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Janet Bostwick

On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:43:34 -0600, wrote:

>Our microwave died after 12 years. It was a costly over when it was new
>and it had lots of bells and whistles and could be set to the desired
>power level. Until we can afford a new microwave, I found a small one
>for cheap at a local second hand store. It's a very basic model and is
>19 years old, but it still had all the labels and looks like it was
>never used. It works and that's mostly what mattered.
>
>It has a rotary setting to set the minutes, rather than push buttons.
>That's eacy enough to figure out. But there is another setting to
>choose COOK or DEFROST. Is this a power level setting? In other words,
>if this is set to DEFROST, is the power lower than COOK? If so, can
>that be used to slow cook things that tend to boil over?
>
>Thanks
>
>Marg

The defrost cycle on my MW cycles at full power for a while and then
reduces power for the remainder of the time. The amount of time is
chosen by the weight of the item to be defrosted. I wouldn't try to
cook with Defrost.
Janet US