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Summary: Learn how to look for gross an dirty messes that normally go unseen before cleaning a microwave in this free how-to video on cleaning a microwave.
Jennifer Cail has been cooking and baking since she could reach the stove at the age of 4. She has been studying pastry-making almost as long, going so far as to meet the White House...read more
"Hi! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to clean your microwave from the inside out. Now that we have all of our supplies ready, it's time to look inside our microwave. Before you start cleaning, you want to see what type of stains and messes that you have inside because you're going to use different cleaning techniques if it's baked on food versus if you have some oily greasy residues. If you were melting butter and it kind of exploded in everywhere, you're going to want more soap versus some of the baked on stuff, which you can just wipe away with your cloth or sponge. You just want to start by seeing what comes up within an initial wipe. Some of this is coming up, but obviously, some of it is not. We've got some loose particles in here, which can come off like that. You see we've also got some other things in here. Based on that, we're going to start with our next steps. We're going to take some of the items out of the microwave to clean separately. You don't want to be cleaning your microwave while you've got a rack right in the middle of it, so let's take care of that next before we move on to some more cleaning."
eHow Article: How to Look for Messes in a Microwave