• village604@adultswim.fan
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    9 hours ago

    The trick is to never use 100% power. It depends on what I’m heating, but I rarely go over 50% on my 1kW microwave.

    Double the time and half the power. Since food in microwaves heats from the outside in, you have to have it duty cycle so the heat can move inwards without overheating the outside.

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    16 hours ago

    If you put a piece of tinfoil in the middle of what you are microwaving. The tinfoil keeps the center hot and the temperature even.

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    19 hours ago

    This is a shot from Shazam staring Sinbad as the Genie. Great movie, used to watch it all the time in school holidays.

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      18 hours ago

      I wish inverter type microwaves were standard. The vast majority of residential microwave ovens only modulate on like a 10 second interval. So you put it on power setting 3 or 30 and it will pump out full power for 3 seconds then off for 7 seconds. This works for things like defrosting meat, but a bunch of foods will still start popping and drying out in those few seconds. Inverter microwaves modulate many times a second so they can warm much more fragile foods without searing them.

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        15 hours ago

        Or just don’t cook things in a raggedy bitch microwave. Use a grill, stove, oven, or whatever other better tools for the job.

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      19 hours ago

      Yes, but some times the popping is just the food unfreezing. If the food is not burning and staying cold at the same time, then do nothing.