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Someone has NEVER used the power setting before…
Microwave: just for that, I’m giving it to you BOTH too hot and too cold
Western society if their citizens knew how to use the power setting:
People really don’t know how to use a microwave.
They think the timer is everything.
That is like cooking everything in the oven at 450F.
Tbf most microwaves are designed in a dumb way where half power means turning on the magnetron to max power anyway just for half the time, with something like 20 second on cycles. They’re like putting food into the oven to 450F but pulling it out every so often.
Pretty sure that is how all of them work and it is perfectly fine. Stopping the blast of energy frequently lets the heat evenly distribute while cooking to keep any part from overcooking.
Panasonic owns the patent for an inverter microwave that can actually do 50% power.
With inverters being common in solar installations and electric cars, it would seem that someone else could just put that part in a microwave, but fortunately the patent prevents that.
It’s nice to know that although I can’t buy the model of microwave that I want with the features I want, at least a single company can prevent everyone else’s progress and even make a tiny bit of extra profit at the same time.
Seriously, is it really that fucking difficult for the average person to understand how the power setting works? My microwaved food comes out evenly-heated every time, because I’m not a fucking idiot.
It would help if most of them didn’t completely cheap out on the power modulation. Most of them do this half assed PWM over like 10 seconds, so they’re on at max power or off, which to be fair is a pretty unintuitive way to cook for most people. It would be much better if they just put out some fraction of full power continuously. It makes much more sense and removes the annoying complexity. Some microwaves do it but they’re few and far between.
skill issue
Most definitely. Learn what the power button on the microwave does, and use it every time you heat up food. The only time you should ever leave it at the default of 100%/10/HIGH is when you’re boiling water.
Do you actually boil water in the microwave?
No but a lot of people do. I have a coffee machine.
I’ve largely moved to using the air fryer / toaster oven to heat things up, but the biggest “life hack” for microwaving is doubling the time and halving the power. That, and stirring halfway through.
Also get one that says “inverter” in the marketing(all microwaves have an inverter, but what they usually mean is it varies the power with a variable inverter, instead of just turning on for 5 seconds and then off for 5 seconds when at 50% power)
