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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 usa your microwave oven.
HOW your microwave
oven works
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.
A magnetron
in the microwave oven produces
microwaves.
The microwaves
move into the oven
where they contact food as it turns on the
turntable.
Magnetron
/
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Oven cavity
The glass turntable of your microwave oven lets
microwaves
pass through. Then they bounce off a
me,.ai floor, back through the glass turntable, and
are absorbed by the food.
Metal floor
Glass turntable
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