Mr. Lovenstein

If you have a built in microwave, never buy Thermador appliances.

Microwaves are a solved problem, right? Outside of a few variations everyone has pretty much decided how a microwave should be, yes? Wrong. Thermador microwaves are the stupidest product of any kind I have been unfortunate enough to use in a while.

I assume a lot of people are like me, they think a microwave is a microwave. When I looked at new appliances I dove deep on the fridge, the cooktop, and the oven. Then, after I made my decision, I just got a microwave, dishwasher, and hood to match.

I went to use the stupid thing and holy shit, the beeping, the multiple submenus for standard cooking, the beeping, scrolling through numbers, the beeping, one button push with a flourish of sounds and screen animation just to wake it up then another button push with more sound to get to the first of the submenus, the beeping.

All the posts online begging for an OTA update (because, of course, everything is wifi now even a fucking microwave), people telling you how to open it up and cut the speaker wire so you don't wake every neighbor in a 1/2 mile radius when you want to heat something up at 1am, some people going so far as to put the Thermador handles on a bosch (the same company so you know they're capable of making something that isn't stupid). I never saw any of these because who checks reviews on a microwave? It's a well regarded appliance manufacturer, and it's just a fucking microwave.

Never buy Thermador.