Double the time but put power at 60%. You’ll never get frozen lava again.
You’re welcome.
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
I will never understand this one. Like, at least respect yourself enough to think you deserve literal seconds worth of effort
Edit: maybe nobody has ever told you. Hey, you have value and worth. You’re deserving of good things and worthy of reasonable effort to achieve them.
My dude, I’m using a microwave. For meals I care even a little about I’m busting out the air fryer.
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.
I’ve looked and looked over the years, but no microwave I’ve ever owned as let me adjust the wattage, even though I’ve often seen this tip. Is this just an EU thing, or a bougie microwave thing?
No microwave I’ve seen has ever actually varied the wattage. It just essentially does pulse width modulation, so 60% power might be on (at full power) for 6 seconds and off for 4 seconds. It averages out to the desired power, but it’s not exactly the same as what it kind of implies.
I see, thank you for the explanation! I thought I was just stupid at microwaves.
Look up the manual for your current microwave. It may be able to, or it might have some programs that have varied levels of power. Some just don’t have the option, tho, so that might be why.
Thank you, I will definitely check! I don’t think I’ve ever actually bought a microwave, they’ve kinda just been in whatever house/apartment I’ve moved into, so that’s probably why it never occurred to me that that info was probably in the paperwork that came with the machine
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.
It might if you ask it if it’s sure, at which point it will continue completing the text with the correction.
Too spicy for the NES version
You reminded me of the old Joe Cartoon videos from the before YouTube times.
Gerbil in a Microwave (NSFW warning for cartoon violence)
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.
The reason there’s tons of buttons and settings is because it looks better on the showroom floor, especially when sitting next to other microwaves. Same goes for just about every appliance: They’re not made to work particularly well or last long, just look better than the other guy in a big-box store.
The fact that I can’t test drive an appliance before buying it is very frustrating.
I think a very simple design could look elegant if done right. But then you couldn’t sell it on who-gives-a-shit features. Automatic salmon cooking. In the microwave. What the actual fuck
That’s because we use them for a) melting butter or b) heating soup
They’re fucking awful for cooking
Chef Mike has his place. You just have to know what his strengths and weaknesses are. And not have a cheap ass piece of shit one, like most things, cheap usually means shit.
Kinda makes sense when the only "food* that doesn’t heat better in a pan or a convection oven is ultra-processed gash
Not very popular in most places
+1 for popcorn. Check out the silicone bowls like hotpop so you can use that melted butter!
TIL that Europe doesn’t have microwaves that transform bell pepper soup into boiling hot lava in 38.2 seconds. The bowl is untouchable too
Our microwaves would do it in ten seconds because we don’t have girly pink sequinned 110v electric
You fool, you know nothing of microwaves.
+30 automatically starts it.
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.
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?
Nope, I’m in Germany.
That’s interesting. Thanks.
POPCORN BUTTON!
But only if you have a microwave with sensor cook. If it asks you to put in the weight just follow the directions on the bag.
I make my popcorn in a pan on the stove
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.
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
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.
Who has less self control average Americans or average Russians?
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.
Whoops, definitely a typo but I like it
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!
Or put your bowl in another bowl and nuke the fuck out of it.
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
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
You can improve the effect by putting a couple of forks or metal chopsticks deep into the food before starting the microwave. This will help conduct the heat further down into the food during the cooking process.
Also, put a liberal sprinkling of pure silicon on top of your human food for human beings before placing it within your human consumption orifice.
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.
I haven’t had one in 4 years. The only thing I’d use it for at this point is to reheat coffee… Instead I just make a fresh cup now.
I do miss having a dishwasher though. Might get a little one.
Mini washers can be seriously noisy. Check the decibels first.
Cheers, haven’t had one yet
Just throw it in a skillet. It’s fast and almost always better.
You office has a community oven and skillet?
What’s an office?
Finally, a civilized yank that understands how to make tea the correct way.
I think the hamster has a better chance in the microwave
Edit: stupid spelling
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If the food is firm enough to stay in place, move it to the edges ie. make a bowl made of the food in your bowl.
Offset the bowl from centre.
Ran across this video some time ago. Good (while cheeky) breakdown on some microwaving basics.
Of course it’s internet Shaquille
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