On Sat 15 Nov 2008 11:47:13a, George Shirley told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sat 15 Nov 2008 09:57:42a, George Shirley told us...
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Are they *true* percentages, or is it accomplished by pulsing off and
>> on at full power to emulate those percentages? AFAIK, Panasonic was
>> the only manufacturer who used that technology. Virtually microwave
>> ovens with digital controls have setting for 10-100”%” power.
>>
> I have no idea if it is "true" percentages or not. Usually you can hear
> the oven pulsing on and off but I haven't noticed that when I'm cooking
> at lower power percentages. The Sharp we have is 100% digital AFAIK.
>

It's hard to say. I was under the impression that Panasonic was the only
company that used the inverter technology with actual percentages of power.
I dunno.

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Wayne Boatwright
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