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My microwave started making funny noises tonight, and a little bit of sparking going on in there, (which stopped after a few seconds).

I suppose I'm due for a new one, this one is almost a family heirloom, it's been going since 1981.

I won't need to use it for tomorrow's dinner, and it'll be the wife cooking on Monday - I know she'll do the spuds in there.

Panasonic???

wine~o wrote:

Panasonic???

Once it has broke down it'll be NEFF.

wine~o wrote:

Panasonic???

Matsui.

Those micro-combi ovens are the mutts nutts, I didn't actual want a 3-1/2lb roast chicken but, I just had to try ours out when we got it.

1 hour, 14 mins from frozen to fully cooked, meat completely white all the way to the bone, the last 5 mins were quartz grilling to give a nice brown crisp.

Microwaves have come a long way since 1981.

Regards
T

Combi microwaves are the way to go, jacket spuds identical to oven spuds.

However that said, I haven't owned a microwave for 5 years, and I don't miss it

I mostly use mine for thawing bread for brekkie. buy one loaf every 10 days to 2 weeks...freeze it, thaw as needed.
Handy for that.
Use the "proper" oven for everything else
Ayjay...surrounding areas might have a better telly and mobile phone reception once the relic hits the skip....surprised you aren't "well done" from leaking radiation...

We have a Panasonic 'inverter' microwave/oven that serves all our cooking needs. As mentioned, their ability to do a whole 'job' at the push of a button is great.

Mind you, there's a lot of people using dud old-style microwave oven transformers as welders..... you have to rewind the transformer yourself but as a basic welding set they're suprisingly popular!

kellys_eye wrote:We have a Panasonic 'inverter' microwave/oven that serves all our cooking needs. As mentioned, their ability to do a whole 'job' at the push of a button is great.

Mind you, there's a lot of people using dud old-style microwave oven transformers as welders..... you have to rewind the transformer yourself but as a basic welding set they're suprisingly popular!

Welding with a microwave?

I think my mother may have invented that - she once managed to weld a ceramic mug to the glass turntable.

I never found out quite how, but suffice to say she was not quite the full shilling in her latter years.

I can see I'm going to have to look into the more modern ones, I'll wait until after the wife has had a chance to blow herself up tomorrow though.

could always put a bar of soap in it. or a lit candle

Could just be the wave guide,we had an original Toshiba that started sparking fixed it by replacing the wave guide sometimes carbon burnt on the wave guide starts arcing and burns a hole in it

fin wrote:could always put a bar of soap in it. or a lit candle

Won't work unless there's water in the item - 'possibly' some in the soap, definitely none in the candle.

When microwaves first became popular (late 70's ???) a frien of mine, who worked in a local electronics/electrical place, was demonstrating one to a potential customer when I suggest he showed us it 'boiling an egg' (although I knew what would happen....).

He put an egg (still in its shell) straight into the machine and switched it on. Nothing appeared to be happening so after about a minute of BS-ing the cutomer he popped open the door - at exactly the moment the egg exploded! Customer, microwave, shop etc all COVERED - I was pizzing myself at the amount of goop you could get from a single egg

I asked the wife to clean our microwave out after something made a mess inside.....left it a week and it stayed like it, so I threw it in the scrap bin a work.

No microwave = no messy inside.

Never bothered for the last 5 years or so.

ayjay wrote: I'll wait until after the wife has had a chance to blow herself up tomorrow though.

The Microwave appears to have got over it's little glitch and the wife's still here.

It'll probably crap out in the new year, just about the same time that the car and van are due for MOTs.