There is no use for a microwave because I have good cooking tools and skill.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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When reheating food on a plate, I just put protein first for 30-60s, then add carbs (rice, pasta, or potato) and heat it all together for more 30-60s or until it's steaming. Always full power.
Never over 50% power. I'm always shocked by how many people don't know how to use a microwave. I usually worked a long time on my food, I don't want to ruin it through lazy reheating.
Full 900w every time, because that's what the package asks for. Except when it asks for 1000w.
What do you mean, never? Do you never heat water, coffee, tea, ...? Or just larger quantities where more power is no problem even for longer durations? This is not a fundamental thing, the optimum is different not just based on type, amount and distribution of food, additionally things like time constraints, container or cleaning matter.
Never for reheating leftovers, anyway, which is 99% of what I use a microwave for. I have a kettle for other stuff. Overly high heat is gonna turn your proteins into rubber and exaggerate the "flaming hot on the outside, still cold in the middle" effect. There's also lots of other stuff like arranging things to avoid dead spots, making use of coverings to trap steam, not throwing your vegetables that will take a minute to warm up in at the beginning with the big hunk of pasta that's gonna need several minutes to heat through, etc.
But yeah if you're reheating your food on >50% power you are almost definitely making it turn out worse than it would be on lower power.
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I always go six minutes. Fight me.
Guy on left, but for 5 minutes instead
Microwave for 5 minutes at 70%, no mixing or flipping just fire and forget. Go play Slay the Spire while you wait.
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The guy on the left except I don't even know the amount of time since my microwave was built in the mid-80s and takes longer to cook food (not sure if underpowered when it was built or some sort of degradation took place, it just came with the house).
Kinda depends on what I'm making, but usually full nuke with a flip or stir partway through.
.00001% - twice as long at half power, oh look the centre isn't still frozen
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I don't use the microwave. Also I didn't know there were different heat settings.
The power setting makes the microwave cycle between ON and OFF at the given ratio. So at 50% power the microwave will only be heating for half of the cook time.
Best my microwave can do is 650 W, 800 W, 1000 W?
Nope, pretty much all have a duty cycle. Like 30 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and they keep repeating that or similar for however long the cook time is. If you listen closely you can hear the magnetron kick on and off.
I believe Panasonic was the only company that sold an inverter microwave that lowered the power output.
Okay, but I can't set any percentage. I can set watts and a time.
Oh that's cool. I've never seen one where you can set the wattage. Mine does duty time as well for power level which is also how my electric range heating elements work.
Every microwave I've ever seen was like this.
Is this some EU vs US thing?
This is more interesting than I would've thought. I'm also sick right now so I may not be of entirely sound mind.
This is what I recognise as a standard Mikrowelle control panel like I've been using all my life:
You punch in a wattage, turn the knob to set the time, and then you press start. Older models would have a knob for setting watts too. Note the lack of a "popcorn" button.
And this seems to be the standard when I ask Duckduckgo for "microwave":
Wot?
I'm in Australia, generally, we have cooking instructions and microwaves that talk about wattage and time. Never duty cycle.
Eg a sauce packet says 600w 30sec. Press power button until 600w and put it in 30 seconds.
I know there's duty cycles, you can hear them. I don't know if that's how it's converted as a fraction of the 1500 watt maximum (40% duty cycle = 600w) but you hear it turn on and off most on the defrosting preconfigured buttons.
Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if it's all just the same underneath with regional translations.
Well, you ARE an honorary EU member, makes sense that you'd use the clearly more sensible system ;D
Tap for spoiler
I am joking, it just seems more sensible to me because it's what I know.
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Same
5 minutes at 30% in an inverter microwave.
Learn to use the functions. Life changing. “Just nuke it” is for children and Neanderthals ✌🏻😌
Everything tells me it's meant for an 1100 watt microwave, but my microwave is 1250 watts, so by setting it to 90% power, it's almost perfect.
just use cover
I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.
Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble/boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.
You can see a technology connection a mile away
I just remembered that this video is where I got the idea from and came to edit my comment to link it! It should be possible to build something like that in 2025, no? Why is every microwave I see in stores the exact same microwave my parents bought 30 years ago but in black?
Black plastic doesn't yellow like white. Microwaves are pretty much a commoditized item. Unless they're trying to make it a "smart device" and sell you a subscription.
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Interesting, I can see why it failed though. TCP's ideal situation is that you buy a microwaveable item with a TCP code on the box, pop it in your TCP enabled microwave, punch in the code and done. But those items will still need instructions for people without TCP microwaves, so those aren't really my problem anyway. I want to know how long I should microwave my leftover pasta (plastic container, 300g, from the fridge). TCP would have me... go to a website and look up the right code in a table? I could probably find the right settings for a regular microwave in much the same way and that way I might actually learn something useful instead of an opaque 4-digit code.
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That would cost like $1500
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