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
use your oven.
Explosion
Hazard
Do not store flammable
materials
such as gasoline
near the
microwave
oven.
Doing so can result in death, explosion,
or fire.
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
Magnetron
produces microwaves.
The microwaves
I
move into the oven where they contact
food as it turns on the turntable.
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Oven cavity
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