Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven
This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking. It also shows the basics that you need to know in order to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information before using your oven.
HOW YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN WORKS
Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its own heat, and it is this heat that cooks the food.
Microwaves are like TV waves, radio waves, or light waves. You cannot see them, but you can see the results of what they do.
A magnetron in the microwave oven produces microwaves. The microwaves move into the oven where they contact food as it turns on the turntable.
The glass turntable of your microwave oven lets microwaves pass through. The microwaves then bounce off a metal floor, back through the glass turntable, and are absorbed by the food.
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Microwaves pass through most glass, paper, and plastics
without heating them, so food absorbs the energy. Microwaves bounce off metal containers so food does not absorb the energy.
RADIO INTERFERENCE
Using your microwave oven may cause interference to your radio, TV, or similar equipment. When there is interference, you can reduce it or remove it by:
•Cleaning the door and sealing surfaces of the oven.
•Adjusting the receiving antenna of the radio or television.
•Moving the receiver away from the microwave oven.
•Plugging the microwave oven into a different outlet so that the microwave oven and receiver are on different branch circuits.
FOR THE BEST COOKING RESULTS
•Always cook food for the shortest cooking time recommended. Check to see how the food is cooking. If needed, touch Add 30 Sec while the oven is operating, or after the cooking cycle is over (see the “Add 30 Sec” section).
•Stir, turn over, or rearrange the food being cooked about halfway through the cooking time for all recipes. This will help ensure that the food is evenly cooked.
•If you do not have a cover for a dish, use wax paper, or
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