• Vespair@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 个月前

        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.

    • Zekas@lemmy.world
      27·
      6 个月前

      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)

      • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
        203·
        6 个月前

        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.

        • PirateJesus@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          Don’t know how you’re getting down voted for this? This feature is going to be the new standard for microwaves.

    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 个月前

      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?

      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 个月前

        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.

      • nyctre@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 个月前

        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.

        • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
          1·
          6 个月前

          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

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 个月前

      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.

    • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 个月前

      Yup, some dishes absorb microwaves better than the food, so they absorb the majority of the energy.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      6 个月前

      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.

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          And yet oddly white bowls are the best right? Reflective!

          However my best plates currently that don’t heat up are also straight black…

          Materials matter folks. Just make sure they’re microwave safe and read the fine print that says they’re safe but not for longer than a minute at a time.

          I’m looking at you wheat grass bowl fads on Amazon.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      141·
      6 个月前

      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.

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          Nonsense, my good fellow. It is well known that excitation of the aether produces corpuscles of light. How else could we see the stars in the firmament?

          • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            6 个月前

            Until today I was certain that even the feeblest Intellect, or at any rate those capable of the written Composition of Speech, would be aware that Ocular Rays emitted by our Eyes, which, upon reflecting from external Matter, return Hermes-like to intelligence our Minds, are responsible for the Faculty of Vision; however, to my unfathomable Sorrow and Disappointment, your Missive of today (which has reached me most indisposed) illustrates that this was but a forlorn Hope.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      If you cook it on half power for twice as long, you can do one less thing (also IMO it tastes significantly better)

      • mostNONheinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 个月前

        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.

      • neo
        3·
        6 个月前

        Can you recommend something? I mostly I use crockery plates or glass containsers, which work, but can get pretty hot.

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        13·
        6 个月前

        Or just get an air fryer. Most things people make in the microwave can be made in an air fryer, and it almost always comes out leaps and bounds better.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          6 个月前

          It takes about 8 minutes minimum to cook anything from frozen in my air fryer, vs 1 or 2 in the microwave though. Sometimes the quality improvement is worth the extra time, but sometimes I just need my nuggies and I need em now.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      6 个月前

      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.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    397·
    6 个月前

    Literal child minded people.

    You are using an incredible machine. Press more buttons other then +30+30+30+30start

    • Fredy@lemmy.world
      13·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        10·
        6 个月前

        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.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 个月前

          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.

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
            1·
            6 个月前

            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

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
        82·
        6 个月前

        That’s because we use them for a) melting butter or b) heating soup

        They’re fucking awful for cooking

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          6 个月前

          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.

          • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
            2·
            6 个月前

            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

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
          11·
          6 个月前

          They are only awful for cooking if you don’t know when or how to use em.

      • thorbot@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 个月前

        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

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
          41·
          6 个月前

          Our microwaves would do it in ten seconds because we don’t have girly pink sequinned 110v electric

    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 个月前

      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?

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        10·
        6 个月前

        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.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
          2·
          6 个月前

          Surely the microwave manufacturer is to blame?

          Why should the popcorn manufacturer have to inform the user about a feature of someone elses product?

          • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
            4·
            6 个月前

            Because they’ll get a million complaints that say “I used the popcorn button and it lit my microwave on fire” when they try to pop a mini bag or something.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one
        7·
        6 个月前

        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

      • XTL@sopuli.xyz
        6·
        6 个月前

        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?

  • Franklin@lemmy.world
    28·
    6 个月前

    Lower the power setting and put it on for longer, it will usually give the center of time to warm up.

  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
    252·
    6 个月前

    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

    • neo
      51·
      6 个月前

      Genius! I can’t wait to get this recommended by Google’s LLM.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 个月前

      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.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    16·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
    101·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    4·
    6 个月前

    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.