General Electric XL1800 1100 Watts Convection / Microwave Oven

Pros: amazing looks, well designed, great features, warms up food quickly

Cons: warming rack is garbage

The Bottom Line: I would recommend the GE Spacemaker because it allows for quick warming up of food and looks great in any kitchen.

Review: I have become an expert at buying kitchen appliances. Really, I have! When I lived in Upstate New York, my wife and I bought a new kitchen. We also helped my aunt select her kitchen appliances at her new house. And now, we just bought a new kitchen for ...

Pros: Two shelves are great for re-warming food. Attractive design.

Cons: SPARKING FROM SHELVES RESULTED IN THREE SERVICE CALLS TO FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM

The Bottom Line: I'd recommend this to everyone. It has more options than any other microwave we've seen. It's easy to use and attractive.

Review: (Our GE XL 1800 looks slighter different than the one pictured but is definitely an XL 1800 with same wattage - we triple checked that. However, the corners on the window are slightly different). I noticed that one of the other reviewers pointed out ...

Pros: Nice selection of options, clean design

Cons: The display pad always has finger prints on it.

The Bottom Line: Buy it. It looks great, outperforms most of it's competitors and will make your neighbors jealous.

Review: I truly love this microwave. It's big, bold and powerful enough to dim my lights upon startup. It coordinates well in my stainless kitchen which actually is a blend of appliance brands that all feature the same aesthetically-pleasing sleek, curving ...

Pros: feature-rich; powerful; pretty; easy to keep clean

Cons: apparently the magnetron could bite it any time; lots of beeping

The Bottom Line: It's no work of art, but it blends in with the rest of the kitchen and provides a great microwaving experience

Review: I did very little of the planning that turned the sad, original-equipment 1960s kitchen (complete with small, pink, light-it-yourself oven!) into the glamorous, stainless, granite-rich Kitchen of Tomorrow (KoT). I did, however, strongly request ...

Pros: Well, I guess it looks nice.

Cons: Wastes Power. Doesn't Cook Food Evenly AT ALL.

The Bottom Line: To heat quickly, it must heat evenly. This units is slow and troublesome.

Review: We had 3 microwaves in our house last month : a 1990 GE spacemaker microwave, a tabletop 1998 Panasonic Genius Premier 1000 watt microwave, and our new XL 1800 above-the-stove microwave. The 1990 GE Spacemaker (above the stove) was small and weak. We ...

Pros: Easy to use, nice features, works great (for a while).

Cons: For me it only lasted 2 years.

The Bottom Line: This is a great product and will meet all of your expectations as long as you don't expect it to last too long.

Review: I never thought much about microwaves until recently. To me, a microwave is something to simply warm up my left over pizza or to quickly heat a can of ravioli for the kids. The only things I cared about in a microwave is that it worked and it had a ...

Pros: Very pretty microwave

Cons: BREAKS AND BREAKS AND BREAKS!!!!!

The Bottom Line: NO WAY. Can't recommend somthing that costs a third of the purchase price to repair and for terrible customer service.

Review: I have had two of these microwaves. The first by uninformed choice and the second after purchasing another house with it already installed. BOTH had the same problem. The first gave up the magnetron in the first six months (this means that it won't ...

Pros: nice style, big oven, lots of features

Cons: Features do not work as advertised. Customer service is poor

The Bottom Line: Avoid it, doesnt work as much as it works, customer service is very poor. Does not work as advertised.

Review: looks beautiful, large capacity, many features and it is nice to have the second oven for large parties or small dishes to not heat up the house. It would be great if it worked. I bought it slightly over one year ago for $650.00 and the repairman has ...

Pros: Looks good, lots of features

Cons: unreliable. Many, Many others with same problem: Magnetron!

Review: Mine lasted only 2 years before it stopped heating and smelled like fire. I called customer service and they told me it has a 10 yr warranty on the magnetron. The problem is that it will cost me $70 to find out if that is the problem and if it is, it ...

Pros: pretty looking junk

Cons: Junk, no longer works, basically it blew up, can't get help from GE customer service.

Review: Year and half old used six months. Stove top light exploded and micro is now dead. Worried about a potential fire. GE service will charge 100. to diagnose and fix additional cost of labor and parts. Help GE is selling dangerous junk ...