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Couldn't locate any replacement grills here. Spoke to a few friends who have the same issue.

Yeah I am a little worried too but the waste of gas is irritating me.


I think the grate is way too high. I've never seen it being so high in India. Posted pics.

Whoa, that is high! The grate we have at home sits pretty low. Amazon and other online stores seem to have a bunch of burner grates, have you considered ordering a few and return the ones that do not fit?

Sorry haven't gone through your issue in depth but recommend you don't fiddle with anything unless you check the hyperlocal fire code specific to your building, your building supervisor, neighbors, landlord or previous owner.

At least in the UK's crowded central business districts, NO mods are allowed at all to existing cooktops, gas ranges are not allowed and it's all electric. One of my Indian colleagues had bought a gas stove for his chapatis, and he was served with a mandatory severe penalty on a surprise inspection.

Maybe the manufacturer too? Do go through your rental contract and household insurance policy too if applicable.

Almost 3 cm there! Reminded me of a popular Akbar-Birbal stories - the one with "Birbal Ki Kichidi!"

I guess one recourse in this case could be to have the flame always set at least on medium high. This will keep the flame high enough to reach that plane at about 3cm high.

I'm planning to get a new front loading washing machine. My house is an independent house with just a ground floor and the water tank just on the top.

My current washing machine is IFB Digital 7 model from 2009. When I finalised this model in 2009, I was specifically told about the pressure requirements and asked about the floor where I stay. At that time I stayed in an apt in 3rd floor and the tank used to be somewhere at 6th floor height(just for reference) and I had no issues at all.

In 2015,i moved to the current house in a different city and from then I started to have issues with IFB machine. Had made some adjustments to the water line and it works sometimes and doesn't work other times. When it doesn't work it goes into pause mode and we need to pour water into the detergent tray either in the beginning or during rinse time.

I know we can over come this by installing a pressure booster pump. But still want to know if the current gen machines work without the pump and with existing setup.

Most of the manuals speak of pressure in bar. I just want to know the water flow in terms of litres per minute to verify if it is fine with current setup or do I need to install a pressure booster pump.

I am attaching the manual of the machine that i am assuming that you are using. In page 19/26 , it says that you need between 1 - 10 atm of water pressure for satisfactory operation. It also gives you a useful data : 1atm = min 8 lpm. Btw, 1atm = 1bar ( approx ).

The problem i think is that your machine is located in an area where when the water reaches , after passing through a lot of bends, does not have enough pressure as specified in the manual.

I would suggest that you have a buffer tank of sufficient capacity placed at a suitable height above the machine which would provide you with sufficient flow.

My Samsung front loader and the "IFB lemon" before had suction pumps. Do bends really reduce water pressure? Maybe clogged plumbing?

In our case also the tank is 1 1/2 floors above the washing machine, and both our IFB and now LG work fine. Replacing the washing machine just die to water pressure problems is not a very prudent step to take, especially if your current machine works fine.

Your problem may be due to excessive loss in the lines. The best option you have is to run a dedicated water line from the overhead tank to the washing machine inlet. Terminate the line with a tap so that you can control the outlet. If the route is complicated then run a 25mm pipe instead of the normal 12mm/18mm., that will reduce the pressure drop. You can also use UPVC pipes instead of GI.

Yes, that is insanely high. Seems these are commercial kitchen style grates. Yeah I did see some but did not spend time doing some research on them. Need to check their specs and purchase a few that will seem the best fit.

Yeah need to check the building insurance. I really don't want to mess the burners but this grate height is just insane!

Well, the cooking does get done but I feel it takes a bit longer and surely wastes gas too - the handles of all the vessels become so hot that you have to use gloves. I think that is such a waste of energy.

Hi friends,

A strange query, -- I'm flummoxed by the behaviour of the turntable in my new Samsung MWO -- Sometimes it turns clockwise, at other times anticlockwise! I don't know yet how to predict which way it would turn when! Also, the rotation is not quite smooth, -- it keeps pausing momentarily before moving on again (this latter behaviour has been reported by others too)!

Are these normal behaviour for turntables in Samsung microwave ovens, or in general? Do I need to worry, and seek service? Thanks.

I must admit, in spite of having used microwave ovens for well over three decades, I have little experience with ones having turntables! My previous one, a GE, served me well for 30 years (believe it or not)! It had a mode stirrer, and produced uniform cooking, with no hot spots. I was quite surprised to find that I have to be careful about hot spots with my not-very-cheap modern Samsung "Smart Oven" with a turntable!
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I haven't noticed with my current LG oven, but I have seen this in the past, and would not be surprised. I think you can consider it normal. Would you want to predict it?

I would like to have a microwave without a turntable. I think Panasonic make one, but I can't find it available. They spray the microwaves around instead of turning the food. (Or something like that!)

As long the switch between CW and CCW for the turntable rotation does not happen within a given run cycle, this is totally acceptable. Not very uncommon. The relative AC phase in some motors can do that.

The CW and CCW rotations can occur in independent start/stop cycles.

I have seen momentary pauses too. If the pauses are consistent across the complete rotation, should be no cause to worry. However, if there are visible jerks in rotation, that may require some looking into.

Even our new LG high end oven behaves the same way. It has a mind of its own on when it will turn the table CW or CCW. And that mild steppy movement is also present. Guess it's something that the manufacturers have discovered will help with cooking and have designed it that way. I have faced no problem with cooking though.

With new LGs, I no longer trust them. I had a LG top washing machine for 12 years which was always in my bathroom & it worked just fine. Then I got a new LG top loader. Now the new one apparently isn't designed to work in humid conditions. I get a small shock when I touch parts of the plastic (like the soap tray) - it's brain dead design to make a washing machine which isn't 100% water proof. And LG knows how to make one - my previous washing machine is proof of that. Just that they chose not to make one. When I had to replace my Sharp Microwave a few months back, I chose a Samsung (my usual first preference used to be LG before for all home appliances).

It depends on where the motor stopped in the previous cycle. An AC synchronous motor can rotate any side given the one which has stronger magnetic induction and this is dictated by the position at which the last cycle stopped. And since the direction doesn't matter in an oven, manufacturers don't bother about employing techniques to make the turntable turn to any specific direction every time.