HOW MICROVKVE | OVENS WORK |
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Microwave ovens | are safe. Microwave | energy is not hot. It causes food to |
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make its own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food. | Bottom | ||
| Mode Mixer | Magnetron | |
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Mrcrowav?s are lrke TV waves or light waves You can’t see them but you can see what they do
Micr0wavt.s pass throuyh glass. paper and plastio wrthout heotlng them SC rood absorbs th? energy’ Macro- waves bounce 3ff rneta! pans so food doss not absorb the enerqv
Oven Cavity
A magnetron produces
mrcrowaves The microwaves move into the oven where they are scattered around by a stirrer (like a fan)
Mrcrowaves 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.
Metal Floor
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 bv the food.
The microwaves | disturb | |
water | molecules | in the food |
As the | molecules | bounce |
around | bumplng | into each |
other, heat is made. like rub- bing your hands together Thus IS the heat that cooks
BI-LEVEL OVEN RACK
{se the ISLevel Oven Rack to stack foods when cooking in more than one container
The rack can be turnea
First Position: Use the rack only when heating more than one container of food.
Do not let a container touch the top of the oven.
Second Position: Turn rack
CLEANING THE RACK
l Wash by hand with a mild detergent.
lWash on the top rack of a dishwasher.
l Do not use abrasive scrubbers or cleansers
SPECIAL CAUTIONS
l Put food in containersthen place con- tainers on rack.
l Do not cook foods directly on rack without putting them in containers first.
l Do not use with browning dish.
l Use only in the microwave oven.
l Do not let food or container touch the top of the oven.
l Do not store rack in the oven.
l Use only when cooking foods in more than one container.
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