Thursday, January 14, 2010

HELP!!! I don't know how to use my microwave!

Okay. So, I don't have an oven, but I DO have a microwave... I just don't know how to use it. There are two dials, "power" and "time." I understand how the time one works, but the power one confuses me.

Here's a picture of the dials. You can't see the settings, so I drew them larger on a piece of paper.



I've tried 5 minutes on the bottom setting, the rightmost setting, the setting with the snowflake, the setting with 4 water droplets. The rightmost setting seems to act like an oven with no microwave action (my microwave-safe plate gets hot and my food feels less cold). For every other setting, my food and plate just stay cold.

Is it broken or am I using it incorrectly?

3 comments:

  1. OK. Just some motherly tips :-). The power dial sets how much power you want zapped onto your food. The high setting is often the default at home. However, when you're doing something like defrosting a roll or meat, you want to use a lower setting so it just defrosts and doesn't cook. But maybe you already know that. What I cannot tell you is what each of those funny icons is supposed to represent. Must be a british thing.

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  2. This oven might be a combination microwave and conventional oven.
    Seems like a good excuse to go meet the neighbors - "Excuse me could you explain my oven . . ?"
    Hey - the comments work!
    Debra

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  3. If you choose to go the non-social, computer science route, you can always just search the internet for the user manual. But I like Debra's suggestion best.

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