Getting To Know Your Microwave-Convection Oven; How Microwave Cookingworks - Whirlpool GM8131XEB1 Use And Care Manual

Getting to Know Your
Microwave-Convection
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 microwave cooking works
Magnetron
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.
Oven cavity
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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