The invention belongs to a
microwave oven for food cooking. The
microwave oven comprises a
microwave oven casing, a cylindrical oven chamber arranged in the casing, an electric appliance box, a microwave magnetron, an L-shaped
waveguide tube comprising a vertical
waveguide tube and a horizontal rectangular
waveguide tube provided with a waveguide outlet, a
helical antenna, a microwave reflector, a power supply, a fan, a circuit board, an oven door and a panel provided with a circuit control key or knob, wherein the microwave magnetron and the L-shaped waveguide tube are arranged in the electric appliance box. The
microwave oven adopts the cylindrical oven chamber, so that eight useless
energy storage dead angles of the traditional oven chamber are eliminated; the circularly polarized
helical antenna is taken as a microwave radiator, the rotation speed of the
helical antenna is working frequency of a microwave source, uniformity of microwave
radiation and heating of heated objects are effectively improved, the
utilization rate of energy is effectively increased, and
heating time is shortened. Thus, the
microwave oven has the characteristics that the structure is simple, an oven body is light, microwave
radiation and heating of the heated objects are uniform, the
utilization rate of the energy and the energy efficiency are high, the
heating time is short, the service life is long, the production cost is low and the like.