First, clean your microwave. If things are picking up flavors from your microwave, that’s a you thing, not a microwave thing.

Second, just cover things that you put into the microwave. You can get reusable covers, or you can often use a paper towel.

Third, a kettle is still better than a microwave for water.

Oh, I use an electric kettle for tea and coffee for that matter. I was just giving the method I use to clean my microwave. I clean it whenever it gets dirty enough to bother me. I don’t use it often and I mostly cover my food if I do heat it up. So about every 2-3 months?

Weekly. Today’s the day.

do you cook odorous food in your microwave that often ? otherwise i dont see what your argument means

Please stop making soup in your kettle.

Apparently I’ve been making popcorn wrong this whole time /s

That doesn’t transfer in my experience though I don’t do it with wet bleach in there. Maybe that is the ticket to my success: Drying it out first.