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George Shirley George Shirley is offline
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Default I take it back: you 'can' cook (some things) in a MW

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 15 Nov 2008 08:13:45a, James Silverton told us...
>
>> In general, a standard microwave oven is easy to keep clean. How do you
>> clean the ones that include radiant heating to achieve crispness? The
>> self-cleaning regular oven is one of the biggest advances in kitchen
>> equipment. IMHO.

>
> Agreed. I wouldn’t have one with a grill/broiler element for that very
> reason.
>
> Actually, I prefer the Panasonic that emits true percentages of microwave
> power instead of pulsing at full power to maintain lower levels of cooking.
>

Wayne: You can program the Sharp to give you true percentages of power
by just pressing the necessary buttons for 10/20/30 percent and up of
full power.