Heating up some frozen dog food and it started making a deep menacing sound and, pow, flames are shooting out the back. :eek: Good thing I was standing right there to shut it off and unplug it. Now I have to buy a microwave. Damn.
I would concur that flames shooting out of the back of your microwave is not a good sign.
Seriously, what could have caused that? I presume that the microwaves themselves didn’t set anything on fire, so some part of the assembly must have malfunctioned (not that I would have any idea what part).
Most kitchen appliances seem to be one broken part away from flaming, spinning-metal, or watery destruction. Let’s not even talk about coffee roasters.
There’s nothing wrong, you just found the Turbo-Broil setting.
A few years ago, I woke from a nap to a sharp pain in the middle of my chest. On opening my eyes, I was treated to the sight of a thin plume of smoke rising from the electric blanket.
Burned through the blanket, burned through the shirt, burned through the hair and was just starting on my skin.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that flames aren’t the intended cooking method when using a microwave. :eek:
Electricity and microwaves are still serious things when they aren’t carefully controlled but that can go wrong very quickly. I have never had a microwave spontaneously combust but I have put metal items in them by mistake that caused quite the fireworks show.
When I was young, the electrical transformer close to my house was hit by lightning and caused the TV that we were sitting in front of at the time to self-destruct in a shower of sparks along with almost every other appliance in the house. That was pretty Metal but cost a lot of money to replace everything.
Luckily, decent microwaves are pretty cheap these days. I feel for you but you can get a better one that won’t even have culinary carnage splattered on the interior. RIP microwave - it was a good run until you turned into flamethrower.
…didn’t GE have a recall on flame throwing microwaves? Although I don’t know if it was panel shootin’, or back end firing. Either way ‘GE’ stands for ‘great entertainment.’
Greatly Exothermic?
Get Extinguisher!