Microwave oven

摘要

A method of controlling a microwave oven, in which the microwave oven includes a cooking chamber (12) for containing food therein, a cooling fan (11b) which circulates air, a magnetron (11a) which generates microwaves and a humidity sensor (17) which senses humidity of the cooking chamber. Cooking instructions may be preset or set manually by a user. A first cooking operation is performed while preventing water from boiling off/overflowing by controlling the output power of the magnetron (11a) according to the set cooking instruction(s). A time (T2) required to perform a second cooking operation is set based on a time (T1) required to perform the first cooking operation. The second cooking operation is performed for the second cooking time (T2) while steam boiling the food. <IMAGE>