rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) (11/11/83)
Several brands of microwave ovens offer a feature whereby the bottom 1" (approximately) of the oven can hold foil with no problems at all. This was made especially for TV dinner lovers (who are these people, anyway?), from what I remember. HOWEVER, the poster of the referenced article was quite right -- do NOT do this unless your manual says it is ok; it is not a general rule. I have generated some pretty (dangerous) blue spark light shows in a microwave with find china that has a thin gold ring around the edge. I have also had a $700 microwave destroyed: My roommate's stepsister, with whom we shared a house split into two apartments, had heard that a microwave was great for drying pantyhose when a girl is in a hurry. She did so a couple of times with no problems, but one morning she put in a bra as well and immediately left the room. She came back about 1 minute later to find The Towering Inferno playing on 'the tube'. The 3/4 in. thick glass plate in the bottom of the microwave was in chunks about 1" square. There were stalagtites about 5" long of the inner coating of the oven hanging everywhere. Luckily, she had renter's insurance on the house, or she would be dead right now at the hands of her own stepbrother. :-) BTW, if you are ever really incredibly bored, get some large marshmallows and put one on a paper towel in the microwave on HI. It expands incredibly and loks kinda neat. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd clyde ihnp4 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj