• lauha@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    While this is a meme and a joke, have you ever wondered why both oven and microwave have a power adjust but you only adjust the one on the oven and the food mysteriously tastes better from it?

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      2 days ago

      This is not even remotely the same thing…

      Ovens cook food from the outside in, this means higher temperatures can burn the outside.

      Microwaves cook food from the inside out (sort of). You can get away with higher power for this reason for most foods.

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        2 days ago

        It doesn’t cook outside in or inside out but both get the same amount of power. Problem is that microwave doesn’t do it evenly and lower power allows the heat to spread more evenly instead of couple auper heated spots drying while some parta are still cold. Rotating plate is a hack to try spread the radiation more evenly but doesn’t work too well.