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When microwaving food, do you stop too soon and have it still cold or do you stop too late and have to wait? (lemmy.world)

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Too cold to enjoy or too hot to eat?

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[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Wait, how can that be true?

Most microwaves have a dial to set Wattage. Is that a lie?

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Most microwaves have a dial to set Wattage. Is that a lie?

I've never seen this. The power setting on every microwave in my life has modified duty cycle. 30% power is 3s on, 7s off.

[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I've owned 2 microwaves and they had that dial with specific Wattage. That why I was surprised

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I've never seen a dial set to wattage, but just a "power level". Either way, though, changing a microwave to only be on half the time will cut the average watts in half.

Here's GE's explanation of it. There are probably some fancy newer models that can do some different things, bit for the most part, it's just on or off. You can even hear it click on and off if you listen to it run.

[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I've owned 2 microwaves and they had that dial with specific Wattage. That why I was surprised

[-] maze@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Wattage as averaged over a second, yes it's a lie. Wattage as averaged over a minute, it might be true. ;)

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