When choosing a microwave oven, buyers pay attention to design, functionality, size, the ability to embed, the price. But do not lose sight of another important feature - the coating of the microwave. Especially if you are going to spend a large amount on equipment. Let’s talk about what is the best option to protect yourself and ensure uninterrupted operation of the microwave oven for many years.
Why spraying is needed
The electromagnetic waves that are generated by the mechanisms of the microwave oven must not leave the camera - this will not only result in an excessive consumption of electricity, but also harm the person. These are the most important factors that you should focus on when choosing. But such details are no less important: how resistant is the spraying to abrasion, scratches and mechanical stress, how easily it is dirty and cleaned, etc.
What types are
When choosing an internal cover, a potential buyer is faced with four different options:
- enamel (food);
- ceramics and bio-ceramics;
- from stainless steel;
- acrylic.
Heat resistant enamel
The most profitable in terms of cost. It is easy to wash off fat from it, and temperature jumps are not terrible for her. The exception is only too high a temperature that persists in the chamber for a long time. If the goal is to buy a multifunctional model with grill and convection options, rather than a solo microwave, do not stop paying attention to this type.
Advantages:
- practicality;
- resistance to temperature jumps;
- low price;
- simple surface care without special equipment and skills.
Disadvantages:
- does not last long;
- not ready to hold high temperatures for a long time;
- not resistant to mechanical damage.
On a note! Samsung has launched a new line of microwave ovens with Easy Clean. This is the same enamel, just, according to the manufacturer, it is 10 times easier to clean it.
Stainless steel
The stainless steel camera will easily transfer any mode at the highest temperatures. But achieving the ideal frequency daily will not be easy. The fat remaining on the wall after cooking is washed only using specialized means. To get rid of spots, stains or smudges, you will need to make an effort.
Advantages:
- impressive operational life;
- resistance to damage;
- to temperature differences;
- to long exposure to heat.
Disadvantages:
- requires care;
- sticky fat plaque sticks;
- After years of use, the color fades, changes.
Ceramics and bioceramics
In principle, this is one and the same with a slight correction: bioceramic enamel appeared relatively later than ceramics.
The ceramic chamber is recognized as one of the best - almost no grease sticks to it due to the perfect smoothness of the spraying. Cleaning is effortless. The strength of the material is high, but it is better to avoid mechanical stress so that chips and cracks do not appear.
A number of experts claim that it is in the bioceramic coated chamber that the nutritional value, vitamins and other useful substances of the products are best preserved.
Advantages:
- resistance to mechanical stress;
- oily plaque does not form;
- retains the warmth of air during cooking;
- prevents food sticking;
- differs in antibacterial properties;
- durable
- just care and clean;
- retains the benefits of products.
Disadvantages:
- relatively high price, compared with microwave ovens with similar functionality and a different type of coating;
- fragility - chips or cracks may appear, requires careful handling.
Acrylic
This is a newly invented technology that has not received proper distribution. Acrylic cameras are used only in inexpensive versions of microwave ovens, the power of which does not exceed 1400 watts. They will be able to warm dinner, unfreeze the semi-finished product, please you with a hot sandwich - but no more.
The material is bad in that it works only at low power.
How to color the microwave
If the years of using the microwave oven are already behind, and the enamel layer is slowly disappearing into oblivion, you can try to restore it yourself, using completely accessible materials.
Tool selection
Most often, when irreparable defects of the internal coating appear, users “say goodbye” to the old assistant and go for a new one. But there are people in whose hands any technique is restored. For such craftsmen, we have useful tips for painting the microwave inside.
You need to start with the choice of paint, which should meet some criteria:
- Do not release toxins when heated.
- Resistant to humidity and temperature fluctuations.
- Match the “native” color scheme of the appliance for harmony (but not necessarily).
What colors are suitable
Before you cover the camera inside, examine the range of colors suitable for this venture.
Organic food special paints
Ideal choice, but the price "bites." The composition is resistant to any effects: temperature changes, alcohol vapors, acids, humidity. For the human body, they are absolutely harmless, because the composition is designed specifically for use in the food industry. Flawlessly lie flat on metal, aluminum.
Enamel formulations for the food industry usually paint containers for drinking water, so you can not worry about their environmental cleanliness. The paints in question consist of zinc powder and an alcohol solution that has undergone a special treatment.
Fact! Enamel prevents corrosion processes in a microwave oven due to "cold galvanizing", can tolerate temperatures up to 100 degrees, resistant to moisture.
Conductive
In the composition you can find zinc, aluminum, silver or shungite. Drying, the layer becomes resistant to the environment, is able to tolerate t ° up to 200 degrees. It is rarely used in coating furnaces due to its high cost.
Based on shungite
Shungite is a breed characterized by chic energy-saving properties. In 1000 kg of this material contains 300 kg of shungite carbon, whose active properties are higher than that of coke. It is dense, durable, electrically conductive, so the basics, both antistatic and heat-resistant, come out of it what is needed. Feel free to take such paints for a microwave oven.
Car Acrylic
Cheap and cheerful. Requires rusting, degreasing of the surface. Available in cylinders: one is enough for one stove.
Painting process
Here you are unlikely to learn something new, but just in case, study the stages of painting:
- Prepare the surface by sanding the chamber with a sheet of sandpaper. Level the bubbling surface.
- Degrease the chamber with alcohol or its solution.
- Apply paint.
- Leave the camera open until completely dry.
Now you know everything about the coatings of microwave ovens: what they are, what are their features, how to restore with your own hands. Have a good choice or repair you!