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HOW MICROVKVE OVENS WORK
Microwave 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.
Mode Mixer
Magnetron
Bottom
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Mrcrowav?s are lrke TV
waves or light waves You
can’t see them but you can
see what they do
Oven Cavity
Metal Floor
A magnetron produces
mrcrowaves The microwaves
move into the oven where
they are scattered around by
a stirrer (like a fan)
Mrcrowaves bounce off
metal oven walls and are
absorbed by food
The bottom of your micro-
wave oven lets micro-
waves through. Then they
bounce off the metal
floor, back through the
bottom, and are ab-
sorbed bv the food.
Micr0wavt.s pass throuyh
glass. paper and plastio
wrthout heotlng them SC rood
absorbs th? energy’ Macro-
waves bounce 3ff rneta! pans
so food doss not absorb the
enerqv
Microwaves may not reach
the center of a roast The heat
around the outside is what
cooks the roast all the way
through. This is one of the
reasons for letting some
foods [roasts, baked pota-
toes] stand for a while after
cooking, or for stirring some
foods during the (cooking
time.
The microwaves disturb
water molecules in the food
As the molecules bounce
around bumplng into each
other, heat is made. like rub-
bing your hands together
Thus
IS
the heat that cooks
BI-LEVEL OVEN RACK
{se the ISLevel Oven Rack to stack foods when cooking in more than one container
The rack can be turnea upside-down to help fit taller containers on the bottom of the
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First Position: Use the rack only when heating
more than one container of food.
SPECIAL CAUTIONS
Do not let a container touch the top of the
oven.
Second Position: Turn rack upside-down
when using a taller container on the bottom
of the over’
CLEANING THE RACK
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Put food in containersthen place con-
tainers on rack.
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Do not cook foods directly on rack without
putting them in containers first.
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Do not use with browning dish.
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Use only in the microwave oven.
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Do not let food or container touch the top of
the oven.
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Wash by hand with a mild detergent.
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Do not store rack in the oven.
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Wash on the top rack of a dishwasher.
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Use only when cooking foods in more than
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Do not use abrasive scrubbers or cleansers
one container.
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