if something says to reheat it for some length of time in a 700 watt microwave, and you have a 1000 watt microwave, does running it at 70% power give the same result, I wonder?
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judging by these frozen meatballs being basically perfectly reheated, i assume yes
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@Felthry I assume so? we've never cooked something with very precise microwave instructions, though, so it's hard to tell
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@Felthry I think it should, but microwaves can be janky. mine interprets 70% power as "turn on the emitter for 3.5s, then turn it off for 1.5s, then repeat." except it might be more like 7s/3s?
(ours also doesn't do any hearing for the first several seconds, so if you put something in for 10s ten times, you get drastically different results putting an identical thing in for 100s)
@lioness that's actually how all microwaves work, you straight up *can't* run a magnetron at significantly less than its rated power
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i mean of course if it was actually running at 70% power it would, but microwaves don't work that way, they just cycle the magnetron on for 70% of the time and off for 30% of the time
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