Microwave, cooking, evenness, and heating speeds
Chet, you’re comparing to run-of-the-mill microwaves you should really broaden your experience. There have been many interesting things made in the world while I’m glad that you find happiness with a cheap Asian built microwave that doesn’t have a turntable. It’s hardly the best microwave ever built for home use.
All microwaves have some evenness problems. It’s just the nature of having straight line microwave energy bouncing around in a metal box trying to find the food, generally the best most even cooking microwaves are ones that have both turntable and a wave stirrer. It’s definitely beneficial to cook foods at lower powers, especially when just reheating because it gives the food time to even out the temperature and it doesn’t damage food at the edges, etc. from overheating it. This is a must when defrosting.
It’s too bad you can’t come out of your comfort zone enough to ever come and see, the 30 or 40 microwaves we have in our collection there are models that cook from multiple directions at once and of course the collection of micro thermal ovens that are the truly the winners for Speed and even cooking, we have 14 micro thermal self cleaning oven if you really wanna see something that works These are amazing.
Back on the original topic, the tide simply products are actually just weak value products. I made the mistake of buying several bottles for a dollar a bottle at a flea market and it’s OK if things aren't dirty, I guess, but I wouldn’t waste my money on it .
What are the best deals on detergent right now? Aldi‘s premium liquid laundry detergent It actually has seven different enzymes and it works very well and is moderate cost. If you’re trying to save money, Costco’s products are also very good.
I always have lots of different detergent choices when doing laundry, I almost always use powered Tide and add some liquid Aldi as well. Its not a great idea to always use the same detergent, all detergents have different properties both good and bad [ its just like shampoo or DW detergent ] You should switch them out from time for best results.
John