Pete wrote on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:06:32 -0500:


> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote in
>> message ...
> >> jmcquown wrote on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:02:16 -0400:
> >>
> >>> "Dora" > wrote in message
> >>> ...
> >>>> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>> Are these
> >>>>> the fancy "paddle-based" (as opposed to turntable-based)
> >>>>> microwaves that Wayne is always touting? I have never
> >>>>> heard of them outside of his posts.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -sw
> >>>>
> >>>> My apartment came with a newly-installed
> >>>> over-the-stove Kenmore microwave. I was surprised to
> >>>> find it didn't have a turntable - it has a rectangular
> >>>> plate which travels from side to side. Seems OK, although
> >>>> I haven't done any serious cooking in it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dora
> >>>>
> >>> The last microwave I had (a Sharp) was fine for nuking
> >>> frozen dinners or vegetables. But there was no way to
> >>> turn the turntable off. Sometimes you don't want or need
> >>> a turntable. It drove me nuts!
> >>
> >> You could remove the turntable and cook without it but the
> >> only reason I can see for doing this is that the dish is
> >> too large to rotate.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> James Silverton
> >> Potomac, Maryland
> >>
>> Precisely why I wanted not to use the turntable, James.
>> Sure, I could remove the glass turntable but the "track" it
>> ran on kept going round and round. I used to make a decent
>> microwave lasagna, but a glass lasagna pan on a turntable?
>> Nope.

>I take it you didn't read the owners manual for that microwave? The
>specifically tell you that if you don't want the turntable rotating you
>just lift up the glass turntable and remove the plastic "spider" which
>just lifts out of a square drive hole. You put the glass plate back
>down
>it that's it, it takes about 5 seconds to remove or install the spider.

Exactly, that's how it is with mine but, if all else fails, RTFM!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not