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.
Don’t know how you’re getting down voted for this? This feature is going to be the new standard for microwaves.
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
Did y’all know that microwaves aren’t magic and you need to mix your food?
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.
blue paints/colors tend to be the worst culprits.
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.
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.
Maaaan, there ain’t no luminiferous ether!
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?
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.
That clay sure gets around, don’it?
You do need to mix your food, but microwaves are obviously magic.
microwaves aren’t magic
Well, any sufficiently advanced technology…
If you cook it on half power for twice as long, you can do one less thing (also IMO it tastes significantly better)
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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.
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Microfractures from the cup constantly expanding and contracting sounds most likely. Cup has been through war lol
Yup, some dishes absorb microwaves better than the food, so they absorb the majority of the energy.
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.
Can you recommend something? I mostly I use crockery plates or glass containsers, which work, but can get pretty hot.
Nordic ware plates
Thanks!
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.
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.
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?
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
Bowls of soup (and the heathens that reheat coffee or boil water for tea in the microwave) disagree.
What do you mean?
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)
Lower the power setting and putting 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
Oooorrr…
Just not put your plate in the centre…
What if you have a plate as big as the plate on the microwave
Sir, that’s an entire turkey platter, not your dinner plate.
They could have a small microwave
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.
Genius! I can’t wait to get this recommended by Google’s LLM.
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.
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.
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I think the hamster has a better chance in the microwave
Edit: stupid spelling
Use high-fired pottery. Not low-fired pottery.
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.
Wet a paper towel and place it over the whole plate
