primitives discuss broken microwave oven

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11576688

Oh my.

Phentex (5,965 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

The microwave finally just gave up...

some of you will remember the light went out last year. This morning, the teen went to heat up some water and the sound was bad and the smell was worse. Pretty well dead. The teen asked, "How will we live?" Soooooooo dramatic. We indicated the old fashioned pot on the stove method.

I missed the light! My husband said this microwave was 14 years old but I really thought we had replaced it before then.

Oh, well. RIP.

NEOhiodemocrat (687 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. My husband, MIL and I were talking last year

About what "modern" convience we would least like to do without. (We are in 60's and MIL in 80's) I was shocked when both of them said the microwave! That was so far down my list it was imcomprehensible to me that it would make the top 10, even less the top item. Of course my top pick was the personal computer I imagine if my microwave died though it would be missed. And I would definietly have to replace it for my husband's sake. (All he does in it is warm up coffee anyway ... not like he cooks)

I agree with the Buckeye Democrat primitive.

I've never owned a microwave oven, and while I've lived in places that had them, I never used them.

Even if franksolich were to win the Powerball lottery, the last thing he'd get around to doing is acquiring a microwave oven.  A state-of-the-art unexplodable electric stove, yes, but a microwave, never.

[NHSparky]

Hmmm...let's see...what's hooked to the generator if the power goes out?

Well pump--check.
Furnace--check.
Fridge--check.
Microwave--check.
A few lights--check.

What's NOT on the generator:

Television
Computer
Cable (cause if the power's out or line's down, duh...)
Hot water heater
Washer and dryer

Priorities, DUmmies, priorities.

[Celtic Rose]

My apartment doesn't have a microwave, and while it is inconvenient at times, it is hardly the worst situation ever. 

[Chris_]

My apartment doesn't have a microwave, and while it is inconvenient at times, it is hardly the worst situation ever. 

I haven't had a microwave in my home since 2001.

I don't miss it.

[Ballygrl]

Stay away from Hamilton Beach Microwaves . We had a Sharp Carousel for over 10 years, we use the microwave a lot, little things started going wrong with it so we had to replace it. Usually before we buy anything we check the reviews on it, but I happened to be at Walmart and saw the Hamilton Beach for what I thought was a good price, we bought it and it worked fine for about 2 months, I noticed that it wasn't heating properly, then a month later my husband put the microwave on, we hear poof and the wire was charred. I finally decided to look up the reviews, turns out people were having tons of problems with it, in particular the heating element. I ended up going to Sears and bought another Sharp Carousel, it was double the price of the Hamilton Beach but well worth it, and it's got excellent reviews.

[jukin]

Stay away from Hamilton Beach Microwaves . We had a Sharp Carousel for over 10 years, we use the microwave a lot, little things started going wrong with it so we had to replace it. Usually before we buy anything we check the reviews on it, but I happened to be at Walmart and saw the Hamilton Beach for what I thought was a good price, we bought it and it worked fine for about 2 months, I noticed that it wasn't heating properly, then a month later my husband put the microwave on, we hear poof and the wire was charred. I finally decided to look up the reviews, turns out people were having tons of problems with it, in particular the heating element. I ended up going to Sears and bought another Sharp Carousel, it was double the price of the Hamilton Beach but well worth it, and it's got excellent reviews.

Quality only hurts once.

[Ballygrl]

maddezmom posted a beautiful pic of her kitchen ovens and microwave, very nice!

[franksolich]

grasswire (32,970 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

14. I've been without for six months -- no room.

And I miss it very much for warming leftovers. I had to choose between the microwave, the convection-toaster oven, or counter space. I chose the convection oven but am about ready to defenestrate that. I have always hated it -- it is tooo damn slow. It's a GE and not the cheapest model but still a piece of junk.

So I think that is going onto a store room shelf and the microwave is coming back and also a new small toaster oven. Can a toaster oven sit atop a microwave? Probably not.

[miskie]

We do have a microwave which is nice for some things, but in many ways I prefer the toaster oven. They are cheap, they heat up quickly because they are so small, and actually cook whatever one puts inside of it.

[Ballygrl]

I chose the convection oven but am about ready to defenestrate that.

Why didn't she just say she's about ready to "throw it out"? they're so pretentious.

[miskie]

Why didn't she just say she's about ready to "throw it out"? they're so pretentious.

The English language is chock full of words with limited meaning that end up abused constantly by the vain, arrogant and pretentious. Defenestrate is one of them - it originally referred to killing someone by throwing them through a window, and only that. (prefix 'de', meaning 'away from' in this context, and 'fenestra ',window in Latin) Then it got linked to throwing anything out a window, and now any sort of violent expulsion, is referred to as defenestration.

And the only reason for it is because the word sounds cool, and makes the user of it seem superior to their audience.

[diesel driver]

I bought a cheap (<$50) microwave oven at Wallyworld about 5 years ago, gave it to my MIL, and then to my youngest step-son when he got married and we moved MIL in with us.

Still works.

No buttons, just a timer dial, very plain, very simple, works just fine.

[franksolich]

Why didn't she just say she's about ready to "throw it out"? they're so pretentious.

The fecund grasswire primitive, in her attempt to nail franksolich for the murder of the late red round one, has read just about everything I've ever written on the internet.

She borrows some of my vocabulary, which I guess is a compliment.

It's like how the primitives only very recently started using "discombobulate," and it's obvious where that came from.

The classic case was the flyarm primitive, the Leona Helmsley of DUmmieland, who back in 2005, when she "borrowed," word-for-word, all my colorful descriptions of activities undertaken by the gay special interests here in Nebraska.

After that happened, I began using arcane wordage as a way of determining whether or not the primitives read franksolich, using words the primitives never heard of until they read it in something I wrote.

However, thus far I've been unsuccessful in getting a primitive to use "boryborygmous."

[miskie]

The fecund grasswire primitive, in her attempt to nail franksolich for the murder of the late red round one, has read just about everything I've ever written on the internet.

She borrows some of my vocabulary, which I guess is a compliment.

It's like how the primitives only very recently started using "discombobulate," and it's obvious where that came from.

The classic case was the flyarm primitive, the Leona Helmsley of DUmmieland, who back in 2005, when she "borrowed," word-for-word, all my colorful descriptions of activities undertaken by the gay special interests here in Nebraska.

After that happened, I began using arcane wordage as a way of determining whether or not the primitives read franksolich, using words the primitives never heard of until they read it in something I wrote.

However, thus far I've been unsuccessful in getting a primitive to use "boryborygmous."

Perhaps the primitives should invest in this -

and these -

It would certainly help.

[GOBUCKS]

Why didn't she just say she's about ready to "throw it out"? they're so pretentious.

Well, poor, addled DUmmy grasswire Judy has lately become really conscious of her addledness, and may have used a thesaurus in an ill-advised effort to sound "smart". A normal person would have instantly recognized the absurd pretension of using that term.

On the other hand, as I recall, Dustin Hoffman had a decent vocabulary in "Rain Man".