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No way. My microwave has a single button. "Add 30 seconds". Anything else is just decoration.

Reason this is good is because the power setting really only affects how often the magnetron switches on and off (usually easy to hear). Lower power = more time off. Many microwave foods say to let it rest for a few minutes, this integrates that into the process(but they're all different so do experiment)

cold food hot bowl is a direct sign of not having good microwaveable dishes.

I've noticed some dishes degrade over time as well. I have some coffee cups that were fine for years, but nowadays if I microwave one for a minute I might as well be grabbing a motorcycle tailpipe when I go to take it out.

Yup, some dishes absorb microwaves better than the food, so they absorb the majority of the energy.

Also, you might want to double check what your bowl is made of, and that it's a microwave safe material. If the bowl is getting dramatically hotter than the food like that, the power is being absorbed by the bowl instead of being evenly distributed like neutral microwave-safe materials would.

In a microwave oven, an assembly of cyprium, aluminium, and ferrum-impregnated clay is energized in such a way as to excite the aetheric medium, producing a beam of invisible energy which induces sympathetic vibrations in certain particulates in various solid and liquid foods, which results in heating of the food material.

But tell me again how it's not magic.

Or just get a better microwave safe container?

But I want it NOW!

4th degree burns be damned.

Also, add water. How much depends on the food. Water is opaque to microwaves, so it absorbs them extremely readily and thus heat up. If you have wifi that shuts down when a shower is going, that's why.

Lmao but...

Obligatory, do not do this, this is a joke, hamsters do not do well in microwaves.

(Somewhere a kid is reading this thinking it's a good idea)

I feel attacked

Wait till you find out that in Europe a lot of microwaves still only have two dials you turn, 0 buttons or only the very basic of buttons alongside.

My microwave has a popcorn setting.
Every microwavable popcorn I ever bought said on the package not to use that setting.
Same with all the others: What the fuck does the Pizza setting actually do?

You fool, you know nothing of microwaves.

+30 automatically starts it.

POPCORN BUTTON!

"center of time", that sound vaguely poetic. :)

Simply increase the instructions cook time by the inverse ratio of microwave radiation absorption coefficients for both energy levels!

Or use the donut method, arrange your food in a donut on your plate, allowing it to get cooked from more surface area at once

You office has a community oven and skillet?

Finally, a civilized yank that understands how to make tea the correct way.