Getting To Know Your Microwave Hood Combination; Microwave Hood; Combination; How Microwave Cooking Works - Whirlpool MH7110XB 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 cooktop/countertop light . . . . 15
Microwave oven features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the bi-level cooking rack . . . . . . . . . 17
Control panel features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the exhaust fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using the Minute Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
How microwave cooking works
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Microwave ovens are safe.
Microwave
energy is not hot. It causes food to make its
Magnetron
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.
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Mixing 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.