How Your Microwave - Whirlpool MW8100XR0 Use & Care Manual

How your microwave oven works
Microwave ovens are safe Microwave energy is NOt hot It causes food to make ffs own
heat, and it's this heat that cooks the food
Mode Mixer Magnetron
Oven Cavity
Ceramic Bottom
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Metal Floor
Microwaves are like TV
waves or light waves You
can't see them but you can
see what they do
Microwaves pass through
glass, paper and plastic with-
out heating them so food ab-
sorbs the energy Microwaves
bounce off metal pans so
food does not absorb the
energy
A magnetron in the m_cro-
wave oven produces m_cro-
waves The m_crowaves
move into the oven where
they are scattered or stirred
by a mode mixer (like a fan).
Microwaves bounce off
The ceramic boMom of your
mJcrowave oven lets micro-
waves through Then they
bounce off a metal floor,
back through the ceramic
bottom and are absorbed
by the food.
metal oven wails and are
absorbed by food
Microwaves may not reach
the center of a roast The heat
around the outside _swhat
cooks the roast all the way
through This Js one of the rea-
sons for letting some foods
[roasts, baked potatoes]
stand for a while after cook-
ing, or for stirring some foods
during the cooking time
The m_crowaves disturb
water molecules in the food.
As the molecules bounce
around bumping into each
other, heat is made, like rub-
bing your hands together.
This is the heat that cooks.
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