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Microwaves and Stove's Similarities and Differences !

By Amy

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! Indeed, microwaves and stoves are as similar as brother and sister. For instance, a similarity is that they both cook and heat up food. For example, they can both pop popcorn, heat leftovers, cook frozen goods, and many others. They are also the two most popular cooking inventions that are the most commonly used to heat and cook food. Simultaneously, citizens in America have at least one microwave and stove. The percentage of people with a microwave is 93.2 percent, and for gas or electric stoves 96.6 percent; they are both in the 90s. Comparatively, they both have an area with a door that can open and close in order to heat something. They are similar because they are box-like shaped. Also, it has a door that can open, which has a compartment to put different kinds of food inside. Then it would heat the food. Therefore, microwaves and stoves have different unique similarities.!

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! In spite of their similarities, microwaves and stoves can also act as enemies, but they are still unique to each other. To ip the coin, this is how the microwave is different. One difference between them would be that microwaves reects, transmits, and absorbs materials in their path. An example of that would be microwaves are energy efcient, it only cooks the food and nothing else. Materials containing water, such as foods, uids or tissues, is readily absorbed by microwave energy, which is then converted into heat. Another difference is, a stove can work with different cooking elements. Ovens can be heated by natural gas or electricity.

Regardless, the inside of an oven will always be hotter than the outside. To wrap it all up, the stove was invented before the microwave. Microwaves were invented in 1947 whereas the rst gas stove ever invented was 1922 by Swedish inventors. Hence, those were the differences about microwaves and stoves.