Whirlpool MW8650XS User Manual download pdf (Page 27)

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

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.

Mode Mixer

Magnetron

Ceramic Bottom

OvenlCavity

A magnetron in the micro-

wave oven produces micro-

waves. The microwaves

move into the oven where

they are scattered or stirred

by a mode mixer (like a fan]

Microwaves bounce off

metal oven walls and are

absorbed by food.

Microwaves may not reach

the center of a roast. The heat

around the outside is what

cooks the roast all the way

through. This is 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.

Metal Floor

The ceramic bottom of your

microwave oven lets micro-

waves through. Then they

bounce off a metal floor,

back through the ceramic

bottom and are absorbed

by the food.

The microwaves 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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