Whirlpool MW7500XW manual HowYourMicrowaveOvenWorks

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HowYourMicrowaveOvenWorks

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.

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

Mode mixe!

Magnetron

 

A magnetron in the microwave oven produces

 

microwaves. 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.

 

Oven cavity

 

Glass turntable

 

The glass turntable of your microwave oven lets

 

microwaves through. Then they bounce off a metal

 

floor, back through the glass turntable and are

 

absorbed by the food.

Metal

f&or

 

Microwaves pass through glass, paper and most

 

plastics without heating them so food absorbs the

 

energy. Microwaves bounce off metal pans so food

 

does not absorb the energy.

Microwaves may not reach the center of a roast. The heat around the outside is whal cooks the roast all the way through. This is one of the reasons for letting some foods (roasts, baked potatoes) stand for a while after cooking, or for stirring some foods during the cooking time.

The microwaves disturb water molecules in the food. As the molecules bounce around bumping into each other, heat is made, like rubbing your hands together. This is the heat that does the cooking.

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