On 1/19/2013 3:20 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

> Magic Chef. I had a G.E. for several years and it was fine. Can't remember
> what happened to it that caused me to replace it. I think it just quit
> working. But... I also found out that we had not been using them right.
> Apparently you are supposed to leave the door open after use to let it dry
> out inside. We were not doing that.

I do, but sometimes its just easier to wipe it out with a paper towel if
there's some steam build up.

Another thing we did wrong was to open
> the door in the middle of the cooking cycle. Apparently you are supposed to
> hit "Stop" before you do that. With the subsequent models, I tried to do
> right. Did mess up a bit. But daughter admitted that she wasn't leaving
> the door open and I'm pretty sure that husband didn't pay attention to any
> of this. From what I have read, if you don't hit "Stop", it shorts
> something out. Odd because my previous models didn't even have this
> function. There is also a "Pause" which I presume does the same thing.

I don't doubt you, but I've never heard that and I don't hit stop before
opening the door if something is finished before the timer stops the
device. Hmm.