Wouldn’t it be great if rather than just taking up a chunk of space in your kitchen, you could actually rely on your microwave for cooking meals? With inverter technology, you can.

Inverter microwaves use consistent power to heat your food, delivering faster cook times and more even results. Here are the best inverter microwaves.

This Panasonic microwave heats well, is easy to use, and has a useful sensor reheating setting. Here's why it won the top spot in our guide.

For the microwave, it has not. People are not yet allured by the promise of inverter technology, the ingenuity of microwave-specialized cookware, the splendor of strategic defrosting.

How does a microwave’s defrost function work? Before we get into why the microwave’s defrost function kind of sucks, let’s talk about how it works.