Why is it important to wipe up spills in microwaves befor cooking food?!

Imagine the microwave's cooking rays bouncing around, cooking all your food!. Now imagine food splattered all over the interior of the microwave in addition to the food you're trying to heat!.

The same energy expended on heating your food is also cooking all the splatters, which slows down the heating time and is inefficient!.

Scrub those splatters off - nobody wants to see that stuff, man!.

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Because then the microwave gets a weird smell, and that smell can possible go into the next food you cook!.

So if you cook pasta and it spills, then you want to heat up something sweet without cleaning up the mess, it's possible that your sweet food will catch some of that pasta taste in itWww@FoodAQ@Com

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For one thing, the odor of the previously cooked food will invade the food you are cooking, for another, it makes it really hard to clean after it has "baked" on!. It's easiest to clean right after the spill while it's still warm!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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One thing not mentioned here yet apart from the smell & sanitary reasons is that when food spills are left in a microwave & are constantly recooked they get hard baked on!.!.!.this then actually becomes reflective starts to smoke & can catch fire inside the microwave!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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Well its sanitary!. You don't want your microwave to be sticky and messy and smelly!. The spills will ruin the other food you heat!. A dirty microwave is gross!. Www@FoodAQ@Com

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well for one its unsanitary but also the temp will change when there is more dirt in the microwave it will cook food unevenly!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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They will bake on and be harder to clean!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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