Breville Quick Touch Questions & Answers

Nobody? Is there a way to RESET it? As in pushing certain buttons in a sequence? My guess is that it just needs to be rest. Unplugging it did not help.

This forum is pretty useless I guess. Does anyone from Breville read this any more?

you cant as far as i am aware, its the only thing i disliked about it.

Yes, it's meant to be intelligent and it's pretty good- if you press it twice, it just goes for 1min. press it three times, goes for 1:30. If you turn it slowly it goes by 5 or even 1 second intervals. Turn it fast and it's meant to go up/down by minutes, for example. But it's a bit fiddly and sometimes even when you're turning it slowly, it'll suddenly leap eg from 0:45 to 7:30.

Hi Richard,
If you don't mind feel intimated opening a microwave, then it will most likely be one of the switches that need replacing.
Here's a YouTube link (not Breville but just for your reference of what's involved) for you to get a better idea of what's going on with your microwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pIExbxQMI
Hope it's still under warranty, good luck!

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.

To be completely honest this never happened to me, I would strongly suggest to keep in touch with Breville customer service and they will advise to replace or repair the part. (If I were you, I would have a look on eBay first to get an idea of the price for a new one) Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ana

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.

This my beef with this microwave oven as well. I hate not having the clock available all the time.

Personally I can live without one more glowing clock in the kitchen - I dread daylight savings as the oven has one, the hot water control has one, the room heater has one, our old dishwasher used to have one, there's a portable 'phone there that has one, I wear a watch, my mobile has a clock on it, it's pretty much hard to look somewhere and *not* see a clock and if I want I can always close my eyes and say 'hey google - what's the time?' and my google home will tell me...... ;-)

The clock is also of course pretty small as it's more intended to be used to help you with scheduling a time to start a program etc, when you're standing right in front of the microwave. If you really wanted a clock you can glance at to tell what time it is, I'd probably put a larger digital clock on the wall somewhere. Something with nixie tubes would be neat.

Anyhow, the light goes out automatically when it goes into standby mode - which it does after it's been idle for a while. If you want the light to stay on, you can try using the child lock mode. Basically, when the clock is being displayed press and hold the 'a bit more' button until it beeps and the lock symbol appears. The light will likely stay on until you unlock it by, again, pressing and holding the 'a bit more' button until it beeps and the lock symbol goes away. I tried it before and it seemed to stay on for a while.....

As far as I know, you can't. Because by pressing any buttons or opening the door the timer will appear...

No idea - that doesn't sound right at all, and mine doesn't do that?
It should do that when the door is closed, not open?

I called Breville and they said that is a programing issue in the microwave and is sending me a new one because that is not normal .