On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:41:34 -0500, Cheryl >
wrote:

>On 1/19/2013 2:39 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>> For the same reason most stove ovens have an interior light... ovens
>> by the very nature of their configuration shade their interiors from
>> external light... maybe you wear a miner's lamp. Very often I will
>> check to see how food has progressed in my microwave, I would be very
>> annoyed if the light didn't come on when I opened the door. It's just
>> wrong for a microwave light not to come on when the door is opened...
>> it really doesn't need the light on when it's running because when the
>> door is closed it's near impossible to see food through that screen.
>> The microwave manufacturers who designed the unit so the light is on
>> when cooking but off when the door is open got it back assward.
>
>My old oven didn't have an interior light and I really missed it when I
>first moved in. I didn't buy a new oven until just this year, so 12
>years without an oven light made me so used to it, sometimes now I
>forget I have one.

Better than me, half the time I forget to shut the light off and don't
notice it's on until I shut off the kitchen lights and notice the oven
light is still on.