Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven
This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking. It also shows you the basics you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information before you use your oven
Explosion Hazard
Do not store ammable materials such as gasoline near the microwave c !n.
Doing so cal esult in death, explosion, fire, or burns.
HOW your microwi ie oven works
Microwave ovens are safe. Microwab energy is not hot. It causes food to ma its own heat, and it’s this heat that coo the food.
Microwaves are like TV waves or ligl waves. You cannot see them, but you see what they do.
A magnetron in the microwave oven produces microwaves. The microwave move into the area under the oven floe There they bounce off the mixing ante1 into the oven where they contact the fc
Oven cavity
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