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40v Makita Microwave Review. Yes… It’s a Battery Powered Microwave.


40v Makita Microwave Review. Yes… It’s a Battery Powered Microwave.




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33 Comments

  • ItsGermany

    Could be very useful In The field, but if you have power and a truck, why not just a normal plugged one? The batteries are generally reserved for tool use…

  • King-of-Plebss

    Someone is going to love this. But if you can afford this microwave and charging the batteries for it, you can probably just buy a small generator

  • Aukstasirgrazus

    USB port outputting 5 volts and 2.4 **amp hours**? So you can charge your average phone half-way just once and then it dies?

  • Lee1138

    So with this and the Makita coffee machine, you can heat up your breakfast burrito and have a cup of coffee on the go.

    And then not do any work, because all your batteries are dead….

  • anengineerandacat

    I don’t really get the purpose, the entire point of tool-based batteries is so that well… you can use your tools.

    I feel if you wanted to have food cooked / prepped on-site you would just bring a small generator which would let you charge those batteries + use a regular ole microwave and eat while charging.

    Win/Win.

    Checking for the battery prices too it doesn’t make a ton of sense, each of those looks to cost around $100… a small generator is like $150.

  • Deveak

    A solution looking for a problem at $1k+.
    I can get a cheap mechanical controlled microwave on eBay for 60-70 bucks that will run off a cheap modified sine wave inverter.

  • LordOfTrubbish

    I get who this is for on paper, but who is it actually for? Who is this person regularly heating food far enough away from a plug to warrant hauling around such a device, but unphased by the fact they apparently don’t have anywhere feasible to recharge things they may need to get their job done? I’m sure people could name some odd examples where this could come in handy, but who is the actual consumer with the batteries, money, space, and inclination to be dragging one of these around, and then recharging half a dozen of said batteries before the next work day? Hard to imagine your crew mates wont be spending all three minutes of that battery life dunking on the effort you’re putting into half a leftover big mac as well.

  • neverendingchalupas

    This isnt for people who work, its for rich assholes who take their entire house ‘camping.’ A jobsite is going to have a generator or temp power and a real microwave. And if you are working out in the middle of nowhere with battery tools people already have much cheaper power inverters portable microwave/stoves for their vehicles. And why buy a ridiculously expensive battery powered microwave when you are already bringing your coffee to work in a thermos that keeps it hot till around lunchtime.

  • cptmcsexy

    Gonna agree with everyone this is dumb, the price is over $1000 cad.

    If you want a mobile microwave youd probably achieve this at like 1/4 the cost by getting an inverter for your vehicle with a cheap 120v microwave.

  • Hagenaar

    This is coming from a heavy user of Makita Tools. This product screams of gimickry and one-upmanship on the jobsite or picnic area, without being particularly practical or necessary.
    Which means of course they’ll sell trillions of them.

  • Icy_Grapefruit2010

    That video is about 20 minutes longer than it needs to be. It’s 20minutes of someone microwaving stuff, and 5minutes of hey cool look at this.

  • ANewOof

    The grand son of the original inventor of the microwave is a misogynistic, abusive garbage human being. And he gets 10k checks every month from all of you.

    Don’t buy microwaves

    Shit technology that kills nutrients anyway.

  • RickDripps

    People are shitting all over this gimmick device. Why?

    Sure, it sucks if you drain all your tool batteries making your lunch. But that’s not the device’s stupidity now, is it?

    What if you’re like “I want to have hot soup for lunch every day and luckily, I’ve got a spare battery that I can bring to make that happen.” and then it’s fantastic.

    This is a way to cook a small amount of food without the need for any kind of fuel or generator. It’s not a “THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING” device but it just goes to highlight how the possibilities are endless when it comes to what tool batteries can do.

    I’m glad it exists. I’ll never buy one or need one. But I love the fact that this exists now.

  • demonoid_admin

    Men will literally buy a battery powered microwave and haul it to the jobsite before making a tuna sandwich in the morning.

  • mood_le

    This is intended for a job site & is probably great for that. Lots of places I work have no outlets or running electricity.

  • Drackar39

    It’s genius. You eat your lunch then you have to call it for the day because all your fucking batteries are dead.

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