You can spend less than $100 on a countertop microwave—or multiples of that on a larger, more advanced model. Spending more typically gets you more power and convenience features, such as a ...

If you're looking to save money and space, the Commercial Chef Countertop Microwave is the best budget microwave: simple but effective, much like microwave cooking itself. We recently tested two ...

But most microwave ovens have less usable space than advertised, according to our tests: In fact, both over-the-range (OTR) and countertop microwaves have a usable capacity of about 50 percent of ...