Getting To Know Your; Microwave Oven; Oven; Getting To Know Your Microwave Oven - Whirlpool MHE11REB Use & Care Manual

Getting to Know Your
Microwave Oven
This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking. It also shows you the basics
you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information before you
use your oven
Do not store
microwave c
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HOW your microwi
Microwave ovens are safe. Microwab
energy is not hot. It causes food to ma
its own heat, and it's this heat that coo
the food.
Microwaves are like TV waves or ligl
waves. You cannot see them, but you
see what they do.
A magnetron in the microwave oven
produces microwaves. The microwave
move into the area under the oven floe
There they bounce off the mixing ante1
into the oven where they contact the fc
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ammable materials such as gasoline near the
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