What would happen if the plate didn't rotate?
2006-08-22 06:57:42 · 18 answers · asked by Dave 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
It's set to rotate so that the food on the plate that you're trying to warm up gets warmed up evenly all over the plate.
If you don't have a rotating plate, it will still warm it up, but you may have to manually rotate certain things, if your microwave does not evenly warm the food all the way around.
2006-08-22 07:03:59 · answer #1 · answered by WhoMe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some cheaper microwave ovens don't have the rotating plate. Food heats up unevenly. In order to cook it evenly without the rotating plate, you have to stop the microwave, rotate the food by hand, turn it on again.
It has to do with the fact that it is technically difficult to build a microwave that has uniform electromagnetic standing wave inside.
2006-08-22 07:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The radio waves (something like radar) produced do not penetrate uniformly inside the item being cooked. Rotating the plate helps make more uniform heating. If it didn't rotate, some part(s) may be colder, especially inside.That's why some recipes specify rotating a quarter turn midway in the cooking process.
2006-08-22 07:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by mogul264 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea is that the food cooks or reheats more evenly if the plate rotates. Nothing bad would happen if it didn't rotate, but your food might not be heated the same all the way through.
2006-08-22 07:05:06 · answer #4 · answered by tarheel mom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like everyone else said its supposed to cook the food evenly. For the microwaves that dont have a plate you have to open the door of the microwave and rotate your food item to cook it evenly. Although the microwaves that dont have a plate have higher voltage so that it will heat up the food faster so in theory you wouldnt need the plate. Heres a cool thing to do, place a CD in the microwave and see what happens.
2006-08-22 07:30:34 · answer #5 · answered by FILA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the oven is insufficient without the rotating plate. (Crappy oven!) The food will not be evenly cooked if the plate didn't rotate.
The better microwave ovens does not have a rotating plate.
2006-08-22 07:05:33 · answer #6 · answered by curious 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if the plate don't rotate, food would not be cooked equally. Thus it's rotatating.
2006-08-22 07:05:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To heat the food. Microwave-ovens work by heating the water molecules in the food, that's why if you over cook something it is dry as bone.
2006-08-22 07:08:24 · answer #8 · answered by J23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the waves come from one spot in the microwave so you have to spin the food so it is evenly cooked from all sides, if the plate didn't spin then only one side of the food would get the most waves.
2006-08-22 07:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by mack j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
microwave don't bombard the food evenly, there are spots in the oven that are "hotter" than other- the plate help heat evenly
2006-08-22 07:04:00 · answer #10 · answered by R J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋