If your food is unevenly heated it's probably because you need to adjust the cook time and power settings. Heating it longer at a lower power setting will let the heat spread more evenly.
Alternatively, check your microwave's wattage. I always have to adjust microwave instructions to be about 10% longer because my apartment's microwave is weaker than companies assume the standard microwave is.
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Except the food has localized concentrations of oil, fat or water or differences on overall density.
That's why you lower the power. Leave enough time for entropy to distribute the heat before dumping more energy into the food. The more heterogenous the food is, the more you need to lower the power (down to maybe even 200-400 W for mixed leftovers). And make sure all your foodstuffs are touching each other to allow heat to homogenize.
You're using it wrong. Respectfully 😁
Thank you for sharing this! I remember liking America's Test Kitchen and I'm commenting in hopes that I remember to watch this later when I'm able to. I'm already a big fan of using different power levels, though, which I'm guessing this is about. I wish more people would give it a shot and learn how to use it (and other little 'tricks') well!
If you like America's Test Kitchen and also tools (maybe a stretch, I know). You'll like Project Farm.
Ooh, I do! I'll check it out, thank you! I appreciate it :)
I'll bet 99% of the people who bitch bout this only use HI power .
This is because all microwaves have terrible UI/UX. If you are supposed to use less than 100% then why do I have to hit 9 buttons every time I want to use less than 100% power? And only 1 button to use 100% power for a variety of different settings.
Why is it not you hit Cook, then enter Power, then enter time? Like every single other stove in existence
In the kitchen it hums with delight,
A mischievous microwave, quite a sight.
With a twist of its dial, a dance begins,
Uneven warmth, where chaos wins.
People who have inverter microwaves, do they actually heat food more evenly or is it just marketing buzz?
Don't all microwave ovens have an inverter? Like, isn't that the thing that produces the photons?
No, that's the magnetron. Normal microwave magnetrons have 2 power settings, on and off, and reducing the microwave's power just means switching the magnetron on and off at different intervals.
An inverter just allows to keep the magnetron running at a lower power. Whether that has a better effect than just on/off-switching the magnetron I do not know, but it's probably more energy efficient over long usage periods.