Amy—June 22, 2024
I love this microwave! It is huge! I can fit an entire 13×9 lasagna dish inside and it doesn't hit the sides! It makes a dinner plate look like a sandwich plate. The instruction manual is super helpful for navigating all the features and it even came with a little cook book with recipes. I highly recommend referring to the manual because it is a large microwave it can arc and become damaged if used improperly. For instance, you need to turn down the power level when heating small dishes. Things will get hotter than you think in just a few seconds. The done alarm is quite and so is the microwave when in use. It heats really well. The buttons are easy to read if you are close to it with light, however the keypad is black and not back lit so it's not ideal for using in an room not well lit. It is very sturdy and takes up a lot of space but it is stable and wont tip forward. It includes child locks to prevent small kids from using it but you have the option to turn it on and off. I have noticed it dose attract dust to the door from static. Read more
Melissa B—August 1, 2018
Note: I'm a former Electronics R&D Technician - ASET. We just got this two days ago and our old Sharp Carousel microwave oven, which had lasted about 15 years, had died last week, so I set it up the same day. I love it! It's intuitive to use, just like the old one was. I ordered this particular model because of the numerical key pad, which is like our old one. Some of the newer ones have a dial, where you dial up the time, and that sounded like a hassle. With the numerical keypad, I can just enter 245 and Start, and it will cook at full power for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Very nice. https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_wr_but_top?ie=UTF8&channel=glance-detail&asin=B01DEWZWGC But this new one has something special. That "Inverter" technology. At first, I didn't understand what it meant. Yes, from my background, I knew what inverters are, but it seemed to have nothing to do with what this oven does. So here's what I've learned: In my old oven - EVEN THOUGH it had a turntable - I would cook something like a frozen dinner, that had maybe a 4" diameter piece of chicken in it. It would come out with the end of the piece rubbery, and the rest cooked ok. Sometimes it did that on rice too. Or sometimes I would cook something and part of the dish would be hot, and part cool. Long story short: This oven doesn't do that! My frozen dinners have uniform cooking, with no rubbery stuff and everything is a nice even hot meal! It's like a well cooked restaurant meal! How does it do that? The old oven technology - even though it has the "carousel", which helped some - would cook with the microwave power either all on, or all off. So if I set it to warm something up for 3 minutes on a power of 5 ( 50% power ), it would cycle the full 100% power on and off, 50% of the time, over that 3 minutes. But what THIS "Inverter" technology seems to do, is keep the microwave power actually AT 50% for the entire 3 minutes. So it isn't slamming the food with either all or nothing. It's a nice even cooking! I love the difference! The only thing I might have done differently is not to name it "Inverter", which doesn't make sense to me. I might have called it "Proportional Power" or "Variable Power", or something like that. But what the heck. It's the results that count and I love the results! Very happy with this! 8-29-18 Update: I just heated 2 cups of water to a boil, in a pyrex cup, for making tea. But I forgot about it. I came back 15 minutes later and realized that I have to heat it again. But instead of coming to a boil, it exploded, spraying HALF of it all over the inside of the oven! I don't know how to reach the seller, but if they can contact me, and explain this, I can remove this part and go back to the good review again. Read more
Dr. Jay—June 13, 2021
This microwave works extremely well and has a couple pitfalls as well. Pros 1) Inverter feature does what is promised. The middle/center of any cooked or reheated foods is as hot as the perimeter almost always. I’m especially impressed with ability this has to accomplish this result with frozen foods. 2) I rarely if ever overcook or burn popcorn. The popcorn setting works with a sensor and it does a great job. 3) Works well for melting items such as butter. It did take a few tries to figure out best way, though. I now know Power Level 2 and 42 seconds melts two tablespoons of butter perfectly. No exploding. 4) Reheat sensor works very well. I tend to forget that I have something in Microwave when I’m working on a meal. This reheat sensor saves the day. 5) The auto cook feature for heating soups or making baked potatoes is awesome. Sensor works well so items are usually cooked well. Not over or under done. 6) inside is very spacious. Rarely do I have a casserole dish that’s too large to allow the turntable to keep spinning. 7) inside is relatively easy to clean. I usually soak some paper towels with dish soap, pop it in the microwave and heat for 30-45 seconds. This really loosens up hard stains. Wipes off easily with this trick. 8) The “keep warm” feature is really the bomb! Forget the need for a fancy schmantsy oven warming drawer. This does the trick just fine! 9) Defrost feature is excellent with the inverter technology. I find meats don’t start to cook on the edges or leave the center rock solid, as often as I’d have with a standard microwave Cons: 1) The auto cook feature relies on 1-14 and unfortunately this requires you to remember what 1 or 3 or 7 does. Unless you post a list in a cabinet door as I finally did that “5” is for potatoes, etc. 2) You really need to prepare yourself for the extra heating power this brings. Don’t recommend keeping Tupperware-type lids sealed on bowls, etc when using this microwave. More than once, we have been scared of all our daylights when a lid explodes off a dish. And that can get messy. 3) The exterior door could be made of thicker plastic. I find it to be a tad flimsy but not awful or overtly cheap, either. I hope this review is helpful to those making a purchase decision. While I realize this microwave is less than perfect, for the price paid I’m very satisfied. I also wrote this review after owning this for a while, so I could assuredly say this is a reliable machine, at a great value, for what it promises to do! Read more
