Customer Reviews

RCA RMW741 0.7 Cubic Foot Microwave, Stainless Steel Design

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I've had this microwave for about a year and am moderately happy with it.

Pluses:
- It's quite small, so it fits in a space under the counter that works well in my kitchen. I wasn't able to find many options in this size.
- It's a little more attractive than in the picture. It's shiny stainless steel.
- The door handle is easy to work with and keep clean.

Minuses:
- The door is completely opaque, so you can't see what's going on with your food.
- There's no "minute plus" button, so you have to enter times manually. It's easy (at least for me) to accidentally hit a number twice, so I'll enter 13 minutes instead of 1:30. To change this, you have to stop it and then click on a "reset" button that is a little hard to find. There are no big buttons for simple tasks.
- The 'popcorn' button does not work well at all. My last microwave would cook bagged popcorn to perfection. I could put it in and walk away and it wouldn't burn. With this one, only about 1/3 of the popcorn will pop with the default setting. Adding time hasn't helped that much either. For some reason the bags will often split before the corn pops.
- The rotating dish seems to slip out of its track very easily, causing it to rattle around.

General:
- It beeps about 5 times when it's done. If you don't open the door, it will beep again after a while. And again, and again. I'm on the fence as to whether or not I like this feature.

We bought this microwave because of it size and price.

OMG, its horrible: can't see thru window(?)in door; gets fingerprints just looking at it!;
beeping is LOUD; slides around on countertop; 'touch' buttons are hard to press;
AND WORST OF ALL - will not shut off from cooking (even after pressing stop) if food gets done quicker than expected!!!
AND there is no -800 number anywhere and if u ask a question online, u have to pay 4 it!!
Insanity.
DO NOT BUY RCA MICROWAVES esp this one!!

Bought this one at Office Max on clearance. After a couple of weeks finally set it up at work. It died within one day -- wouldn't heat any longer. Called RCA for service and they wanted me to pay $7 plus the shipping expense to get it to them. Seriously? Love a company that won't stand by its product.