Sharp R372KM Solo Touch Control Microwave, 25 Litre
Sharp R372KM Solo Touch Control Microwave, 25 Litre capacity, 900W, Black
Kitchen Timer
Keep on top of any cooking or baking elsewhere in the kitchen with this handy timer, easy to set and will alert you once the timer has counted down.
Microwave Power Up To 800 W
The more powerful the microwave the quicker it cooks your food. With this, ready meals become almost instant meals.
Microwave Power Settings
Up to 11 microwave power settings, can be combined with 3 cooking stages.
Auto Defrost
Your microwave is pre-programmed so food can be easily defrosted by simply inputting the food’s weight. Alternatively, you can manually choose the defrost time.
| Weight: | 14.8 kg |
| Dimensions: | 16.91 x 20.2 x 12.06 cm; 14.85 Kilograms |
| Brand: | SHARP |
| Model: | R372KM |
| Colour: | Black |
| Dimensions: | 16.91 x 20.2 x 12.06 cm; 14.85 Kilograms |
When I had the Sharp R372SLM Solo Touch Control Microwave, 25 Litre capacity, 900W, Silver .i found it really heavy but I was lucky enough to have someone there to help me so please be mindful of that . so the first time I used it after setting up was really easy and so was the set up it has a re heat tea and coffee button and it worked so nicely ..my son who is 11 found it easy as well I would really recommend this product ! this product is also easy to clean did not find it hard to wipe it clean after my son using i
This replaced our old microwave which was the exact same only black instead of silver! Bought this to match a new black oven! As it’s the same in very pleased with this and it was delivered as said thank you
I liked the fact that.you had to give the driver a code when he delivered it. This made sure it was not just left outside as they had to wait for code rather than rush off and dump it on doorstep. Good idea.
Nice big microwave. I had a Sharp before and found them to be very reliable. This model though I have to press power level before time, whereas old one I could just press minutes and then start. However this model does have one minute quick start, so just have to press start 3 times if you want 3 mins for example. It’s very powerful at 900w I notice difference from 800w.
This is my third Sharps microwave since 1985. I have found them easy to use and they do what they are supposed to do. In these troubled times we are now experiencing the microwave is the ideal way to economize on food production by batch cooking and safely reheating pre prepared home made food cooked to a controlled budget.
Good microwave with clean lines.
Display is quite hard to read as it’s dark.
Cooks efficiently and heats quickly.
Likes: dinner plate fits in, special buttons for heating up a dinner or cup of tea!
I would recommend
This is my second Sharp R372 and replaces the one I bought back in 2015. Having had my first R372for the last six years without any problems I didn’t hesitate in buying again (and was surprised the same model was still available) . Admittedly it’s fairly basic but unless you want a multitude of programmes it does the job and is under 100 so good value for money in my opinion.
These are good microwaves. I have one which I have had a number of years and my girlfriend is now on her second one. Not because it stopped working but because it rusted away on the inside. She uses hers a lot and over time, around 2 years, the inside corroded away. The insides are painted grey and through use the amount of condensation it produces lifts up the paint not only on the bottom but inside on the top until it finally peels of revealing rust underneath. If they just made the inside of stainless steel this would solve the issue. If you buy one you needs to dry it inside each time you use it BUT WHO DOES THAT IN REALITY? She bought a second one because of the ease of use and with the view that 90 was a good deal even if it did only last a few years
This microwave was bought to replace an older version which was smaller. It has a lot of interior space and is very powerful, always needing less time than recommended on products.
However, the user interface idiots have changed this from its predecessor. You now have to select the power level every time you use it. It’s only a single button press so it isn’t the end of the world, but annoying nevertheless.
You can run at full power for a minute by pressing start but this really needed to be 30s.
Wattage – it is 900w – it cooks food even faster than the listed heat up times on labels, e.g. ready mash label said for a 900w, it would take 5and a half mins to cook, this microwave had it piping hot in only 4 minutes.
Large interier – can easily fit a large dinner plate or casserole dish inside. It doesn’t seem that bigger on the worktop. Must be like a tardis 🙂
Fully digital – I didn’t want any knobs or dials and this has none, only buttons.
Second button – this has minute button, 10 seconds and 1 second buttons. I like being able to insert the time manually, down to the last second.
Easy to set up – I’m a technophobe, so I need something simple. I was able to set the time clock and use this machine without opening the instruction manual. Bonus!
Simple to use – this has a 3 step, quick, manual cooking option – simply hit “power”; however many minutes/seconds you need; then hit “start”. This oven also has “quick buttons” for popular foods, e.g. baked potato. I don’t tend to use these much.
Good brand – Sharp is a reputable brand. I specifically chose a Sharp microwave because my last one lasted for over 20 years. It only broke because my son forced the door, not because it stopped working. I’m hoping I will get a good few years out of this one.
Price – not the cheapest out there, but I didn’t want the cheapest: I wanted a microwave that was built to last for years, and that I could use every day without any hassle. I’m confdent this will deliver on that. It’s certainly a pleasure to use.
Delivery – I wanted it quick!
So yes, highly recommend this microwave.
I purchased the black one which looks very smart, you can still see the food through the dark door when the microwaves on (read a review where someone said they couldn’t). Some people have said it’s got a really noisy door when closing? it sounds like a microwave door closing, it’s really not a problem lol.
I can’t be bothered with complaining about lumpy, heavy items, but as asked to do review, the clock keeps gaining in time!
It is really steamy and makes worry that level of moisture will get through the internal holes into the electrics.
It uses more electric as in faster rate than boiling a kettle or using dishwasher, meter clicking away – huh… yikes!
It is 900 watt but has it’s favourite shaped plates / vessels ie some will take extra minutes to cook the food, than others, which is weird as had previous same make, less wattage that seemed to heat same every time, in less minutes.
When first got this was worried as the door to frame appeared to have a graded gap around, you worry about leakage, so not perfectly lined up. I don’t know, 21st century products are never up to scratch.
That said, this is what I wanted in make and size and digital!
The buttons are a bit insensitive but you get used to them and they are easy to use. Tap Start 5 times and off it goes for 5 minutes on full power (and you can add in more minutes as it cooks). It can queue 2 actions but not 3 (the old one did 3) which is a pain as you can’t do: Cook at one level – Pause for set time – Cook at another level, while you watch the TV.
You can set it to cook empty at zero power to dry it out after a steamy session. You can tap the power button during cooking to check that you have set the intended power.
Whoever decided to paint the interior so dark and use a feeble bulb should be shot. You have to turn off the kitchen light to see inside. So install it in a dark corner. The instructions say to leave 10cm all round and above but so long as it can suck in cool air via it’s back right intake I’d take that with a pinch of salt.
It was much, much cheaper than my 30-ish year old one!
This unit was to replace a older, slightly smaller and lower powered Sharpe unit which had served us well for many years.
Functionally it is similar to that unit and does everything we need – which is mainly defrosting and reheating food which we have retrieved from our freezer. We must confess to struggling a bit with the time required to achieve the desired temperature – being a 900W unit as compared to our previous 800w unit we expected it to take less time whereas in practice it takes more with exactly the same size of food portions – but that might just be because it’s capacity is 2.5 rather than the previous 2.2. litres. My wife would have preferred a white rather than metallic finish.
Finish seems good, the black front attractive and the controls clear and intuitive. A nice touch is the ability to set power at 10% intervals, from 10% to 100% by a simple button.
Cooking so far has been successful and food seems to come out nicely hotter than the old Panasonic (though this may have been already starting to fail).
The instruction leaflet is very basic, no recipes, but covering the essentials. However, we recently picked up, from the charity shop, an excellent Sharp microwave cookbook (over 100 pages) from the 1980’s; Sharp no longer seem to publish this, but a copy would be well worth looking out for.
To summarise – we can recommend after a couple of months use.
Sharp is one of the brands currently most highly rated among users and this model has about the highest rating of all models and brands excluding those that also include grills, infra-red ovens or other similar facilities that would probably not be needed or used. Although the colour is described as ‘white’, the most obvious and visible portion is the front which appears almost entirely black when not actually working.
A 25-litre capacity means that it is a fairly large, heavy machine with a 900W power rating and 11 levels of power available at steps of 10% reduction each time allowing it to cope with just about anything. Also, if a product offers timing only for a 650-700W model, you can set it to 70% or 80% power (for equivalent 630 or 720W) and use its published cooking time. It also offers eight different cook and defrost settings with the additional option of numerous manual combinations. It should be sufficient for the ‘typical’ two adults plus two (or possibly, three) family and be able to accept a wide range of different microwave approved cooking utensils on its extra-large turntable (31.5cm, approx 12.5-inches diameter) but with rather little clearance. Containers that overhang the platter by more a few millimeteres will probably be unsuitable. It provides maximum cooking times of just under 100 minutes, in 10 second increments from zero upwards, which offers considerable scope whether cooking, defrosting or warming.
The user interface is clean, relying on a relatively few buttons, is well laid out and it should prove easy to use once familiarity is reached. Its LED clock display is sufficiently large and bright, easy to read and a vast improvement on the non-backlit LCD display we have had to cope with until now. It also offers a 24-hour clock and a kitchen timer function, should you need one.
Although there is a facility to defrost an item according to its weight, there is no direct equivalent when cooking the same item. However, if a reference source or experience shows that a certain food needs x minutes per kilo on a certain setting to cook to your taste, it should not be too difficult to calculate the cooking time for a different weight at the same setting.
The oven has a dark grey interior and typical lighting, so observing how your food looks at any stage of its cooking or defrosting is slightly hampered. The colour of the coating may be technically justified but Sharp have made no additional concession to it. Brighter lighting, perhaps with a second illumination panel could improve it. Better lighting would also benefit the finding and cleaning of any splashes that can sometimes occur, even if food is covered.
Overall, it promises much at a fairly modest price – our now discarded model was more expensive, had a lower power rating and lesser capacity and with fewer features.
In respect of its manual, more than three-quarters of its contents is about safety and precautions and only a small section about its use, set-up etc. This may be rational as use will become almost automatic over time but the safety precautions may be forgotten.
I have had this microwave for a few weeks now and have found it to be well constructed and it looks very good.. It takes my largest dinner plates with ease and I find it much quieter than my old machine. I have used a large 10″ pyrex casserole dish in it with ease.
The instructions received with it I found easy to read and understand, it only took me a couple of attempts, before I was able to operate it without the instructions in front of me. I particularly like the fact that instead of rotating through programmes e.g. P1, P2, P3 as on my last microwave – then having to look up what each programme does, this rotates through 100% power, 90%, 80% etc right down to 10% for slow defrost. I find this much easier to understand and use. The lower the power the slower the cooking time, on 50% power I found it made a beef hotpot/stew that tasted as good as when I use my slow cooker.
2 very little niggles:- I agree with another reviewer that the writing on the control buttons is not always easy to read, particularly in artificial light, so I had to move my kitchen around a little to be able to read them. However as with most kitchen appliances, I now know which buttons to press so this has become less of a problem.
This microwave only beeps at you once when the cooking time has finished. My last one beeped every minute after that, so it was impossible to forget you had items in the microwave. Getting older and with a memory like a sieve, I miss that reminder, however most people would probably not have that problem!!
I recommend this item to anyone looking for a new microwave.
Anyway, after being rather disappointed with the LG we bought to replace ours, we returned to our favoured brand and we just bought this as a housewarming present for our son. It has a nice large internal capacity without being overly huge outside (not exactly The Tardis, but there is no unnecessary waste of space in the construction), and has plenty of settings and power levels as good as any modern machine. It also looks stylish and has a quality feel to it. I can’t vouch for reliability yet, but it looks very good in our son’s new smallish kitchen, very pleased. Good price too.
My only criticism is with the display: (1) if you put the child lock on, you lose the handy clock. I like to see the clock display, but if you use the child lock, you just have a line. Surely a small ‘c’ appearing next to the time would have been possible instead? and (2) Although it’s smart and unobtrusive, the grey on black writing on the control buttons isn’t easy for me to read – if would have been better if the letters could light up when the microwave is in use.
These are minor irritations – it works well and does its job, so I’m pleased with it.