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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
The trick is to never use 100% power. It depends on what I'm heating, but I rarely go over 50% on my 1kW microwave.
Double the time and half the power. Since food in microwaves heats from the outside in, you have to have it duty cycle so the heat can move inwards without overheating the outside.
Every cooking method heats from the outside in to be honest
The difference is that microwaves instantly penetrate about an inch deep while heat from an oven takes time to flow there from the outer shell. With an oven, the heating power is concentrated on the outer skin, and some of it is wasted through convection
microwaves penetrate about an inch deep
Micro gang rise up (not much tho)
If you put a piece of tinfoil in the middle of what you are microwaving. The tinfoil keeps the center hot and the temperature even.
Works with forks too
Forks are generally fine.
Electroboom did a video on microwaves and even with foil in multiple shapes, he had an extremely hard time getting an arc.
This is a shot from Shazam staring Sinbad as the Genie. Great movie, used to watch it all the time in school holidays.
Not today, Mandela.
It's spelt Mandala here
Lower Watt, increase time.
I wish inverter type microwaves were standard. The vast majority of residential microwave ovens only modulate on like a 10 second interval. So you put it on power setting 3 or 30 and it will pump out full power for 3 seconds then off for 7 seconds. This works for things like defrosting meat, but a bunch of foods will still start popping and drying out in those few seconds. Inverter microwaves modulate many times a second so they can warm much more fragile foods without searing them.
Or just don't cook things in a raggedy bitch microwave. Use a grill, stove, oven, or whatever other better tools for the job.
Them: I wish microwaves were better
You: don’t use crappy microwaves then!
Yes
Yes, but some times the popping is just the food unfreezing. If the food is not burning and staying cold at the same time, then do nothing.
Yep. Same reason you don't run your conventional oven at max for most food types.