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Getting
to Know Your
Microwave
Oven
This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking and introduces you to the
basics you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information
before use.
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 1 II waves or light
waves. You cannot see them, but you can
see what they do.
Glass turntable
Metal floor
A magnetron
in the microwave oven
produces microwaves.
The microwaves
move into the oven where they contact food
as it turns on the glass turntable.
Your microwave oven has the Whirlpool
patented Double Emission System,
which
releases microwaves from two locations (one
above food and one at bottom of food).
Because the microwaves enter the oven at
two different times, a third wave of micro-
waves is created. This gives you uniform
cooking.
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.
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