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lid says...
> 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.
>
>
>

One feature I like about my Sharp Carousel is that it has a re-heat mode
that doesn't blast the food with microwave. It cycles the magnetron,
about every 15 seconds it powers the magnetron down for 10 or so second.
The food doesn't get completely dried out this way.

And if you're seeing intereference on your TV that means something is
very wrong. I'm tring to think what channels lay in the harmonics for
2.4GHz and the only one I can think of is a 4th order harmonic around
150MHz that would most likely effect channel 17 or 18.