why does a microwave cook unevenly across

[EightySix Four]

Why does the pizza rolls on the outside edge of the plate always explode while the inner ones are still cold?

 

[CrazyLazy]

The waves that make the water move and heat up don't distribute uniformly. If you let the pizza sit for a little while the heat should dissipate to the the rest of it. Outside of that you could always do it a little bit in the microwave and then throw it in the toaster.

Edit: Also make sure the tray is rotating correctly, if it's just standing still that's going to mess stuff up.

 

[EightySix Four]

Yeah, it's one of the rotating ones, hence I always figured it would be able to heat more uniformly across multiple objects.

 

[Train]

cook on lower power, for a tad longer.

If you dont have a spiny thingy, rotate it a quarter turn every so often. Let the pizza distribute its own heat.

 

[Howard]

In order for a microwave oven to cook evenly, you need to inject the gas that turns things inside out.

 

[Injury]

So why don't you stop it halfway through and shuffle the pizza rolls around?

 

[nakedfrog]

There's a technique to find your hot spots, you use it to make grape plasma.

 

[ondarkness]

my corn dogs do the same.
sux. hafta toss in the toaster afterwards

 

[Eeezee]

Since a microwave cooks with light, you get standing waves inside of the cooking area. As a fun experiment, pack a microwave full of marshmallows some day. By dissecting the marshmallow cube, you can see the 3d pattern of hot and cold indicating the "bright" and "dark" fringes that you'd normally see with any diffraction pattern. In other words, you're creating an interference pattern that results in hot and cold spots.

This is why the tray rotates, but of course that's not foolproof. Using a lower power setting can help, the cold spots won't get any colder but the hot spots will get cooler. Thus, by leaving it on for longer at a lower power setting you can get slightly more even cooking (since items that tend to remain in cold spots will be heated more over time).

Also, more expensive microwaves tend to have an interference pattern designed to minimize cold spots on the tray. If you have a cheap microwave, just always use lower power settings. The lower power setting just turns off the magnetron regularly, so that the food in hot spots will get more time to cool before further heating (so the net result is less heat in the hot spots, which promotes more even cooking across the plate)

 

[HardcoreRobot]

SVA FTL

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
[/b]Since a microwave cooks with light[/b]

Huh?! Microwaves sit somewhere between light and radio waves in the spectrum. I suppose technically you could say it's light, since light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum too, but that would mean everything from low frequency audio waves all the way to gamma radiation are all "light".

As a fun experiment, pack a microwave full of marshmallows some day.

I'd love to try this, but only if you plan on coming over and cleaning my microwave afterwards.

 

[Modelworks]

You can also get a microwave with a stirrer. Its like a small fan above the turntable. It scatters the microwaves and makes for even distribution better than a turntable alone.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Eeezee
[/b]Since a microwave cooks with light[/b]

Huh?! Microwaves sit somewhere between light and radio waves in the spectrum. I suppose technically you could say it's light, since light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum too, but that would mean everything from low frequency audio waves all the way to gamma radiation are all "light".

As a fun experiment, pack a microwave full of marshmallows some day.

I'd love to try this, but only if you plan on coming over and cleaning my microwave afterwards.

That would help explain why I can hear the colors as I watch the sounds dance across the sky. Or maybe it's that acid I just took...

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Huh?! Microwaves sit somewhere between light and radio waves in the spectrum. I suppose technically you could say it's light, since light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum too, but that would mean everything from low frequency audio waves all the way to gamma radiation are all "light".

fail

 

[scott916]

Lulz at the time. People crack me up.
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