What’s the difference between a microwave oven and an oven?

When it comes to quality, ovens usually win out . Microwaves just heat food – they don’t do anything else. On the other hand, ovens can do things like caramelize and crisp food, too. That’s because microwaves excite the water in your food and keep the edges from turning brown and tasty.

Microwave oven, or better known as microwave, uses electromagnetic radiation for heating and cooking. On the other hand, oven is a general term for a thermally insulated chamber which is used for heating, cooking or baking food. Microwave oven heats food efficiently with safe radiation.

Microwave ovens cook foods by injecting them with, surprise, microwaves —a form of energy. These electromagnetic waves are invisible to the human eye and fall between radio waves, which are longer in wavelength, and infrared waves, which are shorter.

The simple answer is yes; you can use your microwave as an oven . However, for that to be possible, you need to have a convection oven. In ovens that come with a convection mode, the appliance will behave like any regular oven and can be used to bake bread, cakes, cookies, or anything else you would want to bake.