SHARP YC-PG254AU-S 25 Litre 900W Digital Microwave with 1000W Grill, 10 power levels, ECO Mode, defrost function, LED cavity light - Silver

All very good only downfall is the control buttons are difficult to use , have to press several times to get it to stop 🛑 , or cancel as the symbols are close together takes several attempts !!!

Having bought several sharp microwaves (not all for myself!) I would say they are the best and will buy more when needed.

Quite unfathomable how some reviewers find using the features difficult and why they find it noisy. It’s a microwave, they make noise. I’ve had several different models and this isn’t noisier than any of them

The START button, arguably the most used button on any microwave is buried in a block of 6 other buttons, each of which are printed in a tiny font. The big black knob hides the buttons that are located at the bottom of the user interface. Buy this device if you intend to use it at eye level and have VERY good eyesight. It certainly cooks things very quickly using both the microwave and convection modes. As a designer of user interfaces in a previous life, I would give this a very low grade. It was clearly designed by young engineers with good eyesight.

Wanted something simple - two analogue controls. Easy.

Looks good, heats up better and defrosts evenly, unlike my last turntable microwaves no noisier than any other microwave I have had and you can turn off the bleeps. Its quicker and you don't have the hassle of turntable. Great buy and I would highly recommend!

Sorry to open this review with an insult. But seriously - I don't know if anyone actually tested this thing before settling on the infuriating design choices. We have had our previous Sharp microwave for about 12 years and it has generally been fine - but once it failed I looked at some of the modern offerings rather than the updated version of our old model. I shouldn't have bothered. This product is a massive FAIL. Lets begin:Look and feel and ergonomics - The microwave is not quite ugly - but we had a stainless steel one before and the more I saw this thing looking back at me the more I felt like it was a giant child's toy. In fact it does feel like a children's toy. It is chunky and plastic 'y' feeling and the buttons - oh lord don't get me started on the pressure sensitive 'pads' which are a sorry excuse for buttons. If they actually work when you press them you have really won for the day - the only benefit of these is that they are easy to clean. You have to press 'just right' to get the little indented pressure pad to depress - over time I am sure these will end up with a nail mark. The door opens via a manual grove at the top and bottom and has a very cheap sounding 'thunk' to it. Also somewhat inexplicably the designers though that it would make sense to have the start button and stop buttons at completely different areas of the control panel and separated by an absolutely huge plastic knob.Sounds - Oh my word. First world problems I know but this thing likes to bleep at you LOUDLY. Every time you turn the time knob it beeps - yes every single increment beep beep BEEEP BEEP BEEP - heaven forbid you have to set ten minutes on it. Each of the touch pads also love to beep at you loudly. The designers decided to put in a feature where you can silence the buttons - brilliant idea right? Well it also silences the notification that cooking has stopped!! Oh dear...'Eco Mode' - Well this feature is the most badly thought out thing. So the idea is you can turn the clock off to save energy which is great in principle. But it doesn't turn off automatically you have to press and hold the stop button EVERY time you use it. It then announces the clock has turned off with a loud beep or two again (of course) and will happily prompt the clock back on every time you go to use it again. Because the touch pads are so erratic you have a lovely dance with it every time you want to turn the clock off and then want to throw it out the window. But it gets worse. Say you want to simply turn the clock off once before bed and leave it on the rest of the day (to avoid the 'dance' after each use). Well if you try to do that the microwave has put itself into 'Loc' mode if you leave it for more than about 30 seconds unused. To get out of Loc mode you need to open the door (igniting the internal microwave light) and then close it and put the clock in standby with again a loud couple of beeps. I bet that doing this uses MORE energy than if the clock was simply left on overnight. In fact I bet on it.Pre sets - These are frankly awful. To re-heat a cup the microwave has a preset of 1:30 mins on full power which leaves your coffee or tea like molten lava regardless of how cold it started. The minimum potato mode leaves it hard on the bottom. I didn't bother with the others.Noise - Not a quiet microwave - but at the end has this weird sort of 'whir' coming to a halt as it ends. It sounds like it is already 10 years old.I could go on about this thing. I don't hate Sharp - I used to own one for years and have replaced this with a model more similar to the stainless steel Sharp model with 'proper' buttons we used to have. I wanted to be clever by trying the latest whizzy looking one and got burned. I think Sharp needs to go back to basics with its original designs.I don't like going off on products but this one frankly deserves it - I just couldn't wait to get it out the kitchen and replace with a more handsome model with buttons that work and less ridiculous design ideas.Hope you found this useful.

Needed a new microwave with grill as with my other the turntable stopped turning.This is great as it is a flatbed so is without any turntable. It look great and the microwave part works very well. A bit disappointed on the grill though as you need to be careful using the included rack. Depending on what you are cooking it can burn whatever is on it. Would have been better to have either another lower position for the rack or a high to low setting for the grill. Solved it in part by placing a small oven tray on a cake tin which lowers it by a few inches.