So... We got a new microwave a few weeks ago and it's really bothering me

[Ohio Joe]

Going way back to 1980 when my sister and I got our first apartment together and my grandmother got us a microwave as a housewarming gift, right up until this new microwave... Every single microwave I've used, all of them... Ones I've owned, ones at friends houses, ones at work, ones at the 7/11... Every single one of them... If you put in a cup to heat the contents, it took ten seconds for the handle to make one rotation... Till now. This new microwave takes 20 seconds to make a rotation. And it's bothering me way more than it should. I don't know what it means, I don't know if it matters but... It's really bothering the crap out of me

[Chainfire]

1. The microwave is really turning at the same speed, it has just caused a time warp in its immediate

vicinity. Don't worry about it until you start seeing Walter Cronkite on the evening news.

It will be fine. The speed of the turntable is not critical to its function. The original microwaves didn't have a turntable at all.

[intrepidity]

3. "The original microwaves didn't have a turntable at all."

So true! I remember when it was a selling point for a microwave to have the rotating feature.

And in all my years/decades of microwave use, I can confidently claim that I never *once* counted the number of rotations per second! Of course, that will have to change now, thanks (not!) OP.

[doc03]

6. I had a turntable that you had to wind up like an old time clock nt

[LuckyCharms]

2. I feel your pain. Wanna know what I just found out?

Scientists have just discovered a programming error in every calculator ever made.

Every single one.

There is a big announcement coming out today that is going to advise people of the need to go back subtract "2" from any answer they ever got by using a calculator.

Do you know how long that's going to take?

I wonder how it will affect the world economy?

This is true...I read it somewhere.

The rotation of your microwave might have something to do with this calculator error. I'll keep an eye out for any more news on this, and let you know.

[Pobeka]

9. Aaauuugghhh! Does that mean 42 is tainted?

Please tell me 42 is still holy.

[drmeow]

12. 42 will always be holy

No matter what the mice say!

[tblue37]

19. The Aeslin mice?

[drmeow]

24. I do not believe

that the pandimensional mice conducting the earth experiment are related to Aeslin mice despite the apparent similarities in their appearance on Earth.

[marked50]

14. What? 42 is still the Ultimate Answer---Thanks for the laugh.

[zuul]

4. My current microwave, bought 4 years ago,

doesn’t rotate in a circle at all.

In fact, the glass plate inside this freakish machine isn’t round, but is rectangular. When in use, the glass plate moves from side to side, then shifts from back to front.

Talk about a mind f@ck!

I think it’s spying on me.

[Ziggysmom]

5. Don't even get me started! I put a potato in the microwave, pushed the POPCORN button.

When the timer beeped, I opened the door and it was still a potato? Where my popcorn go?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Probably same place as my pizza!

[doc03]

7. My first microwave was a Toshiba, it lasted for more than 10 years. It was big and heavy like

the original VCRs were but lasted 10-15 years. The ones today are good for maybe 5 years at best.

[onethatcares]

17. ever try

to microwave something in your VCR? It takes forever to just get warm.

[doc03]

23. My neice toasted a PBJ sandwich in their VCR

It had a door just made for a sandwich.

[onethatcares]

25. try that with a

corned beef on rye. Freaking swiss cheeze takes forever.

[snowybirdie]

8. Glad to see

Your avoiding the stress of watching news by watching your microwave turn. Great idea.

[dameatball]

10. Coincidentally, my microwave (Hotpoint manufactured 11/2001) quit working yesterday. Nothing

worked at all except the lights underneath. I fiddled around with it (technical term) and eventually flipped the breaker switch and it is working fine again. I'm trying to remember if it is turning in the same direction or opposite. If opposite, will I get 21 more years out of it?

[csziggy]

28. My microwave alternates which way it turns with every time it's started

I think that's so it can wind and unwind the spring that makes it turn.

[csziggy]

30. My previous one died on Christmas Eve.

And I was relying on it for some of the things I needed to cook Christmas Day - mostly vegetables.

So I spent some shopping time on the internet, found one in stock at the local Lowes that I liked, paid for it online and sent my husband to the store to pick it up. He got there fifteen minutes before the store closed but they had it at the front desk ready to be picked up. I think they understood the urgency of the situation - why else would someone buy a microwave on Christmas Eve?

[dameatball]

31. So in a sense he saved Christmas??

I wonder how often stuff like that happens.

[csziggy]

33. Yeah, though I was only cooking for ourselves.

The one that broke was a cheap $89 one from Target that lasted ten years. The "new" one cost about $150, works about the same, and has now lasted about five years.

I have three requirements for a microwave: at least 1100 watts, no button to push to open the door, and a regular ten digit keypad. It's amazing how few meet those criteria.

[Dave in VA]

11. Our first Microwave oven

was a Montgomery Ward model. The only thing that rotated on it was the dial on the front for the timer.

Heavy and huge beast. We used it for 25 years before having to replace it.

[csziggy]

29. Are you me?! My first microwave was also from Monkey Ward!

Absolutely a tank of a unit. And yes, it lasted forever.

By the time I had to replace it, the entire technology involved with microwave ovens had changed and I had to relearn how to use one.

[dameatball]

32. My parents loved Wards....and Western Auto...and Maas Brothers. Okay maybe Maas was just mom.

[PJMcK]

13. Here's a cool thought

You know the screen on the microwave's door? The one with the round holes in it?

Those holes are smaller than the microwaves and that's why it's safe to look through the window. The microwaves can't get through the holes because the waves are larger than the holes.

If you have trouble using the machine, heat your food on the stove. It really doesn't take that long.

[a kennedy]

15. I thought mine was weird.......I put something in it to heat and set the timer, stop it to just check

how hot the item is getting, check item, it’s not hot enough, so I just shut the door hit start again and the rotation of the item is now going the other way!!!!! It’s like it starts out rotating clockwise, then a reset without changing time or power or anything, it goes into counterclockwise!!! What’s up with that??

[Phentex]

26. My old one did that. When it started to die, it spun upon opening the door...

it was so creepy

[a kennedy]

34. Damn, this wave is about 2 years old!!!!!! 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Harker]

16. I feel for you.

I'd trade my rpms for your 'ding - it's done' tone. Mine beeps insistently and annoyingly three times every half minute or so until I swear vociferously, put down my book, and trudge over to get my stuff out.

I can mute the fiend entirely, but my wife wants to hear her touchpad strokes.

[Ohio Joe]

18. My brothers wife...

Has a mug that says 'If found in microwave return to Jan'

[Harker]

21. Good one!

Someone needs to tell R&D that a little consumer consultation might nip these obnoxious little annoyances in the bud.

[tblue37]

20. Mine takes 10 seconds, and it is less than a year old.

[Phentex]

27. I thought you were going to say Obama isn't spying on you...

and you were somehow disappointed?

I would love an Obama microwave. I think I could sell them for a small fortune.

[IcyPeas]

35. I have a Panasonic microwave that must be about 25 years old.

this one also alternates which way it turns.

[trof]

36. It has a slower rpm turntable.

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