This is why I can't have nice things

[james_davis_nicoll]

Bus went missing. A bunch of us at the Stanley Park Mall split on a cab. That got me a few blocks from my place. Slog home, put a snack in the microwave, the power dies before I can hit on. I put the frozen snack back in the freezer, wait the power cut out. Power comes back on. I turn on the microwave.

White smoke comes out. See, I forgot to put the food back in before turning the microwave back on....

Fuck fuck fuck.

At least I didn't burn the house down.

Well, I know what my next major purchase is....

Any recommendations for cheap, reliable brands of microwave ovens?

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The kind you often see as part of a stove hood vent system. They don't sit on the counter and they tend to have more elaborate wiring/installation required. People like them because doing it that way gets them off the countertop, but it does tend to require one to do a lot of reaching up to operate the thing.

And when they fail, they fail badly.

[florbigoo.livejournal.com]

New Year's Day, 2011, at the family compound in the region described by Monopoly, on the beach near the casinos. Whirlpool Gold overhead range hood/microwave/convection oven (some kind of touch screen and a fast cook option) - I was running one stock pot and three pressure cookers under it, as the fume hood was running flat out. Suddenly - Bang! Pop! WHIIIIIRRRRRRR! and I got hit with globs of molten plastic, on account of the damn thing having turned itself on, due to the excessive heat from the range top having degraded the touchscreen electronics.

2nd degree burns to the index and middle fingers of my right hand.

I hate the damn thing. We don't have a microwave at all in NY.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

My condo wasn't quite finished when I bought it and the foreman was surprised that I didn't want a microwave above the stove. I reminded him I'm disabled and would prefer not to drop hot things on my head. So they took the price of their microwave out of the contract. (I've only used the oven three times -- falling onto a hot door isn't very fun either.)

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Have you read Patrice Kindl's The Woman in the Wall? I quite like it despite its problems, but apparently the little girl/woman bakes with a normal oven, and I want to know how she manages to do that without injuring herself given how tiny she is (small enough to fit in a purse when we first meet her).

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know about that book, and I don't know how a small person could cook in a big oven!