Slow microwave ovens

[Bill Wright]

It's been a hell of a year for quite a few of us in the group, I think.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

I've just heated some sardines. Low power is OK but medium or high and the bones explode.

Bill

[William Gothberg]

In that case I deeply apologise. I am truly sorry to hear that, no matter how much we hate each other.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Yes, and all of the best for 2019.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Thank you for your kind words. Hate? I do not hate you.

[Bill Wright]

No it isn't.

Bill

[William Gothberg]

If you don't hate me, then why the er.... [consults dictionary] animosity in every post to me? You don't enter any discussion, you just say "prick", "wanker", etc.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Those words do not mean hate.

[William Gothberg]

I tend not to call people that unless I hate them. I hate people who don't drive properly, so I shout "wanker".

So, you still love me then?

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

Microwave heating instructions usually say what power they're for. Most I've seen recently say 1 or 1.1KW. Maybe that's the normal for the new units.

BTW, I have a 700W microwave about 30 years old.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

My microwave doesn't have a turntable and seems to have no need for one.

[Diesel]

Sorry for your loss.

[Diesel]

You only get what, 20-25 posts every 24 hours through that service, right? Why waste them here? :)

[Diesel]

Hehehe.. Yea, it is. You'd think there wouldn't be a noticeable difference in 1000 vs 1100 too, but, there is.. You have to adjust cooking times for stuff accordingly. I have a totally destroyed burrito and super heating science lesson as a result of 100 watt difference; a measily 100 watt difference.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Thank you for your kind words. It was of course cancer. She had the works. Hysterectomy, chemo and radiotherapy. I think we both knew the inevitable outcome. The overworked staff at the hospital and the hospice were magnificent.

Quick rant. I begrudge giving money to nations that would not piss on us if we were on fire. The NHS is in crisis, spend our money here.

[William Gothberg]

Yes you have to adjust the times. But it's not what I'd call noticeable as in "woah that food was ready quicker". For everything, I need a factor of 2 to be happy. A CPU that's twice as fast. A hard disk that's twice as big, a car with an engine with double the horsepower.

[angelicapaganelli]

Like a child.

You have an undeveloped palate. Ready meals taste "nice" because they hit your evolutionary preferences for fat, salt, and sugar. The manufacturers do that deliberately so you won't notice how truly wretched the underlying taste is.

Cindy Hamilton

[trader_4]

It's still mostly wretched compared to real cooked food that you prepare yourself. The idea that a pizza cooked in a microwave is representative of good pizza is absurd. The vast majority of the commercial frozen pizzas that I've seen do not say that they should be or can be cooked in a microwave. There are a few small pizzas designed for a microwave and they have to play tricks, like have a piece of metalized cardboard to try to crisp up the bottom. It doesn't work well and the one I tried was also among the crappiest pizzas for other reasons too.

I suppose next they will be trying to tell us that you can make your cakes in an microwave instead of a conventional oven too. There is a product out that claims to make a muffin in a mug. It's a mix that you combine with water and microwave. I figured it was going to be crap, but for $1 I figured I'd try it. Total crap, nothing like a real, properly baked muffin.

Maybe it's all that TV dinner crap that makes them into trolls?

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[trader_4]

IDK what kind of crap you have over there, but here, in the USA, frozen pizza is not cooked. The crust is dough that needs to be baked, the cheese needs to be melted, etc. I suspect, as usual from past experience, you're full of shit and pizza in the UK is similar. And the vast majority of pizza COOKING instructions say to put it in a regular oven, not a microwave. For obvious reasons.

[Diesel]

That's all well and good, but, contrary to what it looks like, as some of you recently learned, it's not. Several of you, incorrectly assumed that because you had a newer inverter model that it was actually controlling the power level of the magnetron itself.

The magnetron is either full power or no power. Any control you gain is by more precise cycling of the Magnetrons on/off state.Inverter, or not, You cannot actually regulate the Magnetrons power. If it's a

1200 watt unit, it's 1200watts anytime the Magnetron is on. Not 900, not 600, always 1200.