Double the time but put power at 60%. You’ll never get frozen lava again.
You’re welcome.
No way. My microwave has a single button. "Add 30 seconds". Anything else is just decoration.
I just roll the dice and use the reheat button. 90% of the time it works every time
Reason this is good is because the power setting really only affects how often the magnetron switches on and off (usually easy to hear). Lower power = more time off. Many microwave foods say to let it rest for a few minutes, this integrates that into the process(but they're all different so do experiment)
I've looked and looked over the years, but no microwave I've ever owned as let me adjust the wattage, even though I've often seen this tip. Is this just an EU thing, or a bougie microwave thing?
cold food hot bowl is a direct sign of not having good microwaveable dishes.
My in laws have this white corelle stuff that swears it's microwave safe on the bottom but it gets hot as fuck when you reheat food. i don't think it's just because it's thin either if you try to melt butter in it the dishes get very hot.
The glass bentgo containers i use for storing food seem to be completely invisible to the microwaves. You can get food bubbling hot and still grab the glass container to pull it out and it's completely cool.
cold food hot bowl is a direct sign of not having good microwaveable dishes.
I've noticed some dishes degrade over time as well. I have some coffee cups that were fine for years, but nowadays if I microwave one for a minute I might as well be grabbing a motorcycle tailpipe when I go to take it out.
Yup, some dishes absorb microwaves better than the food, so they absorb the majority of the energy.
Did y'all know that microwaves aren't magic and you need to mix your food?
Also, you might want to double check what your bowl is made of, and that it's a microwave safe material. If the bowl is getting dramatically hotter than the food like that, the power is being absorbed by the bowl instead of being evenly distributed like neutral microwave-safe materials would.
In a microwave oven, an assembly of cyprium, aluminium, and ferrum-impregnated clay is energized in such a way as to excite the aetheric medium, producing a beam of invisible energy which induces sympathetic vibrations in certain particulates in various solid and liquid foods, which results in heating of the food material.
But tell me again how it's not magic.
You do need to mix your food, but microwaves are obviously magic.
microwaves aren't magic
Well, any sufficiently advanced technology...
If you cook it on half power for twice as long, you can do one less thing (also IMO it tastes significantly better)
The trick is not microwaving everything at 100% power, but for a longer time instead
Or just get a better microwave safe container?
Cooking for longer on a lower power setting will still save your food from being an over microwaved mess even with a better dish to cook it in. Lower power for longer results in more even heating across all the food and tends not to dry things out so drastically.
Also, add water. How much depends on the food. Water is opaque to microwaves, so it absorbs them extremely readily and thus heat up. If you have wifi that shuts down when a shower is going, that's why.
I hate that
I end up burning my hand and my hamster is still fucking wet
Lmao but...
Obligatory, do not do this, this is a joke, hamsters do not do well in microwaves.
(Somewhere a kid is reading this thinking it's a good idea)
Too spicy for the NES version
You reminded me of the old Joe Cartoon videos from the before YouTube times.
Gerbil in a Microwave (NSFW warning for cartoon violence)
Literal child minded people.
You are using an incredible machine. Press more buttons other then +30+30+30+30start
I feel attacked
Wait till you find out that in Europe a lot of microwaves still only have two dials you turn, 0 buttons or only the very basic of buttons alongside.
You fool, you know nothing of microwaves.
+30 automatically starts it.
My microwave has a popcorn setting.
Every microwavable popcorn I ever bought said on the package not to use that setting.
Same with all the others: What the fuck does the Pizza setting actually do?Olde time microwaves had a moisture sensor inside which allowed them to sense when popcorn was done popping, automatically. Really fancy ones have a microphone, and will listen for when the popping is done.
But lots of microwaves literally just throw on a popcorn button that's just some arbitrary preset time duration. These do not get consistent result, and as such, popcorn makers just tell people to not use the feature at all as they can't guarantee results.
In almost all microwaves, the control circuitry or mechanical switches only ever switch 2-3 power circuits: motor+fan(+bulb sometimes separately) and the heating (transformer+diode+capacitor+magnetron) high voltage circuit. It can therefore only switch the heat between 0 and max, usually in a slow (15-30s period) PWM cycle (that hopefully does not coincide with the tray rotation period). The inputs can be manual only, or sometimes there is also a scale, moisture sensor and microphone, along with thermal fuses for safety.
I think the pizza setting is just generic medium one with short 50% cycles to allow the heat to spread. The popcorn setting can be much more interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
Lower the power setting and put it on for longer, it will usually give the center of time to warm up.
"center of time", that sound vaguely poetic. :)
We're always in the center of time. Half way between the past and future.
Whoops, definitely a typo but I like it
Some of you need to learn to turn down the power on your microwave and cook your food for longer, it results in a more even temp across the whole plate and won’t dry things out as easily.
Simply increase the instructions cook time by the inverse ratio of microwave radiation absorption coefficients for both energy levels!
Or put your bowl in another bowl and nuke the fuck out of it.
Easy solution to this is to put your food in an aluminium container before you heat it. Food is hot and bowl is not hot because it’s gone
Genius! I can't wait to get this recommended by Google's LLM.
You can improve the effect by putting a couple of forks or metal chopsticks deep into the food before starting the microwave. This will help conduct the heat further down into the food during the cooking process.
Also, put a liberal sprinkling of pure silicon on top of your human food for human beings before placing it within your human consumption orifice.
Learning how to use the "power level" feature of a microwave is actually helpful here.
So like with an range oven I don't try to bake banana bread at 550 degrees F.
So dump the power level down some and divide the task into two or three heatings and then stir in between.
Always surprised how many people evidently don't know how to use a microwave. They are, like many things, useful if you use them right.
Just throw it in a skillet. It's fast and almost always better.
You office has a community oven and skillet?
What's an office?
Finally, a civilized yank that understands how to make tea the correct way.
I think the hamster has a better chance in the microwave
Edit: stupid spelling
Use high-fired pottery. Not low-fired pottery.
If the food is firm enough to stay in place, move it to the edges ie. make a bowl made of the food in your bowl.
Offset the bowl from centre.
Ran across this video some time ago. Good (while cheeky) breakdown on some microwaving basics.
Of course it's internet Shaquille
Wet a paper towel and place it over the whole plate
