Re: silica gel

Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
[...]
You can find just about anything you want on the Internet
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The manual for my Sharp R-230AK states on page 4

ALWAYS have food in the oven when it is on to absorb
the microwave energy. [Emphasis in original]

I would suggest that you consider just what percentage of the
energy released into the oven is actually absorbed by *any*
particular item placed into the oven.

When cooking, most of it.

> For example, a bag of
popcorn, or a cup of coffee. (The coffee would be a good
example because you can sit down and calculate what would happen
to 8 ounces of coffee if it absorbed 1000 watts for say 2
minutes.)

Starting at what temperature? If you actually know how
to do this calculation and compare it to what happens in a
microwave oven, it will show that microwave absorption is
remarkably efficient.


There is almost no difference between an empty oven and many of
the typical things heated in the oven.

Completely wrong.


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--Bryan
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