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People who have inverter microwaves, do they actually heat food more evenly or is it just marketing buzz?
dunno what an inverting thing is but I suspect uneven heating is due to different food's physics properties so uhm...
We have a Panasonic inverting one that has a flat bed (no turn table) and it doesn't heat evenly...
Don't all microwave ovens have an inverter? Like, isn't that the thing that produces the photons?
No, that's the magnetron. Normal microwave magnetrons have 2 power settings, on and off, and reducing the microwave's power just means switching the magnetron on and off at different intervals.
An inverter just allows to keep the magnetron running at a lower power. Whether that has a better effect than just on/off-switching the magnetron I do not know, but it's probably more energy efficient over long usage periods.
Ahhh thank you, I'm getting my words mixed up.
I would imagine having an inverter would allow you to avoid situations where individual parts heat too quickly during your heat cycle, but the advantage probably isn't that big. Afterall, you could just heat it at a slightly lower power to stop whatever overheating effect you're troubled with.