What actually puzzles me most is the contention that when you double the quantity you must double the time to cook. If a given sausage is cooked in one minute and you want two, it seems they are done (split from steam) before the full two minutes are up.
termed "reciprocity failure"
This site was at the top of the Google results for "How efficient is a microwave oven"
I can't restart the old discussion, so I'll start a new thread.
Previous posters came up with numbers from 99% to 46%.
The Wikipedia page offers only this:
"A microwave oven converts only part of its...