Whirlpool MW32OOXS manual How your microwave oven works

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How your microwave oven works

Microwave ovens are safe, Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food.

Mode Mixer

Magnetron

Ceramic Bottom

Metal Floor

Microwaves are like TV waves or light waves. You can’t see them, but you can see what they do.

Microwaves pass through glass, paper and plastic with- out heating them so food ab- sorbs the energy. Microwaves bounce off metal pans so food does not absorb the energy.

A magnetron in the micro- wave oven produces micro- waves The microwaves move into the oven where they are scattered or stirred by a mode mixer (like a fan]. Microwaves bounce off metal oven walls and are absorbed by food.

Microwaves may not reach the center of a roast. The heat around the outside is what cooks the roast all the way through. This is one of the rea- sons for letting some foods (roasts, baked potatoes] stand for a while after cook- ing, or for stirring some foods during the cooking time.

The ceramic bottom of your microwave oven lets micro- waves through. Then they bounce off a metal floor, back through the ceramic bottom and are absorbed by the food.

The microwaves

disturb

 

water

molecules

in the

food.

As the

molecules

bounce

around

bumping

into

each

other, heat is made, like rub- bing your hands together. This is the heat that cooks.

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Contents Model MW32OOXS Contents Included with your oven. If the card is Before you install your microwave ovenBefore you use your microwave oven SAW These Instructions Microwave oven controls Using your microwave ovenCooking in your microwave oven Setting the controlsTo restart the oven Defrosting in your microwave ovenTo stop the oven Installing your microwave oven Installation instructionsElectrlcal shock RequirementsObserve all governlng codes and ordinances Bi-level cooking Clean&the microwave ovenCaring for your microwave oven Custom mounting your microwave ovenHow your microwave oven works Never Cook or Reheat a Whole EGG Operating safety precautionsKeep door closed 0 turn oven off If you need assistance% General InformationBefore Calling for assistance If you need setice? If you have a problemIf you need FSP replacement parts? WhirlJ?ool HoineA&pliinces