Nostalgia Retro Compact Countertop Microwave Oven - 0.7 Cu. Ft. - 700-Watts with LED Digital Display - Child Lock - Easy Clean Interior - Black

I bought one of these microwaves in approximately 2011 to replace a really huge one I'd bought way back when microwaves were just getting popular around 1985. The big one worked great but I just had to replace it with something more compact when I moved to a house with a smaller kitchen, so I bought this one in 2011. It gave me perfect service till my century-old house in Detroit finally needed major electrical work. Something went wrong--a power surge or something--and it was fatal to the microwave, so after the electricians charged me an arm and a leg for new electrical service--new wiring and grounding, etc. I had to replace the microwave because of the damage it suffered because of low voltage (or something like that.)Fortunately I found the exact same model at Amazon, and here it is in my kitchen looking new--just as good and even better, since it's brand new. I consider the old (2011) one to have given me enough service (about 14 years of reliable daily use) for it to be retired and replaced with a new copy of the same model.The feature I like best about it is the "express" key. You put your food into it, close the door, and you already know how long you want it to run and the power level. To reheat a cup of tepid coffee, it's a minute on high. So you push the "express key" twice and the "power" key once and voila. If the coffee cup is only lukewarm and not cold, you push "express key" just once and the power key once and voila. You get used to that and you do it without thinking, and your kitchen experience is quick and automatic.If I'm thawing a container of my good chili mac (chili with cooked pasta added) I know exactly how long I want to zap it and at what heat level. Three taps on the "power" key, twist the timer knob to about six minutes and voila. Hot chili mac for lunch.This is an example of how important a "new" appliance becomes when its usefulness is realized. What would we do without internet? Personally I couldn't live without it. Of course the refrigerator, introduced around 1920, became "a kitchen essential" immediately--"spoiled food" became nothing but an ugly, dangerous memory. Other appliances that soon followed and became instant essentials--the electric toasterr, and then the electric mixer, the electric coffee maker, and then the electric frying pan in the 1950s--one of my favorites.And finally the microwave. And this Nostalgia Electric model is dynamite! It's a cool-looking "retro-style" addition to the kitchen counter--compact enough not to take up too much space--and does perfect work for me every day just as the first one did for 14 years.So do I like this microwave? Uh...yeah, I guess I do.

I bought this microwave to replace my old ‘dead’ small microwave. Read the reviews as I normally do, before deciding to purchase. It checked all the boxes for my requirements: door handle, wattage power, physical size, choice of heating options, and better than average customer reviews. Then when I actually used it, I found that it exceeded my expectations. Ecstatic-wise - I chose “yellow”, which is a warm butter yellow color, the little bit of chrome adds to its unique look, and I’m not a retro-look person, but it looks charming. I found that there’s no lack in special functions(which are described on the webpage). I love the 30 second button, but there’s also a single button that you can use to start a 1 minute timer, which you can increase or decrease the time while it’s cooking. It’s way quieter than my old microwave with a sturdy feel and sound when opening and closing the door. It may be a bit more in cost than other unit but I feel the extra bucks were worth it.

I love the way this thing looks on my kitchen counter! So retro. It takes a minute to figure out the particulars of operating this microwave, but once you do, you won't want to go back to using buttons instead of that one big knob. Once you get used to it, it's super easy to dial in your power settings, cook times, etc. It really does seem a bit simpler and more *elegant*.On the downside, it is pretty small. You won't be doing the Thanksgiving Day turkey in this thing. Also, the only feature I really *hate* is that you MUST push the END button before the unit will open after cooking. When I have guests over, they wind up practically ripping the hinges off before they figure out this "feature." It really seems dumber than a box of rocks to me. Other than that one small issue, I totally love this cute little microwave.

Cute little microwave. I bought one for my office since the singular break room microwave has a line daily.It does what you'd expext, food gets hot. The styling is purely cosmetic. The "oval window" is really a rectangular window with a clever covering (you can tell from the inside).It does come with a safety feature activated. After cooking, you need to press cancel to open the door. I disabled that pretty quickly. There's a 3-button combo to enable/disable the feature.-Looks like the photos, coworkers think it's cool.-At 800 watts, it's a bit more powerful than many small (700 watt) microwaves.-No complaints so far.

Very cute and stylish but has a mind of its own. I've often put food in the microwave for a set time (like a minute, for example) and left the room for about 30 seconds, smelled burning, and came back to see that the time on the microwave was going haywire and was increasing instead of decreasing and who knows what the power level reset to. It's happened to me multiple times so now I just don't leave the microwave unattended. But when it doesn't do that it gets the job done. Please also note that with this microwave you sacrifice function for style because it has a lot of features, but the buttons to get to them aren't intuitive and you would have no way of knowing what they are without referring to the instruction manual. (It's not like other microwaves where things are clearly labeled.) So I usually just settle for the 1 minute express setting and then turn the knob to whatever time I want it to be.