Microwave Oven Shelf Bracket

How to Choose the Right
Microwave Oven Shelf Bracket

Microwave ovens are fast becoming the dream machine that can do it all and replace a bunch of appliances in your kitchen.

However, the transition is not complete, so we have to live with the microwave as well as a bunch of other appliances.

In such a crowded kitchen, the microwave may just occupy a lot of precious space. With Microwave shelf brackets, you can save this very space. These microwave wall shelf brackets can fit into some amazing places in the kitchen and save you decent space.

Several Things to Consider When Buying Microwave Oven Shelf Bracket

While looking for microwave shelf, you need to take care of many aspects:

Sturdiness

The most important aspect to look at is the sturdiness of the bracket. While its is a great idea to have your microwave on top of a bracket, the bracket itself needs to be strong enough to withhold the weight of the microwave and any food stuff you place on it for cooking.

Easy of Installation

While a sturdy bracket is a safe option in the kitchen, if it is too much of a hassle to fit it, it may not be worth the effort. This is because; an improperly fitted bracket is not of much use. It could collapse anytime.

Type of Microwave Shelf

Improvements Microwave Oven Shelf Bracket

This microwave shelf concept uses the free space on top of your stove range for holding the microwave. This is a great concept when it comes to looking for free space. This unit can fit on top of a standard stove and can hold up to 250 pounds of weight which is good enough for most modern microwaves.

Despite their fancy position on top of your range, they are pretty sturdy and can hold your microwave properly. If you don’t have a big enough microwave to occupy the whole space, you can place other space occupying stuff there.

With porcelain finished side supports and the stainless steel base, this microwave oven shelf bracket can fit into any kitchen in a classy fashion. With black and white color options, it would go with most ranges in any kitchen setup.

The only concern with this setup is the effect of heat from the stove affecting the microwave. Since this would rest directly on top of the range, the radiation from the stove may affect the bracket and/ or the microwave placed on top of it.

Proway Microwave Wall Shelf Bracket

This Chinese model takes a much simpler approach to the idea of microwave oven shelf bracket. This provides a regular bracket that is strong enough to hold a microwave oven on top of it. This has special feature of adjusting the length and depth. With this it can fit into any corner of your kitchen and hold a wide range of microwaves.

This unit can hold up to 40 kgs, which is a decent capacity given most modern microwaves fall within that weight range. The only part missing in this unit would be a base if you want to use it as a regular to hold other things.

Which to Pick?

Microwave shelf are great space saver additions in your kitchen. You can choose the complete unit from Improvements or go for a more simplistic Proway product.

The proway may not be classy, but it gives more flexibility while Improvements is more for kitchens that have room on top of their ranges.

Other than Microwave shelf you can consider Microwave Stand for your storage solution.

Don't forget to check on microwave drawer and Microwave Wall Shelf, which great idea for Saving the Counter Space.

We also have microwave oven carts for you to choose.

See tips in using Microwave Mounting Plate