HOW MICR- | OVENS WORK |
Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave energy is not hot. It causes make its own heat. and its this heat that cooks the food.
Mode Mixer | Magqetron |
food to
Bottom
Oven’Cavity | I | |
Metal Floor | ||
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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 without heating them so food absorbs the energy. Micro- waves bounce off metal pans so food does not absorb the energy.
A magnetron produces microwaves. The microwaves move into the oven where they are scattered around by a stirrer (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 reasons for letting some foods (roasts, baked pota- toes) stand for a while after cooking, or for stirring some foods during the cooking time.
The bottom of your micro- wave oven lets micro- waves through. Then they bounce off the metal floor, back through the bottom, and are ab- sorbed 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.
THE MICROWAVE OVEN LIGHT
The light in the microwave oven comes on when the door is open, when a cooking
time is set, when the oven is on, and when the temperature probe is plugged into its socket.
To replace the light bulb:
1.Move range away from the wall. Be very careful. It is heavy.
2.Unplug the power cord.
3.Remove holding screw on access panel.
4.Remove the cardboard baffle from the bulb.
5.Replace the bulb with a
6.Replace the cardboard baffle and the ac-
cess panel. | Access Panel |
7.Plug in the power cord and move the range back into position.
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