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How
your microwave oven works
Mtcrowave ovens are safe Microwave energy IS not hot It causes food to make Its own
heat, and It’s this heat that cooks the food
Mrcrowaves are like TV
waves or light waves you
can’t see them but you can
see what they do
Microwaves pass through
glass, paper and plastic with-
out heating them so food ab-
sorbs the energy Microwaves
bounce off metal pans so
food does not absorb the
energy
Mode Mixer Magnetron
Ceramic Bottom
Oven Cavity
A magnetron In the mrcro-
wave oven produces mrcro-
waves 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 mrcro-
waves through Then they
bounce off a metal floor,
back through the ceramic
bottom and are absorbed
by the food
Metal’Floor
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 rea-
sons for IeHing some foods
(roasts. baked potatoes)
stand for a while after cook-
ing, 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 rub-
Ding your hands together
This is the heat that cooks.
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