Need a new over the range microwave (program, direct, dish)
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Mine just self destructed in the door. Gave me one more cup of reheated stew then it door latch went to pieces. It was a GE Profile and I am not that picky, just want a replacement, after 5 years, but things puzzle me.
Many of the current GE types are going for 300-400 for a 1.6-1.7 cu ft in the 1000 watt range....but Profiles are going for $1339. What makes them so costly?
As it is, my microwave use is not that complicated. Defrost meats, melt butter, reheat coffee and soups, canned soups in the measuring cup, melted butter-sugars-chips for pan cookies, that kind of stuff. It needs to be over the range for that is the way the house is built.....and I need a microwave as another cooking source, just in case like the natural gas peters out but I still have the solar grid.
I have a basic over-the-range GE microwave and it's worked just fine for the 5 years I've had it. I use it for the same things you do and it's totally adequate. The previous basic GE microwave that was installed when the house was built in 1999 lasted 17 years before it gave up the ghost. I'd like to know why the Profiles are so expensive, too. I suspect the innards might be the same but it's all in the badging and cosmetics.
All depends what you want to do: just warm up food and drinks? Defrost? Cook/bake? Make elaborate dishes?
The cost of the microwave depends on your answers.
I had refurbished Tappan that I bought at Sears. It lasted 20+ years without a single problem. Big and fast. Programmable too.
It stopped working but the new microwave is years behind that ol' good Tappan. I still have it in the garage and seriously ponder repair, suspecting that all it needs is replacing a fuse.
All depends what you want to do: just warm up food and drinks? Defrost? Cook/bake? Make elaborate dishes?
The cost of the microwave depends on your answers.
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Most of my cooking is of the first two. What I do in baking is just to melt down the sugars and butter to mix in the batter. Melted cheese on things is an occasional decadence.
In the apartments, I had sworn off microwaves but then when I was in the rental house, I was reminded of their usefulness.....when I was waiting for them to hook up the gas stove. So between just the basics.....and a backup to the more complex.
My main thing with a microwave purchase is to get a 1,000 watt'er as most cooking directions are written for them.
Good advice!
As it is, I found the product serial numbers on the old unit and bought the same kind. All told, between base price, protection plan, put it in, take old one.....and it being on sale......just under a Cleveland.
The $1,000 + ones are convection oven combos. Waste of money if you ask me not that anyone did. Can it reheat a cup of coffee? We're good. Convection ovens are nice but I already have one and don't need another one. If you're a big cook person having a combo microwave + convection oven might be useful for baking two things at different temperatures but otherwise I can't really see the point of it myself.
It wasn't $1,000. She bought the protection plan. Paid for removal and install.
So, I'd guess $650.
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