Has anybody done cabs where one of these was to go?
The specs for getting the opening, blocking, and electrical all look straightforward, but I am wondering how these things work.
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What is about being "in a drawer".
Just looks like a builtin unit.
Hitting the release latch allows the unit to open like a drawer, and your stuff to be zapped is put into it from above.
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Edited 8/18/2006 7:58 am ET by Gene_Davis
That model is different from the one originally posted. This model has a range on top. Are you sure this is not an oven? Also, with the drawer sliding in and out I envision hot liquids swishing back and forth. I think I would prefur the door hinged to open downward like an oven.
Chief of all sinners.
http://www.sharpusa.com/products/TypeLanding/0,1056,216,00.html
The one he posted is a drawer type.Tom
Douglasville, GA
Busy working moms want those so they can teach there 5 year old to cook there own meals. But what happens when junior cooks hot chocolate for 10 min. and then spills on him or her self?
Ahhhh! Another child-safety advocate! ;-)
Just how high up off the floor should these microwaves be?
Should I have my attorney design my kitchens?
I was thinking more of the poor kid than money or attorneys. Nothing directed at you, more at todays moms.To busy for the kids!!
busy moms? why not directed at dads?
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Gene,
I hope that I am taking your post wrong. I have witnessed a doctor peeling flesh from a child face and upper body with something that looks like steel wool.(Thank god not my own) from a microwave accident. In this day and time all we think about is law suites. Sue the pants off. We never think about the pain that may happen.People that put out frivolous law suites cause all of this!
Our microwave is under the counter, but it's a normal microwave. We love it because it doesn't use up counter space, and I hate reaching up high for those horrible over the stove units.
Got kids? Young ones? I got 4. Not all young now! My Children are about past that stage.(youngest 7). This was something that I know happens with the kids. I am not trying to bust anyone's chops!!~!
Kids? Yup, 8 and 5. They can cook popcorn in the microwave. They've been taught how to use it for popcorn, and the older one can melt butter, too.
how does it matter if the microwave is in a drawer or on the countertop?
You're right. This thread has folks fixated on the dangers of lifting hot food containers out of a drawer-sized unit, lifting up and onto the adjacent countertop.
Big deal.
How about pulling hot stuff out of those very common over-the-range units that combine a MW with a vent hood? Now you are handling that red hot food container right up at or above face level.
I'm not on board with all this concern.
A working kitchen can have hot foods in cooking containers being transported from many levels and openings to another. Look at double oven stacks, some with high wallmount microwaves.
Warming drawers mounted down low. Ovens under the range tops. Wall-mounted coffee makers. Lotsa ways to burn yourself. It's a jungle out there.
I think these are cool, but I always thought that these would be hard to wipe out when someone forgets to cover the food (and then lets it harden for a day or two)
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and when it goes bad, you got the trouble of finding a new one to match, fit and afford.
I'd prefer mine on the counter or higher up at face level in a cubby that virtually any standard microwave can go into.
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> but I am wondering how these things work.
Simple. You put the food in, shut the drawer, push the buttons ... and suddenly sense that your gonads are getting warm.
"Simple. You put the food in, shut the drawer, push the buttons ... and suddenly sense that your gonads are getting warm."
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I was thinking about this and came up with an idea--why not have it like a regular oven? Instead of a drawer that you have to reach down into and then lift the hot foot back out of, why not have the door flip down, and a tray that slides forward and catches, then just take the hot food off the tray? Less danger of spills and easier to get at the food--not to mention the hot food is at a level where it is easier to grab and not spill down the front of you.
I am just finishing up a kitchen that has a microwave drawer.
Installs quite straightforward - you do need to install a block along the top at the back as an anti-tipping device. (Instructions were real clear on location of block)
I was suprised on how small the cooking area of the drawer was, but does seem a quality unit.
The drawer opens and closes by way of a switch and moter, so no sloshing of liquids.
In my install, there was a warming drawer installed underneath the microwave.
Just ordered the cabinets with the sized openings, minimal work after that to install them. One note of caution - don't try to put a receptical in that same cabinet to plug in the unit- not enough room. I drilled through to the next cabinet and ran the cord through to it.
Terry
It may have been a Sharp. Do you recall whether it was the 24 or 30 inch width model? They make both.
My cab specs look like this, and you can see the 3x5 space in the upper rear of the cab where Sharp says the power receptacle goes.
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If the recep had been here in your installation, would it have worked? Or is Sharp wrong?
Mine was a 24" Sharp.
The recptical location you have will work, ackward, but will work.
I just found it easier to put the recptical in the next cabinet over (in my case it was the sink base) and run the cord over, especially so with a warming drawer cord to deal with too.
Terry