Sharp R530ES

Pros: 1200 watts, sensor cooking, sensor defrosting, sensor reheating

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Powerful 1200 watt full sized microwave with excellent sensor cooking features.

Review: I've been extremely happy with my Sharp R-530ES Microwave. It is powerful (1200 watts) and packed with features that actually work as advertised. Some of the features that I like and/or use are as follows: Powerful: With this 1200 watt ...

Pros: May features and tons of power

Cons: Can't pop a decent bag of popcorn :(

The Bottom Line: If you have a large family and you use your microwave a lot get this one.

Review: I bought this microwave as a Christmas gift for the family. The old one was on it's last legs and was not all that powerful to begin with. This is a nice machine it has a sensor that knows when the food is hot and ready. It also has some nice ...

Pros: Easy start button, easy to clean

Cons: sticky door, defrosting is tedious

The Bottom Line: Ok Microwave and I don't have many problems with it. Has not broken down/though some features could be better.

Review: I have the Sharp Carousel Microwave which I received as a gift for Christmas from my Mom/Dad. It's Black, has a spinning interior plate, is 2 Cu FT. and 1200 watts. It does not have a convection oven which personally is not important to me, but may be to ...

Pros: Nice asthetics, powerful.

Cons: Questionable durability and safe guards from malfunction.

Review: Normally, I wouldn't bother writing this type of review, but after reading one of the other four reviews regarding their Sharp R-530ES turning chicken nuggets to cinders, I felt compelled to reinforce what happened to them. My wife put a single medium ...

Pros: high wattage, fast cooking

Cons: unit timer quit working, unit continued to cook and nearly caught house on fire

Review: We were given this microwave two years ago by my parents. They had it a year before giving it to us-they were downsizing and had spent good money on a 'nice' unit. Well, in September the display went cockeyed and pixilated. We could still read it and ...

Pros: looks good

Cons: breaks down a lot!

Review: I bought this microwave. It broke down in a little over a year, so I bought another one. The second one broke again in a little over a year. I paid $150.00 to get it fixed, and now 11 months later, it is broken again. Don't ...

Pros: Very powerful and heats food up fast

Cons: Some type of defect in product and Sharp will not take responsibility

Review: I never write reviews, but I found the same problem with this microwave as in the other comments. We were cooking a frozen dinner on a fixed time, the microwave kept running and our house filled up with smoke. We called Sharp and they sent a technician ...