Is it better to place the food in the center of or on the edge of a microwave turntable?
In searching, the internet seems very divided on this question. I want to achieve microwaving nirvana.
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Fun experiment: take your turntable out, place in a large plate with pieces of the shittiest American cheese slices. We are talking kraft single serves. Splay them out, no deeper than one layer thick is needed, but make a full cover of the microwave bed (on top of the plate though. You will make a mess if not). Then you simply cook the shit out of it. You will see the cheese bubble and burn in the microwave wave peaks and you will see cold cheese in the wave troughs.
And then you pull out a ruler and measure how far apart the middles of the bubbles are. Look up the frequency of your microwave and then use that to calculate the speed of light with nothing but fucking cheese, a microwave and a ruler.
Is that you, Brian Cox?
No, I'm Harald Lesch.
Chocolate chips are easier.
This is a fun experiment, but it's not precisely the peaks and troughs of the actual waves themselves that you're seeing, it's the maximums and minimums of the amplitude from those waves interfering with their reflections. You see the interference pattern, not the waves.