6/16/2023 0 Comments Quasar microwaveAnd I continued to use it to heat and cook food those same days, and for years and decades to come.īut here’s why I’m talking about this now. ![]() It’s done.’īut an hour or two later, much to my relief, Old Faithful would blink back on. Each time - and that probably happened six or eight times - I thought, ‘OK, this is it. The light went out and it just shut down. There were a few times when I was in frenzied creation mode that the old microwave overheated, and blinked off. And while most of the heat was kept in the kiln, it had to vent, and in order to fuse the glass, the temperature in the kiln was between 1,300 and 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit! I made thousands of dollars worth of earrings, necklaces and brooches in that wonderful little kiln in the old microwave. I used it to extremes, too, since as a crafter and before I graduated to a real kiln, I used to fuse (melt together) glass in a tiny kiln made, believe it or not, for the microwave. And the reason this is important is that because of his job, he managed to get all of our gifted appliances, including the microwave, at wholesale cost, which saved everybody, my in-laws included, a ton of money.īut while the fridge, stove, washer, dryer and dishwasher have been replaced multiple times since our marriage in 1986, that old Quasar has kept chugging along. And I need to note that my father, Ivan, was a manufacturer’s agent (you might better know the term for his career as travelling salesman), meaning he sold the wares of certain companies mostly to furniture, appliance and department stores back in the day. Our families were exceedingly generous when my husband Ken and I got married - my folks gave us our fridge and stove and washer and dryer, and my brother’s gift was our dishwasher. The back story about the Quasar is that it was a wedding gift from my in-laws. (What I’ve learned from the “new” purchase is that I can’t ever live without two microwaves!) We got a “new” microwave about 10 years ago, because I was sure Old Faithful was going to conk out any day. I know its variables, its quirks, its consistencies. I know exactly how its cooks whatever I want. This article was published (1309 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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