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plantfanaticHave a microwave with a steam sensor perfectly cooked food everytime.
neuracnuMine works really well on sensor reheat unless it’s soup, then it’s gonna boil it dry after exploding it all over like a crime scene.
Problem with sensor microwaves is that they still blast the food at full power when you use the Sensor Cook setting, and I don’t know of any microwave that lets you reduce the power by half when in Sensor Cook, resulting uneven heating regardless. They’re usually just a one button operation. I need finer control!
What? That’s why you have 9 different options, they are different power levels and cooking times to adjust for that stuff.
Most run at 50% for around 3-5 minutes. It can’t cook it unevenly, it only stops when it detects moisture, sounds like you just had a faulty or fake one.
DigitLet’s make one side too hot and the other side too cold. Everybody happy!
They think the timer is everything.
That is like cooking everything in the oven at 450F.
Tbf most microwaves are designed in a dumb way where half power means turning on the magnetron to max power anyway just for half the time, with something like 20 second on cycles.
Pretty sure that is how all of them work and it is perfectly fine. Stopping the blast of energy frequently lets the heat evenly distribute while cooking to keep any part from overcooking.
Panasonic owns the patent for an inverter microwave that can actually do 50% power.
With inverters being common in solar installations and electric cars, it would seem that someone else could just put that part in a microwave, but fortunately the patent prevents that.
It’s nice to know that although I can’t buy the model of microwave that I want with the features I want, at least a single company can prevent everyone else’s progress and even make a tiny bit of extra profit at the same time.
But my microwave does this?
This is real data from my LG microwave just now. The first peak is at 100% power, the second peak is 30% power, the last three peaks are 10% power.
You can see that under 30% it has to cycle the inverter on and off like old microwaves, but still it’s way better than doing that at 100%.
I love my inverter microwave, I feel like I’m living in the future. Bought this thing like 4 years ago 🤷♂️
Panasonic does sometimes licence the patent to other companies. I would love an inverter microwave, but they aren’t made with the other features I want.
What app is that?
Fair enough.
It’s the emporia app, I installed whole home monitoring in my breaker panel. It’s occasionally useful, expensive, but I’ve had it long enough to make it worth it in my mind 🤷♂️
Very fancy.
I’ve been using Home Assistant with data from a house battery, but that does look to be a much cheaper option if you don’t have or want a house battery.
I need to get into home assistant, eventually. It’s on my list
Seriously, is it really that fucking difficult for the average person to understand how the power setting works?
It would help if most of them didn’t completely cheap out on the power modulation. Most of them do this half assed PWM over like 10 seconds, so they’re on at max power or off, which to be fair is a pretty unintuitive way to cook for most people. It would be much better if they just put out some fraction of full power continuously. It makes much more sense and removes the annoying complexity. Some microwaves do it but they’re few and far between.
Wait until you find out how drives and ovens work.
TrackinDaKrakenMy only interface complaint with my current microwave is that the turntable doesn’t do a full revolution in an even amount of time. That is, it takes about nine seconds to do a full revolution, but since I put the food in for one minute, or some number of 30-second intervals, the bowl, or cup always ends up away from the front of the oven, so I need to reach in to get it. What’s needed is a variable speed drive that ensures the cup always comes back to the same point at which you put it in, regardless of time.
But, really, I’d put up with almost anything for a microwave that lasted 20 years, like my old microwave did.
Until this day I assumed that everyone put their food in the centre of the turntable, where presumably the cooking power is most concentrated. But now I know that people like you exist.
Well, then you presumed poorly, because it cooks better along the outside.
Put it in the back of the microwave, then it’s at the front when you take it out.
schnurritoThis what-if.xkcd.com/131/ should be helpful to everyone who has these kinds of problems.
I’ll give the microwave a pass. It doesn’t heat up food evenly but all You have to do is stir it half way through. It’s not like You can heat up anything on the stove without stirring.
While on the subject. I have a microwave, electric oven combo. I can use it both to heat things up quickly and to bake. It takes space for only one allowance and is smaller than an average oven so it heats up quicker and I could fit one more drawer into my kitchen. I’m always wondering why they aren’t more popular. Whenever I tell people about it, they are surprised that a thing like that exists.
Just wait 2 minutes after it dings, then the heat spreads through the food evenly.
I’ve never lived in a society where a microwave is used for anything other than heating things up—all be it, poorly.
Then I hear of people in some countries use themi cook. What a waste your time, food, and mone?
In the apocalypse; Microwavers.are.day 1 done at best.
My wife learning about inverter microwave models was one of the greatest upgrades in our kitchen when the old microwave went out. The shorter pulses for power reduction is such a game-changer over something that puts burning the fuck out of your food on a temporary pause.
90s at 70%, 45s at 50%, then 45-90s at 30% gives us perfectly hot milk that doesn’t boil over and no skin ring that’s been baked on the inside of our mugs.
My hotplate recently broke, but I successfully used the microwave yesterday to make a simple syrup without relying on short bursts and frequent stirring breaks.
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Wait more than two seconds after the microwave dings before cramming it down your gullett and maybe the temperature will be a little more even.
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ObiniceIt seems as if there’s a large chunk of multiple generations that were never taught by their guardians and teachers how to use a microwave properly.
You wouldn’t use an oven the same way as a frying pan and expect the same results. Microwaves are great for some things and not for others, and can easily heat things through evenly.
It’s not the fault of people who don’t know though, it’s a fault of their educators.
Boomers:
skill issue
Most definitely. Learn what the power button on the microwave does, and use it every time you heat up food. The only time you should ever leave it at the default of 100%/10/HIGH is when you’re boiling water.
Microwave: just for that, I’m giving it to you BOTH too hot and too cold
Avid AmoebaSensor Reheat
I’m gonna ignore all the microwave oven cook experts comments and just be blunt. They don’t do it like they used to anymore, I feel you OP.
mlgSomeone has NEVER used the power setting before…
I’m alway running it at full power. Doesn’t decreasing the power just slow the whole process down?