Farberware FMWO11AHTBKB 1.1 Cu. Ft. Stainless Steel Countertop Microwave Oven

Update:I was able to deactivate the child-safety lock feature.Original Review:I literally just got it today and I used it once for 30 seconds just by hitting the start button so I can't give a detailed review about its quality or longevity. However it looks really nice. It was easy to just get out put on the counter and plug in. I do need to get used to the new regulations on these microwaves where they are ridiculously forcing these companies to put a safety feature that you can't open the door unless you trigger the unlock.. ridiculous. I totally had forgot about it and I darn near broke the door trying to get it open (I exaggerate but you get the point). I do believe that there's a way to turn it off that you don't have to worry about that feature... But I haven't tried it yet. I think it tells you how in a sticker that's on top of the microwave. My food was heating very nicely even for that 30- second run. It's a good size if you're limited on space. You can definitely get a smaller one that's better for dorms and studios. I'm used to having a much larger full size microwave so this is a downgrade for me. But being in a one bedroom apartment I also need to be mindful of my counter space. But this allows me enough space to do what I typically would use a microwave for. Mostly heating up bowls or plates of food. It's not like I'm sticking an entire turkey in the thing lol.It's a brand that I trust. And it looks beautiful. It looks very high quality.Should anything change I will try to amend this review; but, for now, I have no reason not to give it five stars.

My over the range unit died and I needed something immediately and bought this countertop model. It really is 1,000 watts and makes me realize my range unit was underperforming. The instructions on most frozen foods are finally accurate and I'm no longer having to add extra time to everything. I like the neutral white LED light (not yellow) that accurately depicts the look of the food while cooking. The lock feature is great if you have small kids in your household that could reach or climb onto the countertop suddenly while you're busy cooking. I could see this as the perfect microwave for it's price point for apartments and dorms as well.

My microwave that I had what seemed like forever died so I decided to go with this one! It was a good choice I really like it! I wish my old microwave had died sooner! I would choice this microwave again and if you are looking for another microwave this Faberware microwave is a good choice!

First of all, this Farberware microwave oven is Farberware only in name/branding, which Farberware licenses for the purpose to Englewood Marketing, which gets the ovens made mostly in China, and then markets, sells, and warrantees them. It’s not really up to Farberware traditional standards, but still probably among the best in a large, really crummy field of available microwaves.This oven comes in 4 or 5 different “colors;” mine is “stainless steel,” and calling that the “color” is pretty accurate, as there’s a thin veneer of what probably is really stainless on/around the front face of the oven, and that’s it, that’s about all the stainless on or in this oven, ‘most everything else is plastic and cheap, painted steel. The very first bullet point of the product description falsely says, “Stainless Steel exterior and Stainless Steel interior,” but that’s just a big, bad lie. (It’s generally easy to tell, as a magnet isn’t attracted to stainless - and stainless is almost never painted or coated, ‘cause it’s fine without.) Nonetheless, from the front, it actually looks good, handsome. From the top and sides it looks like what it is, plastic and cheap painted steel. But still it’s probably about as good or better as any other at the price.(There is another available color, “copper,” which is also handsome, but, ironically, reminds me very much of Revere Ware cooking pots, Farberware’s long-time traditional rival.)This oven consumes 1500 watts electrical power, by actual measure, same as advertised. I haven’t yet bothered to measure/test the microwave radiative power delivered into the cooking chamber, to see if it matches the advertised 1000 watts. (The difference, the missing 500 watts, is lost in the process of converting from electrical power to microwave.)This oven, so far for us, cooks well and evenly enough. There are a lot of reviewers here reporting various hard, early failures with this oven, but so far at least we’ve been lucky, ours works. Time will tell.Reduced power levels, e.g. 50%, as/when requested by the user, are achieved, not by actually running at 50% power, but by cycling between full on and off at somewhere around 10 second intervals with a 50% (or whatever) duty cycle. (Do all microwave ovens work this way, is it too hard to really “dim” the microwave generator?) I suppose this is mostly okay, but if you want say 50% power for a short period like 10 seconds, perhaps to soften a small amount of butter, you’re quite out of luck.The power cord is 3 feet long - rather short, too short for our situation, we’re forced to get and use an extension cord. Our previous microwave cord was 4-1/2 feet, which worked perfectly by itself.The oven’s operational noise is a bit loud, certainly a bit louder than our previous microwave.The oven’s audio beep signaling sound is produced on way too many occasions; and way too many beeps for less than no possible purpose - like it’s beeping to notify you at the end of a cooking cycle - which is pretty ridiculous in the first place, as the oven is noisy enough in operation that you’d have to be deaf not to hear it stop - and you’ve opened the door and it obviously knows that too but still continues to beep regardless; and it (the beeping, still) is too loud; and is especially sorely lacking a way to just turn the whole darn beeper off (i.e. *OFF*). A super nasty, irritating fault in my view, believing firmly that machines should be seen but not heard. Especially egregious since the makers of this oven invested so much in hardware and firmware for cheesy gimmicks like dedicated Pizza and dog-food buttons, but couldn’t be bothered to simply add a small bit of firmware to allow the owner/user of the oven to tell it to just be quiet, do not beep at me!Occasionally this oven requires two or more presses of a button before it registers. This is probably just some flakiness in the (always cheap) membrane button switches, but might also be a bug in the firmware, I haven’t lived with this oven for long enough to know which yet.The oven interior light is needlessly ridiculously dim; and the oven interior surface is needlessly dark, medium-dark grey (could as easily and better been lighter-colored); and visibility through its front-door window is very poor (heavily obscured by some kind of presumably protective masking, but also needlessly dark); so overall visibility of whatever’s inside is triply-needlessly extremely poor. My mate sarcastically called it “theatrical.” I call it nearly useless, almost impossible to see into. They could just as easily install a light bulb with 10 times the light output.The Instruction Manual is written in rather broken english, presumably by a Chinese, sometimes understandable, but often not. Fortunately the oven is not so complicated that you can’t generally bumble around and figure it out.Customer service - by Englewood Marketing, in Green Bay, WI USA - is remarkably quick, nice, knowledgeable and helpful, at least for answering operational questions. Didn’t try ‘em on any more substantial matters.The real, actual weight of this oven, including the turntable, excluding all the packaging, is 29lbs, 14ozs., i.e. 2oz’s. under 30lbs. The Instruction Manual says the “Net Weight” is “Approx 31.0Lbs” - but I’m pretty certain that’s just not currently accurate, over by a pound. Given that they specified the ostensible weight down to the tenth of a pound, I’d guess that their scale is accurate but that they have lightened/cheapened the oven by “approx.” a pound since they earlier put it into production and weighed it. And this oven’s weight is perhaps a little bit light in the field of similarly priced ovens. This might be somewhat the cause of the weight of this particular oven being so rarely noted - and so all over the map, anywhere from 24 to 36lbs., when it is mentioned.The warranty on this oven is nominally for 1 year - but, like pretty much all current microwave warranties, effectively worthless by the time you get done navigating its terms and conditions. In almost any case of a problem, you’d be better off just biting the bullet and getting another oven.So why, out of the hundreds of microwave ovens available, did we get this one? Because it appears to me that they are all pretty crummy, badly flawed, a number of them even severe fire hazards; of those that will fit our strictly constrained space, this Farberware seemed and still seems to be the most-capable/least-awful, at pretty much any price.If I were rating on an absolute scale, considering this Farberware oven’s many faults, I would give it only 3 stars. But, considering the large field of its mediocre competitors, grading somewhat on a curve, I’ll give it 4 stars for now.

This is nice and roomy inside. Is powerful. The child lock is annoying, but I understand that all of them come that way now. I think you can figure out how to disconnect it if you don’t like it. Other than that it does what I need and I’m satisfied with it.

The microwave is great. Only issue is that it was delivered by postal services instead of UPS. My mail person is lazy and did not try to deliver and just put a notice to go to post office to pick up. Hmmmm. I expected it to be delivered but mail person didn't try to deliver. thankfully my grandson went to get for me he had to stand in line to pick up. Not sure why it didn't come to my house.

East set up and easy instructions. Easy to follow instructions and even has lock feature if you have kids. Sharp appearance and performance makes it a hit with me