Getting To Know Your Microwave Hood Combination; How Microwave Cooking Works - Whirlpool MH61lqXB Use And Care Manual

Getting to Know Your
Microwave Hood
Combination
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.
In This Section
Page
Page
How microwave cooking works.. ...... .8
Using the cook-top/countertop
Mlcrowave oven features
light .....................................................
15
................. 10
Control panel features 11
Using the bi-level cooking rack ........ 17
......................
Using the exhaust fan 14
Setting the clock ................................ 18
.......................
Using the Minute Timer.. ................... 19
How microwave cooking 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.
Magnetron
Mlxing antenna
Oven cavity
A magnetron in the microwave oven
produces microwaves. The microwaves
move into the area under the oven floor.
There they bounce off the mixing antenna
into the oven where they contact the food.