My Mircowave Conked Out

Last Saturday I tought I was cooking a TV dinner in my mircowave I turn the oven on, but I had nothing in it and it ruin the magnetron tube. On the plus side I had that mircowave for 22 years, and time for a new one anyway. They have mircowaves at various resell shops but there you are just buying someone else's problems.

Since all I been doing lately is using my mircowave to heat TV dinners due to the extreme hot weather I really do not need an expensive one. In fact, a person can get a brand new mircowave for $40 or less at Walmart.I may get one this week, if not it is nothing to worry about. I have other cooking methods.

The magnetron tube is what concentrats radio waves to mircowaves. Mircowave ovens cooks by rubbing water monocles against each other in food. However, something like paper plates, napkins, plastic etc does not contain water monocles so the mircowaves just pass through them.  

Don't turn your mircowave on, if it has nothing to cook inside it. You'll will ruin the mircowave. It burns out the magnetron tube.


My gas oven also does not work  and I still have TV dinners but it is really not a major problem since I have a  electric convention oven. 

The TV dinners are in plastic containers so I can't put those in the convention oven. However, I still can pop out the food from the plastic container into a ceremic dish or foil pan and heat them up in the convention oven that way.  :)