This oven has lots of fabulous features on paper. And I appreciate LG for trying to make appliances look modern. It's been working stably after two years. However, there're some annoying things about this oven:
1. When the microwave cycle finishes, it keeps beeping every 30 seconds until you explicitly press CLEAR button. Just opening the oven door won't stop this.
2. The buttons are hard to press. It often doesn't register on the first attempt. You have to carefully press the center of buttons hardly.
3. The microwave fan keeps running for a few minutes after every microwave cycle, even when the oven is not hot at all, like after heating the butter for 10 seconds. This is noisy.
4. There're lots of fancy features on the product page but little details on when to use them. Examples:
- There's very little information about what Steam Cook does and when to use it. The manual only described the steps to use it. It's definitely not the Chinese style steam cooking, and there're very few, if any, recipes for this oven's steam cook.
- The product page mentioned infrared heating, but there's no mention to it in the manual and it's not clear how to take advantage of this.
- The Speed Oven is featured on the product page, but the manual just vaguely mentioned that it's good for roasting meat and baking bread, without deliberating the impact to the food and the difference against regular cooking.
5. The temperature probe can be very inaccurate. I find it consistently undercook food. I stopped using it after using it twice.
6. The manual mentioned the firmware update feature with the phone app, but afaik this is impossible with this oven. I wish they had it so that at lease some of the points mentioned above could be potentially improved.