Do expensive microwaves make a difference whatsoever?
maybe they come with an option to silence the beeps
>>21673756Hate playing the good samaritan here but if you are planning buying that don't.
>>21673791Reason?
>>21673798Flat surface touch buttons, you will start getting pissed at the thing after 2 years of use.
>>21673756It's more model and features. My microwave is 30+ years old and it has a nearly magic reheat button. My friends new microwave has a shit reheat button. Neither are expensive or comically cheap.
>>21673756They’re usually higher wattage so faster cooking, and I think some more expensive ones also are a convection oven. What’s your price range?
Can I buy a microwave with fucking BACKLIT REAL BUTTONSinstead of unlit touch shit?that would be real luxury>>21673765it took me SO LONG to figure out how to do that but I finally did and its PURE HEAVENwhy do they make it chime EVERY MINUTE FOREVERwhy not just once or twice?
Then cheaper the microwave the weaker it is and the longer the cook time.
no, because the "features" in the expensive microwaves is most likely just internet connectivity. buy an old microwave.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0in the 80s they had microwaves with thermal probes so the oven knew when meat was done.
>>21674469https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AT-yJHEVOQ
Inverter microwaves are better, they can control the power of the magnetron for a more even cook. normal microwaves turn the magnetron on and off at intervals
>>21673756I use my microwave daily, so just having it eye level is key. I might use defrost setting for frozen meat, or nuke a pyrex full of water to make a instant baby reds, or a steam in bag corn or edamame, or just to add warmth to my capuccino that got too cool while I was on the phone.iirc, a cheaper model sucks for defrost and detection things. My will beep and stop popcorn when the popping stops. Mine will nuke baked potatoes to perfection too.
>>21673756>Do expensive microwaves make a difference whatsoever?they give you cancer faster
What would it feel like if you were in a microwave as it was running?
>>21674667There's gotta be some gore videos out there where someone microwaves a baby or a cat or something. Would be a shame if it got posted here
My wife and I did a minor kitchen remodel a couple years ago. We had a 1100W GE microwave. I liked that microwave. There was nothing wrong with that microwave. My wife demanded we buy a $600 Z-LINE microwave to replace the functional GE microwave. It SAYS it's 1000W but it's more than a 1/11 difference. It has a convection oven in it so I guess that's an improvement.
>>21674469>when meat was done.Retards were really cooking fucking meat in the microwave ???
>>21673756>900 wattsOof
>>21673756Why do you need a microwave to begin with?
>>21673765>>21673834My current one has no way to disable it, and the last microwave before it I took the peizo out.
>>21675096It's nice to have to reheat food.
>>21674480this is the real answer and it has no replies. you're all retarded.
>>21675107I have never owned a microwave and didn't grow up with one in the home either. I use my stove, oven, or toaster oven to reheat food. I've had microwave reheated food before while at family and friends homes and it's not good.
>>21675116Lmao this dude grew up without the most common appliance on earth
>>21675088You have no idea. Prepare yourself for true horror.https://youtu.be/FLDzDukmSsE?t=1660
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>>21673756yep,expensive microwaves are called ovens
>>21674469Mine's got a turkey probe. I don't know why anyone would cook a whole assed Tom in the microwave but it's neat to know you could.Anyway repeating digits cook time master race.>222, start>44, start>66, start
>>21673756More features and room usually.I'm going to order a small second microwave for another floor of the house; hopefully one that I can turn off the loud beeps. >>21673765I'd read somewhere that almost all microwaves have some way to do it but you have to enter a code or something. I have a $200 microwave and I could never figure it out. Might just get me an old school one where the dial just dings a bell.
>>21675116I get your attitude, but microwaves are really convenient for many reheats. I'll use a skillet or an oven for certain things, but sometimes I just don't want to dirty anything and just eat a hot thing out of the bowl or container it was stored in and I want it in 90 seconds without spending a lot of energy. Heating up a cold coffee in a saucepan is retarded. Firing up the oven or a skillet to reheat leftover pasta is a waste of my time. Microwaves will get the food hot but not necessarily the bowl, and it won't get anything so hot it will burn your skin; or you did it wrong. It's cool you know your way around a kitchen without a microwave, but for a lot of things it's a real time and energy saver; a true convenience. I use mine almost daily, and I do really involved cooking. It has its place.
>>21675301Fucking Internet Of Things nightmare. I have invested in two non-smart flat screen TVs which will stay in the boxes until needed; should last the rest of my life. Fuck that smart shit. Do it now if you can afford to. Get that really nice digital camera from ten years ago, a sous vide, a microwave, coffee maker... anything that's going to be gone soon and replaced with bluetooth internet bullshit. If you're really serious get solid state radios and a vehicle. Stuff that can survive an EMP. I'm no Uncle Ted, but I've watched everything get more needlessly digitialized on online-capable over the years and it's really benefited no one. No one needs to pre-heat their home kitchen toaster oven from an app on their phone. They really don't.
I bought the most expensive one at Kmart and it is really good, and I like the size of it, but after a couple years the nuclear reactor or whatever magic lament configuration inside that generates the gamma rays has gotten super fucking loud. I think it might be dying.
>>21675348>Firing up the oven or a skillet to reheat leftover pasta is a waste of my timeThis is the attitude of the microwave user that I have never understood. I put leftover pasta in a pan with a splash of water and it heats up in no time and isn't tough or rubbery or dry like the reheated pasta I've had from microwaves. It takes less than ten minutes from start to finish to heat up pasta on the stove and the pot takes less than two minutes to wash. I'd rather spend a little more time for a tasty meal than using a microwave. The time saved by using a microwave is so insignificant it's laughable. No one is so busy they NEED a microwave. People are just lazy and impatient and need things NOW.
>>21675301What do you get when you cross a microwave oven with touchscreen bullshit and Internet connectivity? I'll tell you what you get. You get what you fucking deserve!
>>21673756probably not, I'm happy with my Walmart one. Although... I stood with head near it and it's rad-ACK
>>21675331I love that retro design, they should sell a throwback line
>>21674480I mean, technically the inverter circuit is doing the same thing too for the magnetron except the signal is alternating thousands of times a secondI was looking for the inverter comment cause that's the one I was gonna make. Other than wattage and perhaps certain rare minute features I can't think of, inverter microwaves are the only reason I can think of to spend the extra money on
>>21675301>takes 30 seconds to turn on the fucking microwaveSucks his apartment paid for shit like that
>>21675401>12 minutes to heat up pastaYou know you can do the splash of water trick with the microwave too right? These mental gymnastics you're doing reminds me of my mom's excuses for not wanting to use a dishwasher
>>21675850Microwaved pasta has a gross texture and the microwaves fuck up the sauce. If you can't spend 12 minutes heating up pasta on the stove so it tastes good and then cleaning up then you shouldn't be a cooker.
why dont you just open it up and cut the cord causing the beeping. it should be pretty easy to find if youre not retarded.
>>21675872>cookerGuy, if multiple people are telling you they can make microwaving food taste perfectly good, it's as crazy as someone saying you need to hand knead your dough to make good bread, and use a mixer makes you a bad baker.
>>21674480>>21675842Thirding the inverter comment. If you only reheat stuff at full blast it's not going to make any difference whatsoever. Once you need the lower power levels for anything like making oatmeal, you'll see that the timer-actuated magnetron sucks ass.Microwave ovens are terrific timesavers because they're efficient as hell. Steaming mixed root vegetables in a microwave is awesome, you can dice them up in advance. No agitation means they keep their form. Gentle steam and they simultaneously cook from the inside, it's fast as fuck boii. I also make my morning oatmeal in the nukebox because fuck dirtying my only saucepan every morning. And it's so repeatable it's truly hands-off.
>>21673756You really shouldn't be paying past $200 for a nuke box on it's own (I'm allowing for large cu foot). The best ones are a combo of microwave, oven, and air fryer. Gives you a small electric secondary oven that isn't a bitch to preheat, and saves space by being an air fryer too for tendies/fries. Then of course a standard nuke box for everything else. Inverter/temp tracking is the latest meme in nuke tech, but I don't have it to verify it really is worth the cost, but it looks like it automates the manual lowering of the power level you need to do for even cooking. So probably a boon.Anything tacked on for connectivity is a meme for scamming you. Your shit does not need an app to track your 1:30 nuke time.
>>21675301Im raging
>>21675401Works for some pastas. Not lasagne.
>>21673834Fuck buttons, I have a microwave with exactly two functions: a big-ass dial for time, and a big-ass dial for watts. No button for the door either, you just yank it open from the handle.It's simple and fast as fuck to use.
