Maybe if you have older electrical wiring you%26#39;d blow a fuse. Otherwise, I don%26#39;t know. I%26#39;ve never heard that at all. If that were true...half the breakfast serving restaurants would be ruined. It may be true if you plug both into the same outlet because you could overload the circuit, but I see no danger in operating both if they%26#39;re in two different outlets. says who? You can if your circuits will allow it. Both use a lot of current. They need to be on different "breakers" (fuses) so they will both work at the same time without flipping the breaker.
Start turning off brekers one by one and find out what outlets in your kitchen are on different breakers. I can. In your case, they probably both share a single circuit and the amount of current being pulled by the two devices is more than that circuit can handle. A microwave should really be on a dedicated circuit. My house wiring has a dedicated circuit for the microwave and two additional GFCI protected circuits for other appliances. That%26#39;s because typical microwave consumes about 1800 watts of power. At 120 volts, it is 15 amps. At the same time, a toster probably spends 1000 watts. That%26#39;s 7 amps.
If you connect them at the same time, they consume 22 amps.
Typical circuit breaker for home is rated either 15 amps or 20 amps. Either way, you exceed the allowed current, so the circuit breaker trips.
This is ONLY true if you connect them both to the outlets that leads to the SAME circuit breaker. BUT! Usually, all the sockets in the same room is connected to the same circuit breaker. That%26#39;s why. Because those two things draw more power than about anything in the home and half of the time they are plugged into the same outlet. This can cause a breaker to trip or in worse case , can cause a fire. Because nobody likes a ...Darn, I can%26#39;t think of a good joke.
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