Timeline for How do I adjust cooking time for an under-powered microwave?
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| Jan 15, 2018 at 8:19 | comment | added | MSalters | @xyious: The volume hardly matters - the microwaves bounce around until they hit the food. | |
| Jan 14, 2018 at 22:44 | comment | added | xyious | So to hopefully shed slightly more light on this.... Usually 1100W microwaves are 1.1 square foot (although no recipe I have ever read makes this clear). I have a .7 square foot microwave with 700W, do i not need to adjust cooking time at all ? It would seem that adding 35% to the cooking time is too much. | |
| Feb 12, 2016 at 16:34 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Your microwave is likely smaller than one of the 1100 watt jobs. Calculating microwave watts per cubic meter can be helpful. Sometimes the less powerful units come out with the same energy density as the larger models, sometimes not. You want Microwave energy, not Amps X volts from the wall. The cavity magnetrons in various units run at different efficiencies, and it's the output from that into the oven cavity that you're interested in. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 21:15 | comment | added | TFD | Each microwave oven has a different magnetron (the thing that generates microwaves), the actual heating efficiency of that plus the cookign chmaber desing is what counts, so it's never an exact formula, and the difference can be quite large | |
| Mar 25, 2013 at 12:59 | vote | accept | Iszi | ||
| Aug 25, 2011 at 13:23 | history | answered | MSalters | CC BY-SA 3.0 |