Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Wed 03 Sep 2008 06:10:35p, Corey Richardson told us...
>
>> Microwave cookers are an ingenious invention, but does anyone really use
>> them for cooking rather than reheating?
>>
>> Sure, I use mine for softening butter or reheating tinned beans and
>> soups etc. but I could never see myself actually cooking a raw chicken
>> in one.
>>
>> What do you use your microwave oven for?
>
> I cook many things in mine with the exception of meats. I also use it for
> the things most people do, defrosting, melting, reheating, etc.
>
> I should say that I have a Panasonic with inverter turbo cooking
> technology, which is quite different than most other microwaves. When you
> select a power setting, you get a constant flow of power at that setting
> rather than the usual pulsing at full power to achieve the lower power
> level. This makes a big difference in cooking results.

That's what I thought with my Panasonic inverter turbo. Then I was
doing something with it one day, and my TV isn't far from my microwave,
and I could plainly see from the interference on the television that the
oven was cycling power off and on to obtain that partial setting.


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