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markt:
I repair commercial cooking equipment for a living.
Microwaves ARE NOT something you want to try to repair on your own.
The magnetron takes the incoming line voltage and steps it up to very high voltage.
If you don't know what you are doing these can put a very serious hurting on you, if not kill you.
boykster:
--- Quote from: markt on April 16, 2007, 10:02:03 pm ---I repair commercial cooking equipment for a living.
Microwaves ARE NOT something you want to try to repair on your own.
The magnetron takes the incoming line voltage and steps it up to very high voltage.
If you don't know what you are doing these can put a very serious hurting on you, if not kill you.
--- End quote ---
So you're saying he should give it a go then, right?
;)
j/k Chad....I'd take it to an appliance recycling place and just pickup a new one.....
shmokes:
Chad, I'd take it to an appliance recycling place and fail to pickup a new one. Microwaved food tastes like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. Get a toaster oven. You can heat and cook in that, and boiling water on the stove is practically just as fast as in the Microwave. The food cooked/heated in the toaster oven will taste way better. And you'll stop getting cancer from your microwave oven. Don't think your Microwave is killing you? Put a hot dog from the fridge on the countertop just outside the Microwave door. It will cook.
ChadTower:
We have a toaster oven and do use it for reheating most things, actually. What I like to use the microwave for is individual cups of water and stuff like Chef Boyardee. My kids eat Chef Boyardee for half their diet. We can put pieces of a well grilled steak and a baked potato in front of them and they won't touch it. Put down a can of Chef Boyardee Ravioli and it's gone in 90 seconds.
I also replaced the microwave with a small one from Freecycle a while back. I still can't bring myself to recycle this one even though I know I should and probably won't touch it. It's irrational. Or maybe it's just lazy and I don't feel like paying the $7.50 fee.
shmokes:
Still, that Chef Boyardee will heat up in a saucepan almost just as fast as the microwave. You'll gain a ton of counter space, get rid of a huge health hazard (who wants to deal with testicular cancer, anyway?), and you won't be nearly as inconvenienced by its loss as it probably seems. And as an added bonus, all of your food will taste better when heated/cooked in ways other than nuking them.
The only real benefit I see with the microwave is that I would trust my small children to heat their food in it before I would trust them to use the stove (though it's probably a little bit cruel to let them use something that is cooking them and giving them cancer while they use it . . . ). And even then, it's worth noting that letting your kids use the microwave isn't necessarily safe just because it only involves pushing buttons. Ever made Kraft Easy Mac in the microwave? When it's time to take the bowl out it has heated up to approximately 365 million degrees farenheit. And it's filled with cheesy, boiling hot water -- something I don't really't want my kid spilling on herself. Or maybe it's not cheesy yet. It's been a long time.
. . . and so on.
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