Best CounterTop Microwave Review – Top 5 Hottest List for Jan. 2019 When microwave ovens were first introduced into the consumer marketplace, they were a novelty – and they were large and expensive. An oven that can cook or heat things up in seconds rather than half-an-hour or more? Amazing – as long as you were willing to pay more than a thousand dollars for a huge microwave that seemingly took up a quarter of the kitchen and did little more than turn on and off. Today, of course, it would be hard to find many homes, apartments or college dorms without a microwave. You can pick one up at almost any drugstore for $25, and it will do a lot more than those rudimentary ovens. If you want to spend more than a thousand dollars, naturally, you still can; those models will be built-in ones, though, and will do everything but walk the dog and empty the garbage. Please find our detailed analysis, buying guide and test results of all the best countertop microwave ovens after the ...