Advice So the microwave died. Recommend a new one and something to do with the old one?

[Mr. Argumentor]

Exactly as the title says. Had loaded up a potato the other night cause we didn't have time to bake it. About halfway through we hear a :BZZT: and it went dark.
Now we gotta get a new one and I gotta do something with the old one.

Anyone have suggestions on a good microwave?

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

hit up @fly for a consumer reports recommended one?
As far as the old one, theyre heavy so maybe a boat anchor?

 

[Valve1138]

Is this a regular front door type microwave or a drawer style?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Is this a regular front door type microwave or a drawer style?

There's a drawer style microwave?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

As far as the old one, theyre heavy so maybe a boat anchor?

I've seen people do @gee-like things with the transformers and such in them.

 

[Valve1138]

There's a drawer style microwave?

Yes. There is such a thing.

edit: we have one. it's a specific opening, not like the regular kind though.

 

[Valve1138]

Whatever new one you get, I'd recommend and inverter style where 50% power is actually 50% power and not the thing turning off half the time during heating.

 

[Domon]

obviously harvest the transformer and generator.

As for a new one, Panasonic Genius are still the gold standard.

 

[ZRH]

There's a drawer style microwave?

They are cool as shit. Star trek stuff. You're looking at like 4 grand though

 

[Valve1138]

They are cool as shit. Star trek stuff. You're looking at like 4 grand though

No you're not.

 

[ZRH]

No you're not.

Idk the ones I put in were. They were ahh some German brand

 

[ZRH]

Idk the ones I put in were. They were ahh some German brand

I got a mine off fb for free. Didn't fit or something

 

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

Idk the ones I put in were. They were ahh some German brand

Miele?

 

[ZRH]

Miele?

Or gaggenau they had touchscreen s and stuff.

 

[gee]

Seconding the robot - Panasonic inverter microwaves are good shit. They do stuff like actually vary the microwave power instead of cycling it on/off on the defrost cycle.

If features or style don't matter, just get a cheap trash one from Walmart. You'll probably get several years out of it anyway.

 

[gee]

And MOTs are a great way to kill yourself. They can easily deliver lethal current, at a voltage high enough to easily carry that current through you if you're not wearing the right PPE. If you touch the secondary side, you'll be dead with a high probability.

As of two years ago, 625 people are suspected to have died from electrocution while attempting "fractal wood burning" using scrap MOTs. It's fucked:

625 Death Due to Fractal Wood Burning: An Emerging Public Health Problem

AbstractIntroduction. The art of pyrography, creating designs in wood with a thermal heat source, dates back to prehistory. Risks include cutaneous burns and ai

academic.oup.com

If you do a project with the scrap transformer, hack the HV secondary off it, run a couple turns of thick wire through it and melt shit with high current, or build a spot welder or something. Just please don't do a project with the HV winding, I don't want you to die.

 

[Mikeawesome]

 

[Petunia]

get an air fryer

 

[Peppers]

get an air fryer

Air fryers for the win!!

 

[Mikeawesome]

get an air fryer