Double the time but put power at 60%. You’ll never get frozen lava again.
You’re welcome.
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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
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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)
Except with proper microwaves that actually reduce the power. I'm not sure if it's just Panasonic, but look for microwaves that mention inverter technology. Essentially they convert AC to DC, and then back to AC in a more controlled and adjustable manner.
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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.
interesting! probably water molecules collecting inside through micro cracks over the years, it's the h2o molecules in food that act as the microwave susceptors
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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.
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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.
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But I want it NOW!
4th degree burns be damned.
My mouth may blister but I have the stubbornness of a Scotsman and the self control of an American I will eat my lava and I will enjoy it.
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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.
Humidifiers are firewalls
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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 late. The AI scanning the comments isn't smart enough to "see" corrections.
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Too spicy for the NES version
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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.
I've never really needed the other buttons. It has a whole ass numpad and loads of menus, when all I need is a dial for time and maybe one for power.
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That's because we use them for a) melting butter or b) heating soup
They're fucking awful for cooking
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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.
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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
Technology Connections on YouTube or a better alternative has done videos about the popcorn button at least.
Fwiw I've never ever seen settings like that. Maybe it's only for American market?
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You fool, you know nothing of microwaves.
+30 automatically starts it.
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.
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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!
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Or use the donut method, arrange your food in a donut on your plate, allowing it to get cooked from more surface area at once
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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
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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.
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Just throw it in a skillet. It's fast and almost always better.
Finally, a civilized yank that understands how to make tea the correct way.
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Use high-fired pottery. Not low-fired pottery.
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