I tried to melt butter yesterday to make those donuts and when I started the microwave to go for 10 seconds, the first second was fine. Then it started arcing and snapping. I stopped it and checked my ceramic bowl to see if there was something funky in the bowl. Nothing. I always use this bowl to melt butter and chocolate and have never had a problem before. So I tried it again. Same thing. And this time, I killed it. The inside light still works, but it won't come on. I got the manual out to see about a reset button or something. There isn't one.
This is an old Sharp Carousel. We bought it years ago to replace a older Sharp Carousel convection/microwave that my parents had given to us as a Christmas gift decades ago. The exterior lights gave out several years ago, so we could never tell if we were pressing 2 minutes or 7. But it worked, so no reason not to use it, as long as we were careful when pressing times.
I said to Rick that maybe we wouldn't bother to replace it and he looked at me like I was crazy. He uses it every morning to make his oatmeal. And I do use it for melting butter, chocolate, etc. Thawing foods right from the freezer, Boiling water. I do cook in it and I do a lot of cooking prep work in it, too. Like microwaving squash to cook it quickly. So it's not like we don't use it. It's so much easier to use the microwave than it is to use the stove.
On Friday, when we came home from work, the house was very, very warm. We had had a power surge or outage at some point because the clock in the bedroom was blinking. Rick checked the temp in the living room and it was close to 80 F. Way too warm. The register was really hot to the touch. We turned the register off and let it off for about an hour or so, then turned it on to about 50 F. The register is working fine now, but we're thinking that the power surge screwed things up big time. We get nasty power surges here a lot. And the power will go off for a couple minutes and then come back on; that mainly happens during the summer, but happens during the winter, too, esp when we get heavy, wet snow that the old wires can't handle. The joys of living in a rural area. It's not our house; it's the electric company's equipment and wires and such.
It shouldn't have affected the microwave, though, because it was unplugged. The last thing I always do before leaving the house to go to work is check to make sure I've unplugged the microwave. I've heard too many horror stories of microwaves turning on by themselves and then starting fires in the kitchen. Consumer Reports has talked about this several times, too. I pretty much keep it unplugged unless I'm using it.
So I don't know. We'll probably have to replace it, I guess.
This is an old Sharp Carousel. We bought it years ago to replace a older Sharp Carousel convection/microwave that my parents had given to us as a Christmas gift decades ago. The exterior lights gave out several years ago, so we could never tell if we were pressing 2 minutes or 7. But it worked, so no reason not to use it, as long as we were careful when pressing times.
I said to Rick that maybe we wouldn't bother to replace it and he looked at me like I was crazy. He uses it every morning to make his oatmeal. And I do use it for melting butter, chocolate, etc. Thawing foods right from the freezer, Boiling water. I do cook in it and I do a lot of cooking prep work in it, too. Like microwaving squash to cook it quickly. So it's not like we don't use it. It's so much easier to use the microwave than it is to use the stove.
On Friday, when we came home from work, the house was very, very warm. We had had a power surge or outage at some point because the clock in the bedroom was blinking. Rick checked the temp in the living room and it was close to 80 F. Way too warm. The register was really hot to the touch. We turned the register off and let it off for about an hour or so, then turned it on to about 50 F. The register is working fine now, but we're thinking that the power surge screwed things up big time. We get nasty power surges here a lot. And the power will go off for a couple minutes and then come back on; that mainly happens during the summer, but happens during the winter, too, esp when we get heavy, wet snow that the old wires can't handle. The joys of living in a rural area. It's not our house; it's the electric company's equipment and wires and such.
It shouldn't have affected the microwave, though, because it was unplugged. The last thing I always do before leaving the house to go to work is check to make sure I've unplugged the microwave. I've heard too many horror stories of microwaves turning on by themselves and then starting fires in the kitchen. Consumer Reports has talked about this several times, too. I pretty much keep it unplugged unless I'm using it.
So I don't know. We'll probably have to replace it, I guess.
