Hi: I have a wobbly turntable in my Sharp R-820BK microwave-convection oven. It is not designed right, and the matter is worse in an RV that is not 100.000% level. Someone has heard that you can remove the turntable and turntable support and place a microwaveable support platform over the turntable spindle and set microwaving dishes on the support platform to cook. Or, if the convection feature is used, place something metal with feet to clear the lower heating element. My turntable has a small 1" tube about the diameter of a straw that sits loosely over a shorter spindle that goes down through the floor of the oven to the motor, which turns it. The whole turntable wobbles. TRUST ME. It's designed that way. I have it assembled correctly. Sharp went through the motions of authorizing a repair person to look at it. He's an RVer and pronounced the oven poorly designed, especially for in an RV. Nothing to fix. It wobbles as much as an inch. You get boiling soup or baking custard in there, and it slides all over the turntable and bangs into the wall and stops the turning. I'm surprised the thing hasn't blown out yet. But I digress.
The inside of this oven is stainless steel. There is a permanently attached heating element in the bottom. The heating element is square and stretches over quite a bit of the bottom of the oven. Does the turntable protect the oven from the microwaves? Or is it just a turntable? When I'm convection baking, I could set their grilling rack over the heating element and put the food on it.
The manual says never operate the oven without the turntable. Is that to keep someone from trying to balance a dish on the tiny turning spindle? Or does the turntable provide some kind of insulation? I can think of plenty of pieces I could put on the bottom of the oven to hold dishes above the spining turntable spindle. Sure, I'd have to stop the cooking process partway through to turn the bowl or stir, but that's no problem. Anything has to be better than this wobbling.
--pat
The inside of this oven is stainless steel. There is a permanently attached heating element in the bottom. The heating element is square and stretches over quite a bit of the bottom of the oven. Does the turntable protect the oven from the microwaves? Or is it just a turntable? When I'm convection baking, I could set their grilling rack over the heating element and put the food on it.
The manual says never operate the oven without the turntable. Is that to keep someone from trying to balance a dish on the tiny turning spindle? Or does the turntable provide some kind of insulation? I can think of plenty of pieces I could put on the bottom of the oven to hold dishes above the spining turntable spindle. Sure, I'd have to stop the cooking process partway through to turn the bowl or stir, but that's no problem. Anything has to be better than this wobbling.
--pat