After the holidays it was brought to my attention that the home microwave was acting funny. Not ha-ha funny — but it was not working like it should. Now that does not surprise me, the microwave was a wedding gift. And my husband and I are fast approaching 25 years.<\/p>\n
So now the shopping begins, my husband is really into looking at the Internet, reading articles — you know research. I on the other hand need to go and physically look at what is out there. My oh my. What a variety of makes, models, wattages and features. After spending much time shopping (which by the way is not my thing) I decided I needed to sit down and ask myself some questions.<\/p>\n
| 1. How much space do I have?\u00a0 Mine will be on the countertop and most newer models are smaller than my older one.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 2. What kind of wattage do I need?\u00a0 Newer models have higher wattages than what my old one has. This should make cooking in it very interesting for awhile since most of my recipes are for a lower wattage oven.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3. How easy is it to clean?\u00a0 Flat touch pad and door opener – makes cleaning easier, also found one that has rounded back corners.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 4. What interior dimensions do I want?\u00a0 I have a couple of favorite dishes that I use\u00a0and I want to make sure that\u00a0they fit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5. What features are available?\u00a0 There are too many to mention, but the common ones include: express and extended cooking, inverter technology, sensor cooking, heating and defrosting, a turntable, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 6. What do I actually make in the microwave?\u00a0 My family typically makes popcorn, hot chocolate,\u00a0oatmeal, cook eggs for breakfast sandwiches and reheat leftovers. \nI do a few more things: heat milk and butter to accurate temperature for bread making, melting butter, softening cream cheese, melting caramel or baking chocolate\/candy coatings. re-liquify honey, soften tortillas, drying herbs,\u00a0 steaming vegetables, candy making, cooking casseroles and meats, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Now that my questions are asked I can go shopping and eliminate the models that don’t meet my requirements. And my husband can research fewer models, now that I have it narrowed down.<\/p>\n Don’t ask which one I choose — because until this wedding gift actually gives out I am more than happy to see it hang out and provide me with a bit more time. Call me a sentimental fool!!! After the holidays it was brought to my attention that the home microwave was acting funny. Not ha-ha funny — but it was not working like it should. Now that does not surprise me, the microwave was a wedding gift. And my husband and I are fast approaching 25 years. So now the shopping begins, my husband is really into Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[790],"tags":[57,322],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i","tag-microwaves","tag-purchase","cat-790-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/microwave.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |