Howmicrowave ovens work
Microwave | ovens | are | safe Microwave | energy | IS not hot. It causes | food | to | ||
make 11sown | heat, | and | It’s this | heat that cooks | the food |
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Microwaves are llke TV waves or light waves You can’t see them but you can see what they do
MIcrowaves pass through glass, paper and plasllc wlthout heating them so tood
absorbs the energy Mlcro-
waves bounce off metal pans so food does not absorb the energy
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wave | oven | produces |
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move | into | the | oven | where | bounce | off | a metal | floor. | |||||
they | are scattered |
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by | a | mode | mixer | (like | a fan]. | bottom | and | are | absorbe | ||||
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metal oven walls and are |
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the center | of | a | roast | The | heat | water |
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around | the | outside | is what |
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cooks | the | roast | all | the | way | around | bumplng | Into | ec | |||||
through | This | IS one | of | the |
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reasons | for | letting | some |
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foods | (roasts, | baked |
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toes) stand for a while after |
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