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1100 Watt GE Stainless Microwave Oven General Electric JES1142SJ Stainless Steel 1100 Watts Microwave Oven This is the second GE Stainless Microwave I have owned in less than a year....

Worst microwave I’ve ever owned General Electric JES1142SJ Stainless Steel 1100 Watts Microwave Oven I bought this as a replacement for an existing microwave whose turntable ha...

This was an attractive purchase at Lowes, $89.98. It is chrome finished but really small inside. I figured, great, more counter space and if it only lasts a couple years that’s $45 per year. Well they have this timed to perfection. It stopped working at 13 months. You can not get any better than that. They have taken the science of warrantees to the limit.

But truthfully I was not that dissapointed. It used to antagonize me that there was no way to turn off the triple beep on this thing. Imagine you are up at 6am trying to warm up a cup of yesterdays coffee and you get a very slow, deliberate, and very loud triple beep. I used to stand right next to it and press stop when it got down to about 5 seconds so I wouldn’t wake up my wife. Even so there would still be one loud unavoidable beep. Doesn’t anyone at GE listen to these things before they put them into production? Why would anyone need three loud beeps. I guess if you were really hearing impaired it would make sense.

I went nuts looking through the owners manual and there is no way to turn it off. I kept thinking the whole year, one of these days I’m going to take it apart and cut the wires to that damn speaker. I never got around to it.

The last microwave we had you could completely turn off the beeps. This was a painful 13 months and I’m glad it’s over.

The funniest part of this is that about one month before it died I found an amazingly new and spotlessly clean Kenmore microwave on the side of the road with a sign taped to it saying “works”. It’s about twice the size of the GE and it’s not chrome but all black. I threw it in the van and kept thinking I’m probably going to need this soon. A few weeks later the GE blew.

Within 10 minutes of the GE biting the big one I had this Kenmore in place and firing up my next cup of coffee. My wife thought I was a genius (an extremely rare moment). I have reminded her of it several times since then.

Now we all love the new one. The beep is so quiet you can barely hear it. I’m sure I could turn the beeps off if I ever get around to downloading the manual. It’s huge inside and we use it more because of that. I didn’t think I would like the all black color but it’s very cool looking and everyone in the family really likes the look. It’s a Kenmore Quicktouch.

I’m not sure which model it is but this has taught me a lesson. If it costs me an extra $30 a year to have a microwave that doesn’t wake everyone in the house up at 6am and have me cringing at each overly loud beep, I will pay it. Or maybe just pick it up on the side of the road.

I’m done with GE. Too bad for them because we are in the market for a range, an oven, and a new fridge.

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