"William Gothberg" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:34:22 -0000, Arthur Conan Doyle
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"William Gothberg" wrote:

I don't need a MW, but the usual 600W to 900W in domestic ovens is
pitiful. What's wrong with 2kW?

There are higher rating consumer units, but you have to look for them. I
had a
1.2kw range hood type that worked much better than the 900w types. I
think
commerical units (i.e. convenience store) can be found that are 1.8kw.

That said, what I find annoying is that the power control for every
consumer
microwave I've seen is duty cycle based. That is, so many seconds of full
power
followed by so many seconds of no power.

Some foods and defrosting would work much better if the actual power
level could
be adjusted. Panasonic claims to make an inverter based design, but I'm
not
convinced they actually adjust the outpout power.

I'm unsure how magnetrons work,

That's obvious.

but what's the big deal with running them at half power?

Not big deal so much as just easier to turn them on and off.

Do they have to be on full power,

No, the inverters don't, but that's more expensive to do.

and also can't be cycled more quickly?

The cycling speed doesn't matter.

Anyway, I've never used a microwave on anything other than full power -
even when defrosting,

Yes, you actually are that stupid/know it all.

which for some reason people think you have to select "defrost". Why?

Because that avoids cooking the outside
and leaving the inside still frozen solid.

It just takes longer. I can defrost food much faster on full power.

But with some food you end up with the
outside cooked and the inside still frozen.

Another weird thing my current (Hyundai 800W) microwave does is to switch
off the heating completely for the last 15 seconds but continue to run the
fan, light, and turntable (if you've selected at least 4 minutes time).
So er like why not just remove the food 15 seconds earlier?

Because some food that absorbs the microwaves in the outer
layer need time to let the heat conduct thru the food so you
don't end up with some food too hot to eat and the rest too cold.

Which I often do.

Yes, you actually are that stupid/know it all.

Funnily enough nothing ever exploded.

Its got nothing to do with exploding, everything to do with
not having hot spots and cold spots in the food. Yes, that
may not happen much with the vegy **** you choose to
eat but it does with other food that non freaks eat.