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Stand-alone turntable for microwave ovens | |
A stand-alone turntable for microwaves that don't have one built-in. (Perhaps something contracting / expanding as it heats up, "metal
memory"?)
I've seen something like this, but it was mechanical;
one simply winds up a spring.
Nordicware Micro-go round
http://www.amazon.c...96-7394500?v=glance
The wind-up kind [robinism, Feb 16 2005]
http://web.archive....idea/Chez_20Monitor
[hippo, Feb 16 2005, last modified Dec 07 2007]
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I've got one of the windup ones, and unless you do a lot of actual cooking <as opposed to just reheating> one 15 second windup will last for a couple of weeks...Would be hard to get a memory-metal to slowly expand over time like that, I think... |
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What's it made out of, that survives
in a microwave? I assume there
aren't any metal components. |
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Mice in wheels could be used to power it, I suppose. |
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This device was advertised as the 'Micro-Go-Round' on North American TV about 4 years ago. It was a wind-up turntable like StarChaser described. And no- it didn't have any metal parts
(I know- I took it part to see how it worked.). |
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Mice explode when you put them in microwave ovens anyway.
(That's from personal experience- my neighbor did it.) |
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[jutta], how did you manage to post this two full years before the existence of the site? (OK, I'm not genuinely asking, just pointing out the discrepancy) |
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Maybe that's when she first thought of it, so when she put it on the site, she back-dated it. |
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See [jutta]'s explanation on Chez Monitor (linked). |
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I don't get why it can't be metal - the inside of my microwave is stainless steel. I guess you just have to earth it to the case. |
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Dazzle your friends with a microwave that turns around and around. A bit of clever design where the power-cord meets the unit, but otherwise quite straightforward. The food sits on a very high-mass table that's either mag-levved or on some other very low friction bearing or kept in place with gyros. |
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More a conversation piece than anything else, but handy if you've got a lot of family photos or other stuff that you want to put on display on top of the overn. |
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This place has been around for 10 years? |
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See [jutta]'s explanation on Chez Monitor (linked). |
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Maybe time to buy a new microwave? I
don't think I've seen a turntabless one (but
on the other hand, I don't look at a lot of
microwaves). |
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It could be powered by microwaves - probably fairly easy to do, and it would start and stop automatically as needed. |
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As for [husband_of_bath]'s idea, microwave turntable motors run at a constant speed, determined by the frequency of the AC power supply and their internal gearing (they are thoughtfully designed so that for multiples of (I think) 30 seconds they rotate a whole number of times, so the handle of your container is back where you left it). If the oven were rotated by a motor of the same type as the turntable's, but rotating in the opposite direction, friends could be dazzled as required. |
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at the edge of the tray, may be stick a bottle of water with a hole in the farthest side.. as the water boils, the steam makes the tray rotate. |
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