Getting
to Know Your
Microwave
Oven
This section discusses
the concepts
behind microwave
cooking, tt also shows you the basics you need to
know to operate your microwave
oven. Please read this information
before you use your microwave
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's this heat that cooks the food.
Microwaves
are like TV waves or light waves. You
cannot see them, but you can see 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.
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Magnetron
Oven cavity
The glass turntable
of your microwave
oven lets
microwaves pass through.
Then they bounce
off a
metal floor, back through the glass turntable,
and
are absorbed
by the food.
Metal floor
Glass turntable
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