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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:01:59 PM EDT
Do you and/or wife prefer location of the microwave above the range/stove or under the countertop (top of microwave would be about 35" ?
Yes, I know the CFM of over the range combos are next to useless.... I'll be moving in a few years for work, and this is a small house - I wouldn't get back many luxury kitchen upgrades. There's not enough counter space to mount microwave above counter height elsewhere in kitchen. Would be located on peninsula (but smaller kitchen than image)  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:04:20 PM EDT
[#1]
I really dislike the under-counter location, way too low for me. I have an above-range one and it's fine. I prefer it on the countertop but my current house doesn't have room for it.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:05:21 PM EDT
[#2]
Neither... put it INSIDE a cupboard.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:06:07 PM EDT
[#3]
Just stick it right on the counter like us real poors. Extra points for stacking your loaves of bread on top of it.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:06:51 PM EDT
[#4]
I am one of the poors, by choice, and my microwave is on my oak-veneered plywood counter.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:12:21 PM EDT
[#5]
Yeah I dont want to lean over a hot ass stove to pull something nuclear hot out the microwave mounted above said stove.
Lose some cabinet space if you dont want it in the peninsula or on the counter. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:15:54 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just stick it right on the counter like us real poors. Extra points for stacking your loaves of bread on top of it. How it's done, and sugar & spices. Proves I'm a poor because I have a tiny kitchen.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:17:23 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I am one of the poors, by choice, and my microwave is on my oak-veneered plywood counter. 
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:18:29 PM EDT
[#8]
I don't see any place in that kitchen except on the right of the sink on the counter top. P.S. Why no double sink?
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:18:37 PM EDT
[#9]
On the folding table next to the hot plate. Make sure you shut the door so roaches don't get inside. Never clean it, just buy a new one every year on Black Friday. Throw the old one out.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:20:36 PM EDT
[#10]
We don't have a microwave. After a kitchen remodel we didn't want the expensive drawer style, nor a large overhead unit, so we decided to stick a small one in a cabinet.
We've never bought one and we don't miss it. However, we don't have children. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:20:50 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah I dont want to lean over a hot ass stove to pull something nuclear hot out the microwave mounted above said stove. Lose some cabinet space if you dont want it in the peninsula or on the counter. Lol, if you are that short I’m sure you have a stool handy |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:22:47 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I really dislike the under-counter location, way too low for me. I have an above-range one and it's fine. I prefer it on the countertop but my current house doesn't have room for it. A top loading microwave wouldn't be the worst, but I like over the stove. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:24:38 PM EDT
[#13]
Best place for a microwave is in the garbage. They are the root of all evil in the culinary world.
Thorazine microwaved turkey bacon for fucks sake! |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:25:53 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I am one of the poors, by choice, and my microwave is on my oak-veneered plywood counter. Oak veneered? Lucky!! Mines painted. That shit don’t work well. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:27:37 PM EDT
[#15]
Quoted: Do you and/or wife prefer location of the microwave above the range/stove or under the countertop (top of microwave would be about 35" ? Yes, I know the CFM of over the range combos are next to useless.... I'll be moving in a few years for work, and this is a small house - I wouldn't get back many luxury kitchen upgrades. There's not enough counter space to mount microwave above counter height elsewhere in kitchen. Would be located on peninsula (but smaller kitchen than image) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/273720/island-peninsula-with-under-counter-micr-2296831.JPG Poll fail. Microwave cabinet FTW. 
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:30:02 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oak veneered? Lucky!! Mines painted. That shit don’t work well. When I bought the house, the previous owner had painted the shit counters with one of those even shittier Jackson Pollok/ ghetto Martha Stewart kits... FFS why bother. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:30:40 PM EDT
[#17]
Mine is in the island like your picture. No problems and we use it all the time because kids. A micro should never be in plain view if you can help it. Do not put it behind a cabinet door, that's annoying if you use it a lot.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:30:58 PM EDT
[#18]
Put it in the cupboard, or just get rid of it.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:33:43 PM EDT
[#19]
Sharp microwave drawer below counter.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:35:47 PM EDT
[#20]
Double oven with the top oven as a microwave/convection oven/broiler combo.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:36:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Neither... put it INSIDE a cupboard. Were you raised in a barn.... Sheesh    ...
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:36:49 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Double oven with the top oven as a microwave/convection oven/broiler combo. If I were staying in the house, I'd put in a double oven. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:37:05 PM EDT
[#23]
I have a oven/microwave combo installed into the cabinets. Looks like a double oven but it isn't. I bought it for ~3500 bucks but much prefer the height of both (has cabinets above it and drawers below it) since I don't have to bend over to put something in either. Range, is a range top.
Hate the look of a microwave above the range. usually doesn't have a lot of clearance especially for people that cook with large stock pots. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:37:29 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted: Do you and/or wife prefer location of the microwave above the range/stove or under the countertop (top of microwave would be about 35" ? Yes, I know the CFM of over the range combos are next to useless.... I'll be moving in a few years for work, and this is a small house - I wouldn't get back many luxury kitchen upgrades. There's not enough counter space to mount microwave above counter height elsewhere in kitchen. Would be located on peninsula (but smaller kitchen than image) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/273720/island-peninsula-with-under-counter-micr-2296831.JPG Range hood needs to be cleaned more often. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:37:49 PM EDT
[#25]
Poors microwaves sit on the counter.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:40:17 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Poll fail. Microwave cabinet FTW. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/cc/73/f4cc735987a7d116809b778fe692c60d.jpg Not a bad setup. Works for me. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:41:49 PM EDT
[#27]
Why would y'all do that when the one at 7-11 works just fine?
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:45:42 PM EDT
[#28]
My house didn't have one built in and the kitchen is small, so I didn't want to put it on the counter. Ended up removing the garbage range hood and installed a low profile microwave in its place. I think they are meant for kitchens that dont have the cabinet over the stove mounted high enough for a normal sized microwave. I like it. It's never been too small so far, and its not the huge ass box that they usually look like mounted above the stove.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:46:33 PM EDT
[#29]
Put it on a TV tray.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:47:15 PM EDT
[#30]
Mine is above the stove.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:49:07 PM EDT
[#31]
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Posted: 2/28/2022 9:56:33 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryFunctional, but I would lose sleep over the lack of symmetry. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:08:28 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Poors microwaves sit on the counter. Dang 
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:11:45 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I am one of the poors, by choice, and my microwave is on my oak-veneered plywood counter. Damn, you really are poor. 
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:11:56 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Functional, but I would lose sleep over the lack of symmetry. Quote HistoryQuoted: Functional, but I would lose sleep over the lack of symmetry. Could just extend the cabinet fronts down and cover up the whole thing. Then open the cabinet when you needed to use it. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:13:13 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just stick it right on the counter like us real poors. Extra points for stacking your loaves of bread on top of it. I usually stack mail on mine
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:15:41 PM EDT
[#37]
Not poors.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:22:41 PM EDT
[#38]
As a cabinet maker over the range has been on the out for me for a couple years most of the ones i do now are next to the fridge in a custom upper with a trim kit
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:27:03 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryThat makes my head hurt |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:29:27 PM EDT
[#40]
We'll never have a built in microwave again. Useless for the most part. A small on on the counter is fine. A big exhaust fan, tons of CFM and lighting gets used may more than a microwave.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:32:07 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just stick it right on the counter like us real poors. Extra points for stacking your loaves of bread on top of it. Loaves of bread go in the microwave you heathen. 
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:33:34 PM EDT
[#42]
Isn't above the range a 1980s innovation that didn't work for most people. Especially after most of us expanded our kitchens beyond the size of a bathroom.
ETA - I see you are in a kitchen that you aren't going to stay in. Then who gives a shit. Put it on the damn counter until you move. Okay |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:38:36 PM EDT
[#43]
Nice looking home, OP.
 You'll regret the under-counter unless you are two feet tall. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:38:43 PM EDT
[#44]
My built in over the stove just died. I have one now on top of a small deal that's just about microwave sized. Stack my paper plates on it, till the new one comes in. The replacement one is one I had in the shop for heating up drinks and shit every so often, along with a dorm refrigerator. It has to be 25 years old and still going strong. The dorm refrigerator out there I bought new in 1989 and still going. Shit not made like it used to be.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:41:04 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Poll fail. Microwave cabinet FTW. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/cc/73/f4cc735987a7d116809b778fe692c60d.jpg What in the 1984 Home and Garden issue is that? |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 10:48:03 PM EDT
[#46]
The hood/above the stove placement is lame and always has been lame unless you have a small kitchen (like you live in an apartment or one of those garden homes.) It is a great space saving idea when you have to save space, but it has carried over into homes that don’t need it, it’s a cop out for a builder who doesn’t want to spend the money to build it in. “Look the microwave is above the range, how modern, how trendy,” fuck that.
I also think it is a hassle, more so for someone vertically challenged, which I am not. I will never own a home with the microwave above the range. |
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Posted: 2/28/2022 11:37:34 PM EDT
[#47]
We have a drawer unit below the counter. Not the most convenient location to be honest, but it does allow an actual vented range hood that is awesome.
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Posted: 3/1/2022 12:15:38 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Poors microwaves sit on the counter. |
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Posted: 3/1/2022 12:17:02 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Functional, but I would lose sleep over the lack of symmetry. Quote HistoryQuoted: Functional, but I would lose sleep over the lack of symmetry. |
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Posted: 3/1/2022 12:20:26 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOrisginally Posted By NVCapCop: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/130695/20201125_142147_jpg-2296897.JPG Our cook knows where the microwave is. But if we were poors who had to use the kitchen ourselves, I like that low profile setup. Commonly used or accessed items should be at eye level. |
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