microwave leaking water

animal-lover_2

Hello
Has anyone had this problem?
I usually turn off the microwave at the plug (I read using it as a clock costs £50 a year in electricity) but water is seeping out underneath. It's like condensation - BUT IT'S NOT SWITCHED ON most of the time!
Any ideas? It's only about 2 years old.
Thanks!

hewhoisnotintheknow

i bet you close the door when you finsish cooking, leave it open for a bit, other wise the vapours condense and then collect and drip out

Also the £50 for leaving it plugged in is nonsense, probably more like 50p

animal-lover_2

Thanks for your reply.
No I leave the door open after it's been used and wipe it out.
The water is dripping from underneath the microwave, not from the door - it is raised on legs. It's on top of the freezer - would the warmth from that be causing it? Don't have anywhere else it could go.

Vibrant

Hi,
Microwaves work by heating the water in the food, causing steam to be vented (which is why baked potatoes come out like prunes if you forget them, lol), which then condenses inside the body of the Microwave and later drips out the vents underneath.
There isn't much you can do about it. I sit mine on a placemat, to stop it rusting the fridge. Leaving the door open helps a bit.

As hewhoisnotintheknow says, the clock will only use a few pounds worth of electric a year. Although being tight I still unplug mine (every penny helps), also it reduces the risk of a house fire due to an electrical fault.

27col

I doubt whether a digital clock would use enough energy in a year to be measurable, 50p would more than cover it. It is not as if the thing is on standby like some appliances. I can't say that we have had a condensation problem, so I am unable to help with that one. You can buy a gadget that measures that energy used by appliances. It plugs into the socket and the appliance is plugged into it. They are not very expensive. I tried ours on various appliances and decided that the savings were hardly worth the effort of unplugging.

Sledge_2

Maybe you just have high humidity in the kitchen, try an experiment where you place a few heavy metal pans around the kitchen and see if they show the same condensation problem.