I've tried it with a few different microwaves and it does not work well.
Even with the rotating platter the microwaves still produce hot spots
inside, so as the food spins, whatever parts pass through those hot
spots tend to heat a lot faster.

-Mario

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Peter
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:24 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: RE: [OT] Need help with some thermodynamics concepts (or source
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Silly question: can you use a microwave oven ? The bugs are not affected

by the microwaves afaik, but this needs to be tried. Because if you can,

then you ca control the heating directly into a, and without stirring at

all. And controlling a magnetron on/off or proportionally is not that 
hard. (proportional control actually works - try it - yes if will be off

frequency but the radiation stays in the box - output power is 
proportional to effective anode voltage squared or raised to a higher 
power).

Peter
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