Whirlpool MW3500XS 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 heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food.

Mode Mixer Magnetron

Oven Cavity

food to make its own

Ceramic Bottom

,

Metal Floor

Miciowaves 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 wails and are absorbed by food.

Microwaves may not reach the center of a roast. The heat around the outside is what cooks the roast ail 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	info	each

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

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Contents Model MW35OOXS Parts and features ContentsBefore you install your microwave oven Before you use your microwave ovenGrounding Instructions found on Read and follow Operating Safety Precautions starting onStallation Instructions found on Command pads Using your microwave ovenDigital display/clock and indicator lights Microwave oven controlsAudible signals Setting the clockCooking at high cook power Cooking in your microwave ovenChanging the cooking time Lower cook powersDQWI-I Percentage lo%, 50%, 80%, etcTouch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want Touch Starit Count dQWI-IChanging cook power DefrostingChanging or adding defrost time Standing time or cooking automatically after defrostingAbout the Quick Defrost Cycle For cooking automatically after defrostingCooking in more than one cycle at one or more cook powers ‘... EliIOn next BEEP@P@BE@ Hints for cooking wifh more than one cyclePut cooked, hot food in oven and close door Using Keep WarmTo automatically follow another cycle Touch Keepwarm Touch StartMinute timer Touch Cook Power Touch 0 Number Pad Touch StartDelayed start Touch In the cooking ttme and Cook Power On nextTo double check sefflngr while the oven Is running Other operating hintsExtra Information To stop the oven while lt Is funningInstalling your microwave oven Installation instructions’i.~.‘~~.~~.~.C~.~.~ Observe all governing codes and ordinances Grounding InstructionsElectrical requirements ROpw5jCustom mounting your microwave oven Cleaning the microwave ovenCaring for your microwave oven Bi-level cookingHow your microwave oven works Operating safety precautions Contlnued on nextKeep door closed 0 turn oven oft Before calling for assistance General InformationIf you need assistance% If you need service If you have a problemPage WHIRl.Pool wu Pavfop