Big, bulky food tends to heat unevenly in even the best microwaves. One side of the item becomes unbearably hot, while the other is still cold. The proposed microwave would have a low-resolution infrared camera and five small magnetrons. When the evencook feature is selected, the oven first turns on all the magnetrons at the same power, waiting for the item to initially warm up. After the item is warmed, the camera looks at the item and finds the cold spots. The magnetrons, which are aimed at different areas in the oven, cycle on and off accordingly, thus heating more evenly heating the food.
-- fogfreak, Dec 19 2005

Camera in the microwave Microwave_20Vision
[DrCurry, Dec 20 2005]

Could a camera even determine that the center was still too cold?
-- bungston, Dec 20 2005


Isn't this why Microwaves rotate?
-- Germanicus, Dec 20 2005


Microwaves rotate to even out the distribution of exposure of the product. However, the food doesn't always heat up or absorb the waves at the say rate, a la something with frost on it.
-- fogfreak, Dec 21 2005


Hell yeah, this would rock, and it would also stop that stupid microwave habit of heating the plate not the frozen thing as the plate is wet and the thing is not! That drives me insane!! WORSE still is when the bowl heats up as its ceramic and has a crack in it and got soaked up with water when it went through the dishwasher! Can we have a aiming dishwasher too that only attacks the dirty bits and leaves things perfect and not tainted!?
-- UK_inthe_NZ, Dec 22 2005


I was hoping this was about a new way of waving to someone in a crowd far away, using only the tip of your little finger
-- xenzag, Dec 22 2005


(pokes [xenzag]) Were you honestly, or does it just amuse you to find the rather tenuous alternative interpretation?
-- david_scothern, Dec 22 2005


ds - could also be the opposite of a tsunami, carefully targeted at an individual sand castle on a beach.
-- xenzag, Dec 22 2005


Actually yeah, that one's good...
-- david_scothern, Dec 23 2005


or single flick of hair that hangs down in front of your eye when you are pointing a gun, with no rear sight.... had enough?
-- xenzag, Dec 23 2005


Eh? Ming my crow, waif.
-- Ian Tindale, Dec 23 2005


could it cook - i moms avarice wing - ? an old family favourite.
-- rainbow, Dec 24 2005


That's a clever palindrome.
-- Ian Tindale, Dec 24 2005


i give maniac worms? to cook?

i know, too much free time.
-- rainbow, Dec 24 2005


way too much.
-- rainbow, Dec 24 2005


yikes! it's the "parlor devil menace" (anagram of "a clever palindrome") totally sorry for this on Christmas day, of all days.
-- xenzag, Dec 25 2005


'mad scary shit' comes but once a year.
-- rainbow, Dec 25 2005



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