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by db48x 3351 days ago
That's why your microwave oven has a power setting. It toggles the magnetron on and off during cooking, so that your food cooks more evenly.
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Yet it never does, unless maybe you have a $2000 microwave oven?
Yours doesn't toggle on and off when you use the power level controls? Maybe it's broken; this is a feature that all microwaves have, because it's so cheap to implement. Note that the lights and fans and things keep going; it's only the magnetron that turns on and off. You might hear a difference in the sound of the microwave, or a relay clicking when it toggles, but that's all.