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Wayne Boatwright
 
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Default Microwave without Carousel?

On Sat 17 Dec 2005 11:34:36p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Edwin
Pawlowski?

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> > wrote in message
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>> What is this reflective paddle for the non-carousel Quasar? That sounds
>> interesting.
>>

>
> I don't think it is made any more. When I bought our first OTR
> microwave, Quasar had a unit with a paddle hidden under the floor of the
> oven. It slowly rotated and bounced the waves around so no carousel was
> needed for it to cook evenly. It made utilizing the square compartment
> much easier with multiple dishes side by side instead of trying to fit
> things on a rotating plate. It probably cost a bit more to build that
> way though as I've not seen any built that way in recent years. .


Some of the GE OTR microwave ovens also had that feature, but they have
since gone to turntables. I really liked that design.

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