16, etc. What in the heck, GE? This seems like a safety issue because we can't tell how long a food has been microwaving.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from cafeappliances.comBy Vikki@Cafe, Cafe_Appliances, May 18, 2021
Hi - We are deeply sorry to hear about the difficulty you are having with your wall oven and microwave. We can certainly appreciate the frustration and inconvenience you have experienced. We also understand you have had service out to check the oven and would encourage you to schedule an additional appointment to have both appliances checked. Please call 1-800-432-2737 M-F 7am-10pm, Sat 8am-6pm, Sun 8am-6pm EST to schedule a service appointment with an authorized GE service location. We truly wish you all the best! Vikki@Cafe