Used vinegar trick, worked pretty well
Either the order is wrong or your doing cleaning wrong
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Idk if this is it, but whenever I use my phone to stitch photos, its default is to order in reverse, so if I select 1,2,3 its order (top to bottom) is 3,2,1
I always silently judge, when they get the order wrong, and now I did it myself...
it was perfectly clean before, idk why you did that
Chronology is hard, I get it. But you're supposed to microwave a soap-soaked sponge for cleaning, then microwave popcorn for eating.
I'm going to take this as evidence that OP travels through time in the opposite direction. From their perspective, the microwave was dirty, so they put a bunch of popcorn and a paper bag in it. All the mess jumped into the bag, and the microwave became clean.
I’m guessing somebody was a fan of Beastmaster back in the 90s?
Found Christopher Nolan!
I like to crack an egg into a coffee mug then set it in the microwave for 10 minutes.
When you hear a pop it’s ready to be cleaned.
I liked it better before
What’s the vinegar trick?
You put water and white vinegar in a bowl and microwave it. The steam will make it easier to clean and everything will smell of white vinegar overpowering any other odour.
⚠️ Edit: I think it's worth mentioning that microwaving water can be dangerous and lead to serious burn injuries. There's a U.S. FDA article about it here.
Specifically, microwave it until it boils. In case that wasn’t obvious.
It is worth noting that you should be careful about heating water in the microwave. If you're using filtered water, and the container you're using is very smooth, it's possible to heat it beyond the boiling point, at which point agitating it can cause it to essentially explode. Ann Reardon talks about it in this video here, and like she also mentions in the video the U.S. FDA has warnings about it on their website here.
I clean my microwave once a month by using a cloth I've rinsed in hot water, and wrung out. If it's particularly grimy I use some mild soap too.
Boil? Just enough to steam.
Wait until you find out how steam works
I’m just going by 100% of the instructions online, which all say “until it boils.”
Southern Living, The Kitchn, The Spruce, Good Housekeeping all say “boil”
Wirecutter doesn’t specifically say boil but it uses the same time that all the other sources do, which is 5 minutes. In my experience, two cups of water will easily boil in 4.5 minutes in most microwaves (cheap potatoes), so there you go. Vinegar or lemon juice isn’t far from water’s boiling temperature.
You can use lemon water as well. Both white vinegar and lemon acidic and have antimicrobial properties.
Whatever it is, I bet maids hate them for it.
I just use cleaning vinegar and a sponge (the cleaning style is a little stronger than the food grade), but I think the "vinegar trick" is filling a bowl or cup up with vinegar, microwaving it for about 5 minutes, and letting it stand. Supposedly the vapors coat the inside and make anything stuck-on easy to wipe off.
Well, vinegar and water. The moisture is what softens the stuck on stuff and the vinegar helps with the smell.
It is like soaking dishes and it works extremely well for dried on/burnt foods.
Its just cleaning with extra steps.
In the majority of cases wiping it out will be quicker.
Fixed
rotate(180deg);
Dirt = falls
Problem = solved
Australian microwaves need cleaning too.
Is there a afterandbefore community?
I think that's just Australia.
Brother, you gotta clean that thing more often.
I bought a lid (looks like a dome) that I put over things in the microwave so the microwave stays clean.
This, get a microwave cover
Confused, did you clean with popcorn?
I've seen worse
Yeah. I'm not posting mine.
That glass plate lifts right out, fyi.
The image clearly shows it was removed and reinserted for the clean, not sure why that needed mentioning
They don’t say it for us lazy folk, this calls for the dishwasher. While mine is too big to fit normally I can set it up on the side so it doesn’t block the rotating arm.
Buy a cover with magnets that sticks to the ceiling of the microwave. Then you just pull it down over your food
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NEVER!!!
Thought this was a post on liminal spaces, for a second.
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