I just got my NuWave Oven in the mail and had to share my thoughts with JennyReviews.com!
First off, you must see the commercial. I love their time-lapse videos; they show the food cooking perfectly inside the see through oven in super speed; which I thought was really neat!
I love my Nu Wave Oven cooker, but it doesn’t cook quite that fast hehe!
It does cook much, much faster than my normal oven. I cooked a thick frozen steak in just 30 minutes! The best part was, the steak was still super juicy, not rubbery like the microwave makes things.
The reason it works so well, is because it uses convection, infrared and conduction heat all at once to cook things super fast. I also loved it because it didn’t heat up my entire kitchen while I cooked. I haven't checked my power bill, but the NuWave Oven uses far less energy than my normal oven.
The oven also works like one of those indoor grills and lets the fat drip off the food into a collection tray. It was really fun to watch stuff cook through a glass top, but it was even better to know I wasn’t eating all that unnecessary fat.
The New Wave Oven also won some the Chef's Best Performance award, for 8 years in a row!
I really like my little infomercial oven, my old oven is just collecting dust!
I found a site to buy NuWave Oven online instead of calling the 1-800 number on TV.
Go get one, I swear you'll be using your old oven for a cupboard as soon as you plug the NuWave oven in!
NuWave Oven Review Submitted by Kelly P.
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48 Customer Reviews of “NuWave Oven”
Review by Torian Stinnette April 7, 2013
I purchased the Nuwave Oven for my mother as a gift, when it first came out. She has been very pleased with the product and cooks on it on a regular basis. I later purchased one for my self and my sister. I love the Nuwave oven. The complaints on this site could be due to faulty ovens. I would recommend having it replaced and try it again. There has not been one time for either my mom, myself, or my sister, where we did not like the outcome of our meals using the Nuwave oven. Everything I have made on this oven has been perfect. I will say, that cooking times are not as fast as they say, as I do believe I could cook the meals in a coventional oven just as fast, but the quality of the foods (moisture, browning, cripsness, etc) is way better, and the fat just drips onto the pan instead of my meat sitting in it while cooking. I have cooked a huge turkey and chicken, a big roast, etc….always tender and juicy. I just purchased the Nuwave PIC and love it just as much. I say…try it yourself and if you do not like it, return it.
Review by Texas Tinsley February 12, 2013
Well we haven’t even gotten our Nuwave oven yet, so this review is more about the incompetency of the company in general. Well I ordered it on 2-11-13 at about midnight. About 45 minutes later I realized my wife would want the black ones to match her kitchen. So I called to change the order from white to black. The person who answered the phone said they couldn’t help me, but could transfer me to someone who could. They transferred me to a recording telling me to call a different number then it hung up on me. I called that number, and got another recording telling me they were closed, and to call back in the morning. I got off work first thing in the morning and called them. A lady answered, I told her I needed to change the order, she said she’d request it for me, and to call back in 24 hours to make sure everything was corrected. I call back in 24 hours, and the woman I talked to this time tells me that there is no way to tell if my order was updated. She said they have NO communication with the warehouse? What kind of company is this? How do they not know what they sent me? She said the only thing I can do is pay to have them shipped back then pay for them AGAIN to come back to me. So all together I’m supposed to pay shipping 3 times per oven – like $250, because they can’t communicate with each other??? I was going to remodel my whole kitchen and get rid of my stove. I WAS going to do all counter tops with outlets all the way around so my wife could set up 2 Nuwave ovens, and 6 Precision Induction Cooktops, then move them around wherever she needed or put some up for more counter space. I thought it would be a cool modern Kitchen, Now I’m probably going to refuse delivery, and call my credit card company. It’s a shame I’ll never know how these work, because I refuse to do business with a company like this. I mean if they can’t take care of me now why would you expect them to take care of us in the future? I’ll just wait for someone else to come out with something similar, and buy those instead. Thanks for taking the time to read this and good luck. Ohh and one place I reviewed these Someone pointed out that I made the mistake to begin with. That is true, BUT I called them the second they opened, and they didn’t ship it until almost 12 hours later that night.
Review by kathleen December 23, 2012
I bought my NuWave Oven in October 2012. The smell that the dome gives off when heated is so noxious that I no longer cook with it. I was not all that impressed with how food cooks. There is no baking and meat, particulary roasts and chicken take much longer than stated in the manual and did not taste very good. I’m back to using my regular oven.
Review by Renee November 5, 2012
I bought my NuWave several years ago, but never really started using it until May 2012, when I got married… now I LOVE IT! My husband is a skeptic of EVERYTHING and VERY particular about his steaks, but after I convinced him to let me cook a [frozen] steak for him in the NuWave, he could be a salesman for them! You do have to fiddle with it for a little bit to figure out exactly how time, rack height, and temperature to cook different things to get them just right, but otherwise, it’s absolutely fantastic. Unless the unit is genuinely defective, anyone who rated it as ‘junk’ just didn’t give it a chance. I’d recommend these to everyone!
Review by helen August 6, 2012
i bought one for my 3 sisters for last xmas they love it
as do i
Review by Willie Chupcavich July 6, 2012
I love it. I’ve cooked hot dogs, bacon, and hot sausage links and they have come out really well. Sometimes you have to experiment with the cooking times, but once you’ve used it often enough it is really great. I did bacon in the microwave vs. the NuWave and couldn’t tell the difference.
Review by Chris March 11, 2012
I looked forward to using the NUWAVE that was given to me as a gift. However, it didn’t cook my food very well and I found later that the dome contained a dangerous chemical (BPA). I contacted Nuwave regarding the toxin (which is released from the dome when heated). Although I have found in my research that the BPA becomes vaporized (airborne) when heated, a Nuwave representative said it would be safe if the food just didn’t touch the plastic. I’ve only used the Nuwave twice as I don’t want this toxin cooked into my food. Why doesn’t Nuwave make available to us a BPA free dome?!
Review by Thomas January 7, 2012
First new wave I bought was in 2004. It had a infrared light and it died the first time I used it. Sent it back and they paid for return shipping and got my money back. A year ago, my wife purchased a new wave oven and I was a little upset and told her how she had wasted her money. I noticed that the infrared light had been replaced with coils, excellent move. After 15 months of continuous use, I am amazed it keeps going. Our oven and microwave will last forever because we almost never use them. It is tough to keep clean because it is in constant use. What I like the best is that instead of eating soggy food from microwave, we get crispy food. The moment this new wave dies, we will morn its passing long enough to get the next one.
Review by jev October 23, 2011
I use the Nu-wave and it was working ok for about few times then the motor quit working. Light came on but when I adjust the temperature, it will not go up and down. im thinking of trashing it.
Review by Chris July 23, 2011
Does anyone have an actual study of how harmful BPA is, which is in the poly dome of the Nuwave? A Nuwave rep told me that as long as food doesn’t touch the dome, it should be safe. However, isn’t the BPA toxin released into the air surrounding your food? Also, the first thing I cooked was chicken. It came out very poorly even though it wasn’t over-cooked. Thank you for your info.
Review by mary July 23, 2011
GARBAGE
Review by mary July 23, 2011
NOT GOOD JUST ANOTHER PIECE OF JUNK AND WHERE TO STORE IT
Review by diana oneal July 21, 2011
THIS IS PERHAPS THE WORST PRODUCT I’VE EVER PURCHASED.NOT ONLY IS IT OVER PRICED ,IT’S TOO BIG,AND DON’T SAY “WELL IF I DON’T LIKE IT I CAN ALWAYS RETURN IT” THAT WILL COST YOU ANOTHER $100.00.
Review by Gloria C February 12, 2011
I just goy my NuWave oven yesterday and slapped skinless breast chicken in my NuWave and not happy it was not juicy and dry, very disappointed. I will try again today with a small turkey
Review by charlos January 23, 2011
I love my NuWave! I think everyone should own one! lol!
Review by Eric January 12, 2011
The top is plastic not glass as reading the web site would make one believe. If you don’t mind plastic in your food then it’s a great oven.
Review by Cheryl January 4, 2011
I purchased a Nu-wave oven. TV ad shows how fast the cooking was. How tender the chicken & pork roasts were after cooking in the Nu-wave oven. I liked it so much that I’m returning it. I cooked a chicken according to the directions and it took longer than a conventional oven. I then tried a pork roast and had the same problem. Neither one was cooked throgh. I finished both of them in my conventional oven. As for saving time….forget it! It took longer in the Nu-wave oven. For the price, it should cook the foods without my help. I’ll stick with my conventional oven. Thanks but no thanks.
Review by Shawn Lewis December 25, 2010
What do we need to do to get our money back on this trashy device? We followed your instructions in the cook book and quick reference cooking guide to cook a turkey. Turkey was 7.26 lbs, fully thawed, instructions to cook at 180 degrees at 15 min a lb. Simple math puts that at less than 1 1/2 hrs, after four hours and only half done we put it in the oven. Tell us what to do for a full refund. A huge waste of time and money.
Review by C Gurney December 15, 2010
Just got my nuwave and cooked a whole chicken the first night and a meatloaf the second night. so far the nu-wave is 2for2 It cooks fast with nice browning and moist great tasting results
Review by roger w December 10, 2010
I tried pizza according to directions came out like microwave.Cooked small (under three pound , pork roast frozen. Cooked it the time called for, came out still bloody. Thinking seriosly of returning unit .
Review by Michael December 10, 2010
I just received a NuWave as a gift. I unpacked it and looked at it. The plastic dome concerned me and I looked at the box. Made in China. With all of the problems with lead and toxins in products made in China I sure as heck am not going to cook and eat food made in a plastic oven from China. I am surprised that nobody else has noticed this point.
Put it back in the box. If I cant return it I am throwing it away.
Review by Angie November 6, 2010
I love my Nu Wave oven!!! Bought it at a yard sale for only $2 if you even believe that one… and I LOVE IT!!!! We cook with it a couple times a week and just absolutely love it and I’ve had mine since July… new… in the box… and am happy with my purchase… if I’d Have known how much I would like it, I’d have paid the real cost without any complaints!!!
Review by J.P. Baker October 30, 2010
I bought Nuwave Oven to use for Thanksgiving. I thought I would try it out on some different meats earlier this week and everything works great. I am glad that I bought a Nuwave.
Review by Cyndi October 19, 2010
Love it!!!!! It’s one of the few things I’ve ordered that does exactly what it said it would do.
Review by Michelle October 6, 2010
My mother- in- law purchased the NuWave refurbished for me when she purchased hers. I most admit that I was skeptical about how well it will worked. Things seldom work as well as they do on those infomercials. I used it to make hamburgers for lunch today. I must say I was pleasantly surprised! I was already skeptical about coking burgers in an oven on-top of using the NuWave. I must say that it worked really….really well. The burger came out perfectly cooked! Since I used Costco burgers I had to leave them on longer than the guidelines… I am happy with the way it worked. I am looking forward to trying to make ribs and a whole chicken! I have read where some customers have had problems with the dome cracking… I hope that won’t happen!
Review by Irene Staudt September 26, 2010
i tried to order a Nu Wave oven online, when I got to the checkout, I was charged for 2 ovens and an extender rack. Of couse I called to conplain and was told that I had to call back Mon. thr Fri. This product might be all they are saying it is, but because of their shady online ordering scam I called my bank to cancel the order. This is their loss, if I would have liked the oven, I would have ordered some for Christmas presents.
Review by Tina A August 27, 2010
LOVE MY NUWAVE OVEN!!!!!!!!!!!! WANT CRISPIER FOOD, JUST COOK A LITTLE LONGER THAT’S ALL, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by Lou&Tiff August 11, 2010
We are on our second dome because the first one started cracking and pitting badly, the NEW dome does not fit well at all, it’s tight before we start cooking with it but then it loosens up considerably and when it is picked up in order to turn a food item such as chicken over the dome FALLS OFF THE COOKING HEAD_CUSTOMER SERVICE AT NU WAVE IS NON EXISTENT, spoke to someone OFFSHORE twice (two different people who barely spoke English) about this problem and all we got was the runaround excuse that they would get back to us via email which they have not done to date_We are very DISAPPOINTED in Nu Wave’s concern and ability to rectify this DOME PROBLEM_As a result we will not be recommending this product to anyone else !
Review by Darith Yim August 2, 2010
I love my NuWave oven! It’s easy to clean and easy to cook in. Everything comes out nice, tender, and juicy!
Review by Don May 6, 2010
The dome is NOT BPA free. A very toxic chemical is being leached out when cooking….. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by Forrester April 15, 2010
We bought our NuWave in Sept 09. Found out last week that the dome is NOT BPA free. A very toxic chemical is being leached out when cooking….. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by Marianne March 2, 2010
This is the BEST invention since the light bulb. It work fantastic and is easy to clean. I cook everything in my Nu Wave cooker.
Review by Ruth Ann McNeely February 6, 2010
Try it and you will wonder how you ever got along without it! Fast, energy efficient & easy to clean!
Review by Alonzo Beasley February 1, 2010
This is a sweet machine . I cook on my NuWave all the time . I purchased one for my sister.
Review by Diane January 29, 2010
I just got the NuWave this week. Tried a whole chicken and absolutely loved it! I am so excited to try other receipes!!
Review by Ruth Ann McNeely January 24, 2010
WONDERFUL!!! My NuWave oven is compact,energy
efficient,cleans easily and a true delight to use.I
have encouraged everyone I know to get one.
Review by Dabney Hill January 22, 2010
I have used our Nuwave oven since last summer and we use it 3-4 times a week. I love it. Chicken and chops cook fast and are so juicy. I also use it to fix sweet rolls for granddaughter and she loves to watch it cook them. They cook in about 9 minutes and are great. It is super to fix bacon since all the grease is in the bottom. We think it was a great buy and I recommend it to all my friends.
Review by Lashawn January 21, 2010
I have had my new wave for about 9 months and I love it… I love the feature of not having to thaw your food..
Review by ensotovoce January 20, 2010
i’ve had my nu wave oven for over a year now. i cook with it 5 out of 7 days and the other two i’m at a restaurant. i have convinced 4 of my friends and my parents to buy one. everybody loves it. all my meats come out perfect and juicy.
i cooked a 13 pound turkey for t-giving and the breast meat was dripping and the skin was crisp. all the fat was down below. AMAZING!
i have not experienced any of the issues that i have read on this site. give it a try.
Review by CFE January 20, 2010
I bought the NuWave Oven Pro for a family member that is Handicapped.
She doesn’t use it on a regular basis, but enjoys using it.
She loves the fact that she can use it herself, without help from others.
The food is really healthy, moist, and cooks quickly.
She is very happy with it, so that’s good enough for me!
I would recommend it to my friends.
Review by Karen Archambault January 6, 2010
I love my Nuwave oven, I purchased mine at Kohl’s and saved all the shipping costs. It is wonderful.
Review by Linda December 2, 2009
We bought a NuWave oven several years ago from the infomercial and we loved it; it was fast, easy to clean and didn’t heat up the house or splatter grease all over. We liked the fact that the fat drains out into the bottom (if you line it with tin foil, it’s so easy to clean up) We used it every day and never got a skillet out for steaks, hamburgers, hotdogs, brats and even baked potatoes. I only cooked one roast in it and it was okay, but we liked it mainly for the smaller pieces of meat.
Then it started to take longer and longer to cook things so we found a new one in a local store and threw the old one away. Well, the new one didn’t cook fast like the old one did when it was new. Actually I think the one we trashed still cooked better than the new one. I started e-mailing the company and finally they sent me a new head. You know, this one isn’t any better than the last one. My husband saw one of the new infomercials last night and he said they changed the time it’s supposed to take to cook things. When we bought the first one, they said it’ll cook a frozen steak in 6 minutes and it DID. Wonder what they changed and why.
All in all, I still like the oven, but find myself getting the skillet out now when I’m in a hurry. I’m disappointed that it now takes 20 minutes to cook a thick thawed steak.
Review by S Burk November 21, 2009
First impressions…
I got my Nuwave Oven Pro yesterday. My wife was out at a friends house and I just couldn’t wait to try it.
So, I pulled some bacon wrapped filets out of the freezer and proceeded to try it.
My wife and I had bought these steaks on a whim while walking though the store one day. They were reasonably priced and we thought we would give them a try.
I must tell you that we had defrosted some a while back and put them on our regular grill. Defrosting took a day in the refridgerator and it took almost an hour to grill them to a point of medium rare.
The Nuwave oven on the other hand cooked them to a very nice Medium all the way trough in just 34 minutes from frozen. Now these cuts were not the highest quality as we found out from gilling them. I must admit that they came out much better on the Nuwave. The outside was a little more done than I would prefer, but I had the same result on the grill as I had to cook them so long to even get them to medium rare.
I am a bit leary of the fact that so many people talk about the dome cracking and hope I do not experience that. I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
To wrap up, I am impressed so far with this machine. I didn’t give it 5 stars as I have only had it one day and don’t know all I need to know yet. If I get time in the future I will write another review and let you know how it is performing.
Review by Charles August 4, 2009
I purchased a Nuwave Oven less than a year ago, first it cooks very well, BUT, make sure your extender ring fits, mine was too large for my oven. The cyclender glass got foggy in the first month I ha it as I used it almost 2-3 times a week. Today I used it and when I was washing it I noticed it was cracking at the top where you attach he motor.
I keep seeing some folks cooked a frozen chicken in the NuWave Oven, Did you wash that chicken before you froze it? I can see cooking a frozen chicken right out of he wraper from the store. I thaw mine out wash it and then cook it. All in all I really like my Oven and use it frequently.
Review by Sherri March 26, 2009
I bought a NuWave Oven for my RV. I travel full time and my oven had gone out. I love the NuWave oven as far as performance. The customer service is what sucks. So the oven is great but not worth the hassell if you ever have to call them about a problem with the NuWave Oven.
Review by Tanya March 17, 2009
My husband just bought me the NuWave oven and I was pretty sceptical. I put a 3.72 pork roast in there straight out of the freezer and within 3 hours it was cooked just like I baked it in the oven. It was juicy and looked good. It was really moist when we carved it, I was impressed. The only comments that I would say is that you have to turn it up higher than they say otherwise it would cook a long time like a crock pot. I have been putting my food in there the same temp as I would in the oven. The thing I like about it is that it costs less to run than the oven and easier clean up plus you don’t get a hot kitchen. So far I have cooked the roast, bacon and fries. It drips all the fat off so it is a lot healthier eating. I love it so much. I am completely sold on it, I am excited to cook other things in there. It looks nice, fits on the countertop good and you get all the other goodies with it. I also like how you can use your normal baking dishes in there. I am very wary of those info commercials but I am thankful my husband bought it.
Review by Tad C January 20, 2009
I have both the NuWave oven and the other Mr T. oven. The NuWave works much better.
Review by Kelly January 20, 2009
I love my NuWave oven, it’s the NuWave of the future lol!