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hey I'm right Chris from Xena and I'm here with the Amana AMC two one six six AAS and this is a countertop microwave that retails for two hundred and nineteen dollars it's got 1200 watts so it's pretty powerful it'll cook a little faster and a little more evenly than microwaves with lower wattages it's also pretty big if you look at it here in the table beside me it's taking up quite a lot of room it is a roomy beast of a microwave it has 1.6 cubic feet inside of it and a 13 inch turntable plenty of room plenty of space for whatever you want to stuff inside of it now looking over the Amana it's got a pretty basic design and doesn't look like a modern microwave if you ask me it's got the stainless steel which is a nice touch but a lot of microwaves have that right now it's a very popular option but it's boxy you know it's big and boring looking it's got the green clock here that just doesn't look like something out of 2013 so I prefer something with a few more modern touches to make it look like a $219 microwave in addition to the basic design it's also a microwave with some pretty basic features you're not gonna find convection cooking or inverter technology it's just kind of a standard microwave it does the same thing as a cheap $80 microwave would do albeit a little bit better and with a little bit more room inside if you take a look at the buttons on the front it's got your standard presets that you'd expect from a microwave it has popcorn and potatoes and pizza and frozen entrees and all of those work pretty well as a basic microwave but again for $219 you wish you had something more something different so this is a weird mix of high-end and basic it's got a high end price but it's sort of basic in terms of features that said it does perform pretty well we thought the popcorn preset in particular was great you put a bag of popcorn in this thing and hit the preset button it'll pop it in 90 seconds flat to perfection we tested this again and again with the standard sized bag of popcorn and every time it left less kernels unpopped it didn't burn or scorch any of them and it did it really fast did it faster than other microwaves that we tested so all in all a great preset if you love movie night or popcorn in general this is the microwave for you the other presets were - but they have a few flaws the potato preset for instance only cooks by potato you can took one potato you can pick two potatoes but you can't cook by ounces so if you have a big potato it might under cook if you have a small potato it might overcook keep in mind this is a high wattage microwave and it's gonna cook things just a little bit faster than you would expect and some of the presets don't seem to know this the frozen entree preset for instance cook things at the full length of time and that leads to a slightly overcooked frozen entree but their lasagna that we tried this cheese was just a little bit disintegrated and too well done and we didn't like that oh this is a good machine and it's certainly better than the $40 Craigslist microwave that I have in my kitchen but I wouldn't pay 219 dollars for it if you're looking to upgrade and looking to spend that kind of money I think you can do a lot better for seeing it I'm right Chris you