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I’ve been looking for a while, as my m/w is almost pre-historic (over 20 years old), and starting to fall to bits: rust developing in the corners, the door handle knob vanished years ago, the ‘ceiling’ warped and fell out, and there’s a dead moth trapped in the display… Also, all the labels to tell you what setting it’s on have cleaned off over the years, and if I need to do anything fancy, I have to look it up and guess… :rolls: It’s a Zanussi 632.
It has digital controls, and a stirrer rather than a turntable, which allows larger items to be cooked. It’s been fantastic, but is slowly wearing out.
What I’d like:
Stainless steel inside and out
Capacity to cook a 12 lb turkey (the present one will do this)
Stirrer rather than turntable
Combination oven if possible
Free-standing rather than built inThings I regularly cook in the m/w:
Fish, especially salmon
Whole chickens
Vegetables
Things like home made lasagnaI also regularly use it to defrost and re-heat family meals (previously home cooked), heat milk and other liquids, and defrost raw meats to cook either conventionally or in the microwave.
I’ve looked in all the usual places (John Lewis, Curry’s, etc). Can’t find anything without that annoying turntable!
Re: Is there such an animal? M/W question
Hi Kate
As always life is always a compromise :rolls: this time it`s no different. The nearest I can come up with is the Sharp R959SL combination microwave. It has a nice large 40 litre cavity and while it does have a turntable, the nice thing is you have two shelves which come with it and various slots in the cavity wall to adjust the cooking height. The other compromise is that it`s silver on the outside.
HTHDon
kwatt wrote:Panasonic. 😉
K.
I looked there Ken. While you can get the stainless steel finish you don`t get the capacity for Kate`s big birds 😆
Don
Re: Is there such an animal? M/W question
don wrote:Hi Kate
As always life is always a compromise :rolls: this time it`s no different. The nearest I can come up with is the Sharp R959SL combination microwave. It has a nice large 40 litre cavity and while it does have a turntable, the nice thing is you have two shelves which come with it and various slots in the cavity wall to adjust the cooking height. The other compromise is that it`s silver on the outside.
HTHDon
I only want ss on the outside to match the oven door and hob, so I suppose a ‘silver’ outside would be OK…
I REALLY hate turntables! They collect grunge under them and the grooves and the turny knob thing are a bugger to clean… I love my smooth, totally FLAT glass base in the Zanussi, but want to do away with the rust problem. Oh, and those turntable plates are usually far too big to fit in the dishwasher!
Yup – I’m fussy!
If it were me, the NN-CS596SBPQ. But that’s just me and it’s not cheap however it does a lot. 😉
K.
Re: Is there such an animal? M/W question
bit of lateral thinking, here.
have you considered a light commercial product?….Nesbit’s have a huge range and sometimes do “specials”..their “shop” also has a “clearance corner”
NOT CHEAP…and I don’t know if you’ll get what you’re looking for there, either.
I can’t honestly tell you that light industrial is any “better” , technically, than a top-quality domestic (both have one Magnetron and control-gear (the bits that make the microwaves )
The real catering ones have 2 sets of gear,but you’re talking around £1,000😯
Re: Is there such an animal? M/W question
It’s certainly an idea to consider… I’d need to look at the size carefully, as a small domestic kitchen may not have the right space for it. Mind you, the drop-down doors I’ve seen on some have a great appeal! Much better in my present set-up than maneuvering hot stuff round the side opening door to a free bit of work surface!
We bought the best we could find at the time, and it certainly paid off, as we must have bought it in the spring of 1986, when we spend 12 weeks of evenings and weekends stripping out the living room and didn’t have time to cook properly (and there was no room as the living room furniture was in the dining room, and with no door in the hole between the living room and kitchen, the dust got into everything!). We ate a lot of Marks & Spencer ready meals. It put me off anything but home cooking for life! I occasionally use bought zappables, but usually even my zappable dinners are home made! I have time to consider this as the Zanussi still works, and I’m disinclined to junk it just for looks and a lack of door knob… But the rust does concern me somewhat… I’m prepared to save up for a good one rather than buy a cheapo-crap item that might last six months if I don’t upset it!
Re: Is there such an animal? M/W question
But the rust does concern me somewhat.
Why???? you’re not eating it! 😀 …(may be a good thing to eat, anyway, stave off anaemia! 😀
once the food is hot, all the bugs are killed, so no need to worry. you could use a “scotchbrite” scouring -pad to clean it out,if it worries you…I’d just carry on running it ’til it dies. 😛
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