Mic tip #2: Instead of cooking the food at 5MW for 0.0234 seconds consider turning down da powa and leaving it on for longer.
The rays don’t penetrate deep into the food and cooking it longer will let the outside warm the inside.
Quetzalcutlass 4 points 4 days ago
It's important knowledge for reheating leftovers. Reheating a plate of food for 30 seconds on high results in the outside being hot but the middle cold. Reheating for three minutes at 50% results in a perfectly heated meal.
It also helps prevent temperature-sensitive ingredients from overheating. Reheated pizza tends to be extremely greasy if you throw it in on high because the cheese breaks long before the crust gets warmed through, but the low cost of an extra minute or two will give you pizza that's nearly as good as when it was fresh.
Zarobi 0 points 4 days ago
Most microwaves don't actually turn down the power; they just cycle on and off. So at 50% power, it's actually running full blast, but turning off every x seconds.
It's more effective to just pause and stir it half way.
mrgoosmoos 2 points 4 days ago
why don't they design microwaves so the center isn't a cold spot, tho
dillekant 6 points 4 days ago
I use this trick. Basically, Microwaves cook from the top, and heat needs time to go down. Additionally, microwaves can put a lot of power into the food, which can burn bits while keeping other bits stone cold. The only way around this is to reduce the power and cook for longer. Mixing as other people have noted is also somewhat effective.
Basically if you make a microwave oven take as long as a regular oven, it'll cook the food more evenly.
prole 1 point 4 days ago
Using power levels in tiers like that, and pausing to rotate 45 degrees (even if the tray already rotates, though not as necessary in that case) are the key. Also, moving the thing around inside to avoid hot spots.
But even then, for most things I'd rather spend 20+ min heating a thing in a conventional oven as it turns out better 100% of the time
BurgerBaron 3 points 4 days ago
It's still unpleasant even if I'm pointless and temporary. I'd rather be pointless and temporary with evenly heated food; it's going back in the microwave.
DangerNooble 3 points 4 days ago
I nuke it until there's some exploded around the walls and then forget about it for an hour or two. Then I just eat it luke warm.
saltnotsugar 3 points 4 days ago
Oh hot pocket…we cannot escape ourselves.
username_1 2 points 4 days ago
If I am able to chew it -- it isn't cold.
VaalaVasaVarde 2 points 4 days ago
More likely i heat it too much and burn my mouth on the lava food.
rumba 2 points 3 days ago
No, not really, but I am hungry. If I leave it in longer, the outside will dry out and get tough before the inside gets warm. You can only heat-soak food so quickly. The right answer is to go back in time, set it for 60% duty cycle, and cook it for 150% of the original time
renrenPDX 1 point 4 days ago
Since I'm usually doing something else (cooking/prepping), I tend to just heat on high in stages. High for a minute or two with rest periods in between to allow the heat to penetrate. This way it's ready along with everything else without overcooking.
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Life hack: Don't place it in the center of the turn table.
Because of the way the microwaves propagate in the oven, there are "hot spots" and "cold spots" inside. That's why there is a turn table so your food moves around and gets heated more evenly. But the center of the turn table always stays in the same spot.
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