How your microwave oven works
Mtcrowave heat, and ovens are safe Microwave energy It�s this heat that cooks the food
Mode Mixer
IS not hot
It causes
food
to make
Its own
Magnetron
Ceramic
Bottom
Oven
Cavity
Metal�Floor
Mrcrowaves are like TV waves or light waves you can�t see them but you can see what they do
A magnetron In the mrcrowave oven produces mrcrowaves The microwaves move into the oven where they are scattered or stirred by a mode mrxer (like a fan] Microwaves bounce off metal oven walls and are absorbed by food
The ceramic bottom of your mlcrowave oven lets mrcrowaves through Then they bounce off a metal floor, back through the ceramic bottom and are absorbed by the food
Microwaves pass through glass, paper and plastic without heating them so food absorbs the energy Microwaves bounce off metal pans so food does not absorb the energy
Microwaves may not reach the center of a roast The heat around the outstde IS what cooks the roast all the way through This IS one of the reasons for IeHing some foods (roasts. baked potatoes) stand for a while after cooking, or for stirring some foods during the ccoking time
The microwaves drsturb water molecules in the food As the molecules bounce around bumping into each other, heat is made, like rubDing your hands together This is the heat that cooks.
