Breville Quick Touch BMO735 Questions & Answers

Hi Deb, I had a look at mine and unfortunately, I couldn’t find any opening where you can remove the light bulb. You might have to take it to a tech guy to have a look at it. It looks as if you’ll have to remove the outside cover of the microwave to get in the light bulb area.

Thanks Red Patrick.

I have owned one for close to 3 years, I did not know that the buttons were supposed to illuminate. The printed letters on my start button has been rubbed off a bit from regular use and there's nothing except metal underneath. Also, the screen doesn't light up unless you open the door which then jumps to the timer. It's annoying to be honest, but just turn the light on when you are using it maybe?

The lights that surround the three 'smart' buttons only illuminate when you select them, to let you know they are being used. When the microwave is not being used, after five minutes it goes into powersave mode and all the lights will go off. As soon as you start to use it again (eg open/close the door, turn the knob, etc) the display backlight will go on. If you want the display backlight to stay on so you can see the clock at night, then you need to enable the child lock (https://www.manualslib.com/manual/862810/Breville-Quick-Touch-Bmo735.html?page=17).

It does not have a crisp mode (this function usually means the oven also has some sort of electric element making it a kind of hybrid microwave/normal oven). You can however get special trays that are designed to crisp food like bacon in any microwave oven. Personally I have never used one so I do not know how effective they may be.

The simple answer is to use the "smart cook rice" setting. This cooks the rice initially at 100% power then reduces the power to 50%. Ratio is 2:3 rice:water eg 200gm rice and 300ml water. Put in a bowl with a vented lid, select 'smart cook rice' and dial in the amount of rice to be cooked. When it's finished, leave the lid/cover on for five mins before serving/eating.

Now the first few times you use it, it might not be perfect. Once you've tweaked it to the amount and type of rice you normally buy (eg not all rice is the same, so you may need a little more or less water, or might need an extra 30 seconds cooking) then you should be good to go. If you find it's being overcooked, add a little more rice initially.

ninkasi, that's what I've been using and doing. Would really love to do it manually and control it myself though. The smart cook is a handy setting but sometimes I'd just like to tweak the settings manually. Seems it's not an optionn on this machine which is a shame, I did ask when purchasing annd the guy said I could do it, but apparently he may have been mistaken. I probably would have gone for something else if I'd know. Thannks for your reply annyway.

Yeah - can't manually program power setting changes. I understand the desire to tweak things, then again in doing so with rice or cakes I usually muck things up. ;-) FWIW I actually use a dedicated rice cooker - as much as the microwave is great, the rice cooker is so much better. Recently I got a Philips 'Grain Master' (one of those things with 'fuzzy logic' so it adapts the cooking based on the rice itself so allows for different humidity etc). Simply brilliant.

My Breville Quick Touch isn't heating either - it's sounds like it's working (spins, light & timer works) but the food is still cold. any ideas??

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