At first my fat ass thought it was a giant fountain-soda lid
AM/PM in the 90s when they let you come in and get a fountain drink refill in literally any container. I bet at least 1 person filled a microwave. 🤣
Such glorious madness I saw the tail end of this when I was a right little kid, I was with my uncle and we go into an AM/PM at like 6 in the morning and he fills one of those semi clear water jugs for like water coolers with Mountain Dew. Don’t know how much he paid cause I was like 3 but it was great.
Peter… Explain the joke.
A microwave plate is the part that spins during heating. It can be removed so it’s easier to clean. Removing it means that food will potentially heat unevenly and there’s usually a gear that the plate attaches to sticking out of the floor like a wart. Anything being heated will have to balance or lean on a slowly spinning gear which will potentially cause other problems.
You reminded me that some have a full bladed structure on wheels attached to that gear as a means of spinning the plate. Pulling this prank on one of those models would be even more diabolical.
That’s the joke?
The joke is that you can’t just buy the plate > in a quick manner and must order the replacement and will have to just…suck it up. And the absurdity of what such a theft entails.
AFAIK the plates are not standard (probably proprietary to that model/brand) so by taking it you probably have to get a whole new microwave if you want it back.E:thank you for the numerous replies saying they are standardized and replaceable.
They have become fairly standard due to consolidation of global manufacturing. I’ve taken apart a half dozen over the last decade and they all had the same slow mains motor and 3 wing drive mechanism. There are probably lots of exceptions, but the parts inside are pretty simple.
