🇬🇧 Microwave oven meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A microwave oven is a kitchen machine that uses invisible energy waves to make your food hot very quickly. You open the door, put in your food, close it, press some buttons, and in just a short time your food is warm or cooked. Unlike a regular oven that gets very hot inside, a microwave oven mostly heats the water inside the food, which is why it works so fast. It’s great for warming leftovers, popping popcorn, or melting cheese, but you should never put metal or foil inside it because that can be dangerous.

Our microwave oven has two modes: ‘Not hot at all’ and ‘So hot it will burn your soul.’

Our microwave oven has one main button: the “I’m starving, hurry up!” button.

The microwave oven turned my cold cocoa into hot cocoa and my tongue into a volcano victim.

The microwave oven is my best friend, because it understands that I cannot wait more than one minute for food.

The microwave oven cooks food so fast because it uses special radio waves to make water molecules in your food vibrate and heat up—basically it tickles your dinner until it gets hot.

Cold and late, Anna finds cold soup and a small plate. She puts the plate in the microwave oven. The microwave oven makes a sound, the light inside turns, and the plate gets warm. She opens the microwave oven, smells warm steam, eats, and smiles. The microwave oven beeps, and her night feels safe. The microwave oven is her friend.

This word is at the B1 level, which means it’s important for understanding and discussing familiar topics like work, school, or leisure. Words at this level help you express your thoughts, opinions, and experiences with more detail.

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