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 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.
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.
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
cold food hot bowl is a direct sign of not having good microwaveable dishes.
My in laws have this white corelle stuff that swears it’s microwave safe on the bottom but it gets hot as fuck when you reheat food. i don’t think it’s just because it’s thin either if you try to melt butter in it the dishes get very hot.
The glass bentgo containers i use for storing food seem to be completely invisible to the microwaves. You can get food bubbling hot and still grab the glass container to pull it out and it’s completely cool.
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.
interesting! probably water molecules collecting inside through micro cracks over the years, it’s the h2o molecules in food that act as the microwave susceptors
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.
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.
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?
The trick is not microwaving everything at 100% power, but for a longer time instead
Can you recommend something? I mostly I use crockery plates or glass containsers, which work, but can get pretty hot.
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.
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.
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.
Bowls of soup (and the heathens that reheat coffee or boil water for tea in the microwave) disagree.
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.
You reminded me of the old Joe Cartoon videos from the before YouTube times.
Gerbil in a Microwave (NSFW warning for cartoon violence)
