Farberware Black FMO11AHTBSJ 1.1 Cu. Ft 1100-Watt Microwave Oven with Smart Sensor Cooking, Inverter Technology, ECO Mode and Blue LED Lighting, Black Stainless Steel

I usually take awhile before writing a review for complex items like major electronics. Now, after nearly two years owning this microwave, I am ready to report on my opinions. I'm sure you are thrilled! Why wouldn't you be?I am a very logical person and like the items I buy to logically designed as well. First. the good things about this product. This microwave is more quiet than most. My previous Panasonic, which died after about 20 years, could be heard from my bedroom on the opposite side of the house, with my door closed. This one is much less annoying in this aspect. It also cooks well. Most frozen dinners can be followed by the package times and turn out well. My Panasonic was much too powerful and I had to reduce suggested times by about 25%.The interior is unusual, being a medium gray color but it's easy to clean. The unit emits like 5 beeps when it finishes unless you open the door, then stops immediately.Where it loses one star for me is in the operation logic. I has one-button time/cook for 1, 2, and 3 minutes and 30 seconds if you just press START. I would have been thrilled had it carried this logic over for 4 through 10 minutes since those numbers (zero for 10) are already there. A lot of frozen meals call for 4 minutes. It would be nice to just press "4" instead of having to locate the "Time Cook" button, then pressing 4-0-0 and then Start. One button instead of five, no contest. You also can't add those one-touch buttons to the current time except for the 30-second Start button.The other thing that really annoys me is that you cannot set a time for cooking something a bit later, like you're doing other cooking on a stove and you want to have the microwave queued up for, say, steaming vegetables. You just can't do it because if you set a time and don't start it, about a minute later, the timer will reset to zero. On the other hand, if you're cooking something and decide to stop before the timer ends, like you often do with popcorn, the time will remain forever unless you clear it. So, if you get up the next morning and press a button, it won't function because it still has time on it. They got this completely backward: It should keep the time time you set forever but reset time that was left on it when you stopped it. See? Logical.If you can live with these two annoyances, this is a fine microwave to own.

Does a very good job in microwaving foods. Helpful cooking buttons are good. You may have to adjust cooking time to less than others with 1100 Watts.

Ok. I’ve used this for about three months and thought it time to write a review based on more than instant reactions. Admittedly, we haven’t had a new counter top microwave since forever, so one has to assume progress has been made, and that that old Sharp microwave has had its day. Nonetheless, this Farberware microwave is really, really good, not just for the money, not just compared to the old Sharp, but objectively in its own right. For us, a quiet unit was nonnegotiable. (We suffered with a Viking over the range microwave, about as quiet as a 747 on takeoff, for years before switching to a GE—and realized we had been suffering needlessly. The old Sharp was clearly failing. Still, it had a wonderful design, with the controls across the top, rather than down the right side. This meant a relatively small box could hold a very large plate. True, the numbers stopped reading. True, the beep eventually stopped beeping. The time setting could no longer we trusted...So after studying reviews and specs like a divinity student trying to Devine the meaning of god, we decided to go with this unit. What a joy: quiet, warms foods up quickly, the ‘soften’ feature really softens, and the automatic reheat feature works fairly well. It has three instant on buttons (1, 2, and 3 minutes, respectively) plus a 30 second on button. So if you need a minute and a half, it’s touch ‘1’, then touch ‘On-30seconds’ and done. Is it perfect? No. We’d wish the display were backlit because reading all those little buttons is challenging. Did I say it was quiet?

Great looking appliance with a small footprint. The sensor technology is great and reheating feature is fantastic. No fussing, checking during reheating. The capacity is a little smaller than my old oven. If I want to cook in a 9 x 11 casserole dish I must remove the turntable ring and manually rotate the dish. This is a minor issue and I can live with it. The other things I find tedious are: the add 30 seconds button must be pushed before a time cooking session is complete and doesn’t stand alone; the use of any presets require a push of the Start button before cooking will start. These are minor issues and I’m slowly becoming acquainted with them as my old appliance didn’t require this action. Overall, this is a great appliance at a great price that arrived in great condition!

I replace a more expensive Panasonic microwave that failed after 1.5 years of use. This Faberware microwave is supposedly 100 W less powerful but it is in fact much faster than the Panasonic. It also heats a lot more evenly. Bonus: this microwave is SO QUIET that sometimes I’m not sure I turned it on. The only thing I’m not crazy about is the 5 loud beeps at the end of the cycle.

So far, so good but as we all know, one measure of the value of an appliance is dependability and I won't be able to evaluate that for quite some time. At this time I would say that this was a great choice.

This replaced a similarly sized and highly rated 1000 watt model than was getting a bit noisy. It is way quieter (better) when running and when beeping. I don't know if it's only because it's 1100 watts instead of 1000 but it cooks much faster than the old one. Popcorn comes out way better with fewer undone kernels and no charring. We especially like the one touch start (that many don't have). Perhaps it also works better because of the inverter feature that is also not common on other models.

I thought the inverter technology was supposed to make the oven heat food more evenly. It doesn't. It has a turntable, too, but a plate of food will have very hot spots and other places where the food is barely warm. It's not worse than my previous Sharp microwave oven, but not better either.

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