Caterlite Commercial Microwave Oven 900W Light Duty
Caterlite Commercial Microwave Oven 900W Light Duty Stainless Steel Appliance
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Coffee / Spice Grinder
| Weight: | 14.1 kg |
| Size: | 281(H)x 483(W)x 396(D)mm |
| Dimensions: | 19.02 x 15.59 x 11.06 cm; 14.1 Kilograms |
| Model: | 3618 |
| Part: | CD399 |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Caterlite |
| Dimensions: | 19.02 x 15.59 x 11.06 cm; 14.1 Kilograms |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Size: | 281(H)x 483(W)x 396(D)mm |
| Volume: | 23 litres |
I like the stainless steel finish. The grill is a bonus. Easy to clean, looks good and works well.
Full stainless steel microwave with grill function, really simple to use and clean but best of all in my opinion is no clock for distraction.
Love it. Smart, stainless steel inside and out. Simple to use. What more could you ask for.
Easy to use .Powerfull and has a good grill feature …not cheap but worth the money.
Really easy to use, seconds to clean and worth every penny.
This replaced a much cheaper Samsung unit which at 20 years old had got rusty and smelt of fish. It is clean and stainless inside and best of all doesn’t need a programmer to know how to use it. I don’t think we’ll ever use the grill but maybe one day we’ll find out why it has that feature.
I bought this microwave to replace an ancient Panasonic one, choosing this particular model because it has stainless steel interior as well as exterior. My old microwave had a complicated keypad control panel with various presets and options whereas this Caterlite one is dial operated with power settings and a timer. There is no delay start or visual countdown but I’ve quickly got used to that. You can’t set it for less than a minute but you can just take the food out after 20 or 30 seconds. There’s an interior light and a grill function too. I’m very pleased with the microwave. Its compact and sits happily on my countertop not taking up too much space. I bought a silicon matt to put under the microwave to stop it moving when the door is opened and this works well. A good basic microwave perfect for my needs.
Easy to use. Only fly is, where is the guarantee, not mentioned anywhere and can’t locate it.
Solidly made, easy to use and keep clean. The combination microwave/grill settings can be very useful (with practice). Have used it successfully for crispy jacket potatoes, fish fingers, sausages. Feels like it could work for a bit longer than the cheapo versions i’ve had previously!
Good, simple all stainless steel microwave. Quite powerful too. Lights up well inside so you can see what’s going on.
Very simple to operate. One ‘ting’ when it’s done -not repetitive beeping. Good range of power options.
Easy to pause cooking by opening door and reclosing as timer does not cancel out when you do this.
-so you do need to manually cancel if if you finish early-
-Worth perhaps keeping a brief list of settings that work for your own particular cooking. Obviously the top does get hot when using the grill.
Overall very pleased so far.
Could do better (minor niggles):
Control knobs feel cheap. If you have a weak grip the timer one may be hard to grasp and twist. ( Add a wide bulldog clip or similar. )
The labelling around them is too small and indistinct, especially the mixed grill settings and you have to keep referring back to the wonderfully simple instructions. The door handle is disappointingly plastic. It is quite noisy in operation. Rattles at times.
Would I recommend it. Yes so far, if you want a simple life.. It just does what it says on the tin. Great!
Easy to use & clean & looks good. However I purchased mine in June 2020 & unfortunately a glass plate section snapped off cleanly. Still working & now turning fully, it didn’t before but I thought that was normal. Also the oven settings seem to be micro only. This happened in September, outwith the guarantee. I am willing to purchase another glass revolving plate but have no way of contacting Caterlite to discuss this. My email is [email protected].
This is stainless inside and out with dual cooking modes. Hate digital ones so this dial up is great. Very powerful and easy to use them grill facility . Easy to clean and smart.
We only use microwaves for heating cooked food and this is a powerful simple microwave
Easy to use and easy to clean. Excellent value for money.
A handle to open and close, not some silly button which pushes the microwave across the kitchen to open it
all stainless and the grill function is great
900w too so quicker than the standard
and it won’t rust and rot out like all the cheap nonsense which will need replacing after a years use
No problems as yet after 6 months use. Only minus is that, given its light weight, it can slip on surfaces if pushed or pulled by mistake. A non slip mat can cure that. Lastly it looks pretty good and fits in well with our other stainless steel kitchen appliances.
All in all a good buy.
The 900W output somehow feels ‘right’, i.e. I am able to judge cooking times much better than with my previous 750W machine, though as ever, practice makes perfect. The noise level when cooking is also totally fine and no different from a standard domestic model.
Easy-clean stainless steel interior and for the price, you can’t go wrong. When this finally dies, we shall be buying another without hesitation.
The shortest time is almost one minute. Not good when you want to warm up something small.
This is born out by the fact that though the printed manual is 68 pages long, only 10 pages are in English and they only take a few minutes to read (many others are like War & Peace), The rest of the book is in 6 other languages.
The only complication is that it is usefully a combination oven, in that it also has a conventional grill built in. What this means in practice is that you set, if you so desire, various different settings (3) and the unit combines different microwave power levels with different grill levels. This, the book says, is useful in maintaining the crispness of various foods, though it doesn’t explain in detail which settings do what. Basically, it uses 30/70% Micro/conventional output on program 1, 49/51% on prog. 2 and 67/33% on prog. 3. Some experimentation needed here ! Most people, like me, will probably just use the five microwave-only levels : Low, Defrost, Med, Med High and High.
It has a light which comes on when it’s running, but not when the door is open, as opening the door stops the oven completely, but importantly, starts it too when the door is shut and the timer dial is set above zero. Therefore, if you open the door before the set time is run then the oven first stops like any other one, but restarts when it is closed again. In practice you return the knob to zero which cancels the timer as you don’t want to run the oven empty and damage the Magnetron (microwave heater unit) – you mustn’t run any microwave oven empty for this reason. No real problems here I add.
Overall, a super, simple unit, that doesn’t need the clock set before use (it doesn’t have one …..) – so useful if the power fails , and, so infuriating on some many other cooking appliances that do need this !!!
It is very powerful and, just, COOKS ……..
This appliance is stainless throughout and feels very sturdy and solid.
The microwave arrived very quickly – I ordered it on Friday and it arrived on Sunday – being left safely with a neighbour, as I was out at the time. It was well packaged in a sturdy box with polystyrene inserts and with a blue protective film which was easy to peel off. Inside the microwave was a metal trivet to allow you to lift up your items so they’re nearer the grill. From what I understand this is NOT to be used when using the microwave or combi functions – only when using the grill.
The dials are super-easy to use and the grill function works well – though I’ve only used it once. There are only two dials – one with time in minutes – going up to a maximum of 30 minutes – and the other dial controlling the temperature and function. The settings are Low, Defrost, Medium, Medium High, High, Grill and Combi 1, 2 and 3.
The combi settings are for grill and microwave – either high microwave power and low grill power combined or vice versa. Whilst I doubt I’ll use these combi settings very much, it’s nice to have them available.
I’ve included a photo of the dials as the one on the amazon website wasn’t close enough to be able to view them clearly – I hope this helps!
The power of the microwave is 900w, which is really very powerful and quicker than my previous microwave – obviously this is a good thing, but takes some getting used to! The noise volume is perhaps a little less than my previous microwaves, being less of a low drone.
In short, this is a great looking, easy-to-use microwave with a large stainless steel interior and useful grill function. The interior dimensions are as stated on the Amazon website, which is plenty big enough for a family of 5!
Great item and will hopefully last a very long time! I’m very pleased and am more than happy to recommend this microwave.