Aaaaccccckkkk. These computers are controlling us now. Telling us when to “turn” a food item in the Microwave. Telling to believe their “idiot” pictures. When we can or cannot use UPPERCLASS text!
AI-ing us into oblivion. I’m alarmed.
And nothing is on TV worth watching. Why can’t they study my algorithm and know I don’t intend to ever watch TLC, Lifetime or Bravo. Or umpteenth-million ads for crap nobody wants. Put something watchable on.
Now they’ll probably send the goon squad to get me for brain implantation surgery!
Mine is the same – the popcorn setting burns standard size popcorn bags. It turns out perfect when I use the maximum of the recommended time interval, which I think is 2 1/2 minutes. I suspect the popcorn setting is intended for something other than popcorn bags, like a microwave popping dish.
If you don’t mind taking extra time, a good way to microwave food is to do it at a lower power for a longer time. So if something says to heat for 1 minute, do it for 2 minutes at 50% or 3 minutes at 30%. The lower power will have the microwave turn on and off so that short bursts of heat hit the food and the heat has time to dissipate evenly. At full power, the heat may be hitting the surface of the food faster than it can migrate to the interior. This is fine for liquidy stuff like soup, but frozen food will be very resistant to heat transfer. The outer surface will overcook before the interior has warmed up. The same is true for meats. Heating these kinds of heat resistant foods at lower power for longer will produce a much better result than cooking it at full power. The more heat resistant the food is, the lower power you should use to heat it up.
“Inverter” microwaves are able to operate at half-power, so they don’t need to cycle on-and-off.
“Traditional” microwaves need to operate at full power in order to clear the electrons from the emitter, so they would burn out if the attempt was made to operate at half-power.
‘Original’ microwave ovens didn’t even have a flatbed-fan or turntable, and heated very unevenly. You needed to let the item sit for a while, even for small items.
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