Hacking a microwave oven

1st of all, I'm not an electronics hobbyist. I'm a cooking hobbyist.I have a problem which involves electronics and I am far too unmotivated to learn for myself all about electronics.So maybe somebody here can solve the problem.

This is the problem. I have not managed to find a convection microwave oven which allows me independent control over the 3 functions, microwave power, oven temperature, and grill temperature. But that is what I want to do, set my own values for the 3 variables. That will make the oven much more useful to me.

So I'm hoping that somebody here can help me out, either by hacking a microwave oven for me to give me the independent controls, for which, obviously, I will pay you; or by telling me if there is a business operating in the Sydney/Wollongong area that does that sort of thing for a living.

 

Isn't it possible to make a separate controller unit for each function? I really mainly just want to control the oven temperature while the microwave does its work.
I can't see why you think that microwaves are lethal. I'm not planning to run it with the door open.

 

When I take the housing off a microwave oven it seems to have a separate wire running to the magnetron from what runs to the griller and the heating element. So what I am envisaging doing is leaving that wire and circuitry intact but adding a controller for each of the other 2 components. I really can't see why that would be a hazardous arrangement. I can't even see it overloading a domestic circuit with a 1 kW magnetron and 1 1/2 kW oven operating together.
Personally, I think the design of the microwave oven is hopeless. All of them have the magnetron operating from the side of the cavity so that cooking proceeds in a lateral fashion. If it was located so that it is beaming at an angle into the cavity I am sure it would work better just as a microwave.
And if you could control the oven temperature and the griller beyond the presets that the manufacturers allowed, you would have a much more versatile instrument to play with in the kitchen.

 

Actually, I have discovered that it doesn't produce even cooking by virtue of cooking a tofu tart using a microwave. The outsider was cooked before the centre was done. The same problem occurs if you are cooking a cake using a microwave (yes, why would you do that?.... Why wouldn't you do that?).
That is why I think that beaming in the microwaves from an angle would be an instant improvement.


So how would I go if I bought 2 microwave ovens and disconnected the grill and the oven function on one, then just ripped the controller out of the other and used that controller, by wiring it into the grill and the oven element to provide me with my semi-independent controls. I'm guessing that my biggest risk would be just blowing the houses fuse. I'm also guessing that the magnetron might not work so well as it gradually heats up from the ovens temperature via conduction through the body.

 

Yes. I know. But none allow me independent control of the 3 functions. They are all on presets.