Sharp Half Pint Microwave Ovens

Sharp half pint microwave ovens review

This compact 14" cube fits nicely in dorms rooms, home offices, vacation homes, or city apartments.

Seems like the people in the Sharp consumer electronics understood what modern lifestyle is in need for. For a 600-watt microwave oven, this guy can do popcorns, make warm beverages, prepare microwavable meals and heat leftovers.

For light load cooking, it can cover a quick 2-plate meal within minutes. Just take your impression upon seeing the Sharp R-120DR Half Pint microwave oven and say how very much in vibe this product is to young and busy people. This half pint is fresh, fun and functional.

Product Specifications

	Product Details
Model Capacity Microwave Watts Style Cooking Technology Express Cook Cavity (W x H x D) Acessories	Sharp Half Pint Microwave R-120D 0.5 cu ft 600 W countertop Auto Touch 3 - Compu Cook, Minute Plus and Express defrost 14.38 in. x 14.13 in. x 14.25 in Sharp carousel turntables nearly 11 in.

Product Details

Model

Capacity

Microwave Watts

Style

Cooking Technology

Express Cook

Cavity (W x H x D)

Acessories

Sharp Half Pint Microwave R-120D

0.5 cu ft

600 W

countertop

Auto Touch

3 - Compu Cook, Minute Plus and Express defrost

14.38 in. x 14.13 in. x 14.25 in

Sharp carousel turntables nearly 11 in.

Advantages

Sharp Half Pint Microwave Oven

Serious cooking is for home microwave ovens. But for Sharp R-120DR half-pint microwave oven, the serious cooking capabilities of a regular oven are replaced with quick, portable and convenient cooking features.

For one thing, its compact shape and size is gilded for simple food heating, popcorn cooking and single meal quick cooks. For its seemingly tiny size, it can accommodate a 10-inch dinner plate, making it look like a R2D2.

Features

The microwave has all the functionalities that you would expect in a basic microwave.

Popcorn:
The ever popular popcorn button will let you pop your corns and enjoy a fun snack

Clock / Timer:
This is used to set the clock time and timer settings for timed cooking

Express Defrost:
As the name suggests this will defrost frozen food real quick for you to process it further or just eat it hot and fresh.

CompuCook:
This is the magic button that really creates all the value in this half pint oven. It allows for single meal preparation with automatic preprogrammed settings, which can handle 6 popular foods; from heating your coffee, preparing perfectly lighted popcorn and many others.

Double Quantity:
This is used in combination with the CompuCook feature to increase the cooking times. This would typically be used if you were cooking more than the specified quantity of food in one go.

Time buttons:
There are three buttons (10 minutes, 1 minute, 15 seconds) that can be used in combination of any of the cooking or defrosting modes to set the time for timed cooking.

Now let’s take a look at its convenient features. Its 600-watt output power enables it to handle coffee or tea and single morning to dinner meals.

Cooking with it is a breeze. Its Auto-Touch technology, Compu Cook, Minute Plus and Express Defrost introduce a single button operation in warming snacks and defrosting and cooking your baked favorites such as leftover lasagna, casseroles and baked potatoes.

When all you thought that this compact microwave oven is all about basics, look at it again as it goes beyond basics in offering convenient cooking tools in 7 fun colors as in orange, blue, white, black, purple, green and red; although Sharp has toned down its trendy models and sells it in just the black color.

If you love the colorful half pint unit, you can surely find resellers and used units online.

Limitation of Sharp Half Pint Microwave Ovens

While this is a great microwave unit and complete with all basic functions, depending on the user its very features could become a drawback. Traditionally, when it comes to microwave ovens, the higher the wattage, the better, this is because high wattage features ensures powerful cooking features.

Now with the meager 600-watt power output of Sharp R-120DR, baking simple dishes could take a long while. In addition to long cooking, it may not be as flexible in meeting the demands of other food preparations since it is built for single-plate conveniences.

If you are someone who is living on microwave oven dish recipes, this could not be the best choice for you. Though Sharp half pint microwave is ideal for dorms and apartments, it not ideal for home kitchen applications.

Product Summary

The sleek design of Sharp R-120DR makes it so convenient to fit on any corner, anywhere. It will fit nicely on door rooms, home offices, vacation homes and city apartments.

This subcompact feature even made it the most versatile microwave oven ever. In bringing fresh, functional and compact kitchen solutions to fixing quick snacks and quick meals, it beats the odds of busy and hectic modern living. Bottom line, this cute microwave oven works great on light users, but not on serious cooking.