Originally published at: Microwaves that are too high up - Boing Boing
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For me, this would be all microwaves that aren’t on the countertop.
ETA: I’m short, is what I’m saying.
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Well I never!
Well, maybe I do, a bit. Sometimes. I mostly just flip things over when they get too dusty.
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“Ridiculous!” said five foot one (like Uncle Iggy) MerelyGifted.
This sort of shit is equally ridiculous:
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Well, it’s a pain sometimes, but this way the microwaves don’t go all the way up to head-level and give you Oldtimers Disease. It just makes sense!
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The previous owners of our house put the microwave shelf over the sink. It turns out this is a good place to store actually useful things.
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My new kitchen has a microwave above the stove. Not too high for me, but that’s where the vent fan should be. 
(And dammit, I now have a living room full of boxes, one containing another microwave, because I packed months before where I knew I was moving to.)
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Microwaves designed to go above the cooktop generally have the vent fan built into them. Ours does.
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Yeah, I saw that on the microwave panel controls, but nope. That’ll be on my list of things to fix. I mean, there must have been a vent there originally, IT’S A STOVE!
The new place has a strange neutral smell. It needs garlic, onions, mushrooms in butter, a long simmering stew! (But it needs a vent for occasional accidents.)
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Ohh, there’s no vent at all? That’s odd.
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I haven’t had time to investigate yet. It’s been a complicated move, and I’m still typing from a camping table back at the old place. A week and it’ll be done…
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I can’t see what the problem is. I often hold large vats of scalding-hot foods in awkward positions over my head while standing on an old crate on a slick tiled floor next to a glass-topped stove currently in use, when removing them from the microwave.
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I myself am hours from painting a basement wall gray after not-quite-eptly drywalling it.
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Yes! I was gonna post it if some didn’t
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My Grandma took it upon herself to paint our basement a terrible, hideous yellow, without consulting Mom, who was out of town at the time! I was a little kid, and didn’t yet have The Nerve to ask her, “Shouldn’t you ask mom first?” Besides, I’ve always loved most yellows. Most of them. Not that one, not by ahem a damn sight.
Mom was furious, and a few months later, she spent a coupla vacation days re-painting it Battleship Gray, which actually looked ahem grayt!
Somehow the gray made the space look much bigger and much brighter than what that wretched yellow had done.
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Maybe that’s the guy with squirrel friends so they can warm up their nuts.
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I’d post something appropriately lewd here, but I’m on a work computer. 
I had sort of a different problem with my house- there was a vent fan over the stove, but the previous owners had used it to clear the fumes when they spray painted the kitchen tiles House Flipper White over whatever floral pattern they have (WTF?!?!), so the inside of the unit was a speckled ugly white over black. It was also not fully operable, so it got pulled out and dumped.
I acquired a microwave with built in vent fan, and discovered that, while I could put it in, it wouldn’t leave enough clearance for the stove. That ended up with some minor cabinet rebuilding to give the unit enough clearance, AND give it enough support in addition to the wall bracket. It works, but a full -blown ‘gut the kitchen to the studs/brick and re-do it’ is on my long term list of things to do when I manage to get another 50 grand available to me. (unlikely at this point)
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A friend who is a realtor and contractor agreed with me that an atom bomb might help our kitchen.
I occasionally visit real estate sites to see what’s on the market here, and in a coupla suburbs. Whenever I see yards and yards of counter space, sufficient cabinets, and intelligently built-in microwaves in other people’s kitchens, I get all teary-eyed.
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