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
Microwaves are like TV waves or light waves you can’t see them, but you can see what they do
A magnetron in the micro- wave oven produces micro- waves The mrcrowaves 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
The ceramic bottom of your microwave oven lets mrcro- waves through Then they bounce off a metal floor, back through the ceramic bottom and are absorbed by the food
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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
Mrcrowaves 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 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.
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other, heat is made, like rub- bing your hands together. This is the heat that cooks.