Too cold to enjoy or too hot to eat?

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’ve never seen a dial set to wattage, but just a “power level”. Either way, though, changing a microwave to only be on half the time will cut the average watts in half.

      Here’s GE’s explanation of it. There are probably some fancy newer models that can do some different things, bit for the most part, it’s just on or off. You can even hear it click on and off if you listen to it run.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Most microwaves have a dial to set Wattage. Is that a lie?

      I’ve never seen this. The power setting on every microwave in my life has modified duty cycle. 30% power is 3s on, 7s off.

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      11 months ago

      Wattage as averaged over a second, yes it’s a lie. Wattage as averaged over a minute, it might be true. ;)