Microwave oven | Samsung MW5592W [9] [10] | Samsung MW5592W [11] | Panasonic Mn-5853C [12] | Toshiba ER-754BTC [13] |
Microorganism (growth temperature) | Bacteriophage T4 and T7 (37˚C) | Bacteriophage T4 (37˚C) | E. coli C29 (37˚C) | E. coli C29 (10, 26 and 37˚C) |
Microwave CW power | 1000 W* | 1000 W* | 800 W | 650 W |
microwave power setting | Full power | Full power | Medium to low power | 5 out of 9 levels |
Estimated applied power | 1000 W | 1000 W | 400 W | 325 W |
Rotating glass carousel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oven volume | 1 cuft* (28.3 L) | 1 cuft* (28.3 L) | Not given | Not given |
Ice bath | 10 ml frozen ice centrifuge tube** | packed ice in 1 L glass beaker | 500 ml glass beaker filled with ice | N/A |
Ice water bath | N/A | N/A | Large bucket | |
suspension vol. and vessel | 4 ml in 30 ml centrifuge tube** | 0.5 ml in glass Petri dish** | 10 ml in 50 ml beaker** | 10 ml in Petri dish*** |
Irradiation time (s) | 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 | 10, 20, 30, 40 | 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 | 20, 40 |
Final suspension temperature | 60˚C at 20 s [9] Not given [10] | Not given | 29˚C at 40 s | 26˚C ± 1˚C |