A bit of excitement at tea time

I was cooking tea (dinner) earlier. I had some rice in the steamer in the microwave while some mediterrean chicken was cooking on the hob. Then suddenly, BANG! something actually exploded with enough force to hurl itself right across the kitchen, hitting the wall with anothe bang.

I think I need a new microwave. An immediate investigation revealed that a small button cell (watch battery) which had been on the work surface just in front of the microwave, had exploded. Literally blew itself apart.

So that was exciting, but it also reveals something slightly less fun. I guess I need a new microwave. I can only assume that microwave energy must have been leaking through the door at a sufficient level to microwave the button the cell til it exploded.

 

That's why blokes don't like microwaves

Have to look after our button cells

 

thats dangerous , get in touch with the company

 

It is about 3 years old and was only about £25 from Tesco. I must admit that I'm a bit worried about how many times we might have obliviously irradiated ourselves but I think it has probably only recently started misbehaving.

You're right though it is dangerous. Quite apart from leaking energy, neither of us were actually in the kitchen when it went bang (I was just coming back in from the garden and wife, by coincidence was just coming in at the same moment to see what I was doing). If one of us had been in there, while I'm sure there wasn't enough force to actually injure us in most cases, a perfect eye shot would have done some damage.

 

I agree about the Panasonic microwaves, my combination one has gone on and on and on.

 

I'm thinking we don't really need a microwave. Probably 90% of its usage is to work the rice steamer. This gets me to thinking, instead of buying another microwave, I might just buy an electric rice steamer instead. I've had a look and there are ones out there, but they seem to get very mixed reviews, and nobody seems to be saying how long they take to cook stuff.

Anyone know anything about these?

 

I've got a Russel Hobbs Rice Cooker,had it for years and it's great...I only use it for rice which takes around 10 minutes but they can be used for all sorts..My microwave is just taking up valuable space really,I only use it to nuke butter

 

Only a silver star, to get a gold star it has to have come from Lakeland and have the original receipt with it so you can be 'not satisfied' with it and take it back for a full refund of the original purchase price under their no quibble guarantee scheme.

 

We bought this in Hong Kong on 25/10/1985 and have used it reasonably regularly since then.
Utterly reliable and cooks rice to perfection

it cooks rice for 8 - 10 persons so we also have a small one that cooks for 2, 4 or 6 persons.
Jenny
so simple in design, there's nothing much to go wrong really.