Our shelf is 17.5 inches deep. Current microwave plug means that two of those inches are essentially wasted. Plus microwave is 18.5 inches deep, starting 2 inches from back of shelf, resulting in it sticking out 3 inches.
So this will be an improvement. Especially if the cord/plug is more flexible, allowing it to sit further back on the shelf.
Back in the old-old days microwaves didn’t come with turntables, so we bought one that you physically wound up & the let 'er rip as the food cooked. I see one on amazon for >$50 and think “Holy ¢®@π, you might as well just spend a little more to get a new microwave.”
This also is not a recommendation (especially since you don’t want a built-in) but our house (we’re the 3rd owner) came with this which we surprisingly like and aren’t annoyed by like we thought we’d be.
Ordered and already ready for pickup. On my way to Best Buy for my new microwave.
Hopefully tomorrow my breakfast is cooked evenly!!!
I assume I should just put the old one in the trash?
I’m middle aged, and I think this is my first time buying a microwave. I’m positive it’s my first time disposing of one.
Does Goodwill even want the thing?
Yes, my parents bought their first microwave circa 1984 and their first turntable shortly thereafter, so I remember those days. If you wound it up too much it wouldn’t shut off. But if you didn’t wind it up enough then it stopped turning partway through. Good times!
No, they do not.
I’m not sure about “trash”…it might be one of those things that requires special processing…e.g., in Hennepin County it would be accepted at a Drop-off facility.
Do you have scrappers in your city? We put things that are metal out by our garage and they’re gone within the hour. Not sure how “legal” that is, but it’s how we disposed of our last microwave.
Good idea.
Well the new microwave’s plug also causes it to sit 2” further out than it otherwise would. So this microwave sticks out 2”, as opposed to the 3” the prior one stuck out. The feet just barely fit on the shelf, but they do fit, so I think it’s ok.
Now I wanna microwave something…
Not brussel sprouts!
If I do, I’ll use the convection oven feature! 
← Literally!
Update: I wasn’t planning on serving garlic bread with dinner, but I was just itching to try out the new microwave / convection oven / air fryer / broiler, so I convection-baked a couple slices.
Bit of a stink at first as it cooked off the… whatever makes new appliances stink when you first use them. But that was while it was preheating. Garlic bread turned out great! Nice and toasty!
I’m looking forward to having a second option for baking / broiling. Happy with my choice so far.
Yeah, I kinda want to try popcorn in the new microwave, but I’m not trying to see how many carbs I can eat, and I just added garlic bread to dinner, so it’ll have to wait until later in the week.
I put an ad for it on Facebook Marketplace for free and someone just picked it up. Easier than figuring out how to properly throw it away.
I wasn’t even thinking this route because to me, who would want the thing? I’ve put a couple of things on Marketplace where it’s like “I’m not going to fix this thing, but it’s fixable so someone else might want to try.”
But this seemed so not worth it to me. But sure enough, people wanted it. In spite of my disclosure that the turntable didn’t work.
Go figure!!!
So thanks for the … not exactly suggestion, since you weren’t proposing Facebook. But the reminder that one person’s trash really is another person’s treasure.
This has to be a typo. I bet they wanted 17 5/8
I may have boughten maybe 10 individual items of clothing for myself in the 17 years my wife and I have been together.
(I can dress myself, but my wife proactively gets me stuff as she’s out and about, and it’s rare that I ever need anything. Of those 10 things, 7 of them were athletics-related.)
Twice a year I have to rotate 4 sets of tires (four vehicles). It’s a pita, takes way too long and it’s backbreaking work. Geesh, the truck tires are like 900lbs.
So Saturday I bought an electric impact wrench. One of those tools that you hear in the garage going
ZZZZZ!. No more using a breaker bar and socket to get the lug nuts off. ZZZZ ZZZZZ ZZZZ and done! and the reverse to spin them back on.
Best buy I’ve done in quite a while. Man it saved a lot of time and work.