jinx, what does microwaving do to your food?
 

Other hippie wacko extremists feel free to answer as well. I'm asking because we have a microwave in our new house.

Makes it taste like shit?
Makes you more likely to eat processed garbage foods.

We have one upstairs, near the mini fridge, for popcorn and reheating, but not in the kitchen. Although the steam in bag veggie concept is making me rethink that.

I can tell you how a microwave differs from anal sex.



It won't brown your meat!

What's it do to your food... it heats any water molecules in it, by making them move around really fast.

This will cause other surrounding molecules to also become heated when the water molecules bump into them and cause them to move, too.

The thing that irritates me about microwaves is their inability to heat evenly. But in general, they don't destroy more nutrients than other forms of cooking. (The most nutrient-destroying method of cooking is boiling, but you mostly get them back if you're also drinking the liquid, like in a soup.)

gives you cancer. according to my hippie wacko extremist BD#2 who eschews having a microwave in her home.

I couldn't figure out how to throw away garbage in Portland, either.

It fucks up your wine and your drywall.


Actually, that's fake. But it's fun to pretend

I appreciate microwaves for cooking vegetables and reheating certain things (rice, particularly, goes very well.) Instead of a plastic bag, you can use a glass bowl with saran wrap over top, or even a plate.

I agree though that it does make it easier and thus more compelling to rely on shitty frozen foods.

For reheating leftovers I really prefer to use a pan (the uneven heating argument, largely; although you can mitigate it if you heat for longer on lower heat, and stir once or twice.)

I think with modern microwaves the health risks are negligible.

(I do not presently own a microwave, but the cafe where I work is reliant on one.)

A microwave is only good for reheating coffee,popping popcorn and heating some leftovers. I need new one since the one I own was hers and is a relic but small. It's not an easy task to find a tiny microwave. It looks like the one in SN's video.

My dad's mom owned a convection oven.Now THAT you can cook with.

( memories ) She also told me about thigh high stockings. For an 80 something mid western prim elementary teacher she had some cool things going for her.

If she were alive she would be 103. She lived to be 93 and hardly ever used a microwave. Coincidence?

Isn't there a toxin issue with microwave popcorn?

I think it was with the buttered popcorn. I am not sure how that was resolved or if it was home use vs in factory exposure.

I only pop the natural lightly salted popcorn so I don't know all of the details.

Several, I think. They stopped using diacetyl but people are still bitching about teflon.

We have a convection toaster oven, gets used every day. The kids call it the microwave.

I would too if I had one and I do want one. More energy efficient than an oven I am sure.

Uneven heating isn't as much of an issue with a powerful unit and a turntable, but the food should still stand for a couple minutes. Part of the problem is uneven distribution of moisture/oil throughout the food, along with the speed at which it heats. Very moist things, like sauces/soups heat pretty evenly because they self circulate.

Oh, and break the yolks or they will explode.;)

eww I have never nuked an egg! You bachelor you.

(well maybe not but who else would microwave an egg!)
:stickpoke (teasing)


Good tips on a power nuker though;)

I think there's an issue with cooking with certain kinds of plastic dishes and wrapping.

maybe it's the microwaves that are causing autism, since the vaccines don't. The timing would be about right.

I don't know. Bruce has probably been cooking with a microwave since the dawn of time and he is totally non autistic. I think.

not serious. but we're going to find out that some of our current ills are caused by completely ordinary things. like nail polish or aluminum foil.

nail polish REMOVER is the debbil - just smelling it makes me ill. It gets stuck in your nostrils, mucous membranes . . . Ewww! I can smell it for hours & I don't ever use it except for when I'm stripping something.

Microwave Ovens are far better then conventional ovens for drying wet animals because they don't have any hot parts inside.

Also, the have great Science Fair potential, especially in combinations with eggs and metal.

What?

I know you were joking clod.

There is probably a longer list than just those two items.
It's enough to make someone fraught with worry but worry can cause harm just as easily.

I guess we can change what is obvious and hope for the best outcome when things are only vague.

I know you were talking about polish remover but you said nail polish so my brain kept wanting to rearrange what you said to make sense. :blush:

I read that too!

Dr. weil says:

My mother had boiled and dyed some Easter eggs. We brought some home to make egg salad but the yolks were still liquid. I had the bright idea of peeling and microwaving them, which seemed to work fine... until I bit into one (still hot). The sumbitch nearly blew my teeth out and they were real teeth. I figured it was because the white was already cooked from boiling, and trapped the pressure in. Wrong! Starting from raw, the damn things explode too, but at least they don't wait until you bite them.

Since 1973.

Even plastics labeled microwave safe, can melt if there is fat (grease, butter, cheese) directly in contact. Water can only get to 212 degrees (sometimes under certain conditions superheated), but fat can get to several hundred degrees.

That sounds about right. I think the microwave we had in the 70s was hardier built that some I see these days.

There are some cheap looking and functioning microwave doors. I just wonder how it is able to contain all those waves.

Paid about $500 in '73, for a Sharp carousel that last 25 years and a month, of heavy use. The second one lasted a little over 10 years, but only cost less than $150. The current one was seriously cheap.

I still have the carousel out of the first one, for turning small stuff I want to spray paint.

If the door leaks microwaves, it'll warm you up while you're waiting for your chow.;)

I remember Sears coming out a year after we got our Kenmore Microwave and running a Geiger counter over it. I was a little freaked out by that......but I think that must have been 1980 or so.....

Not a Geiger counter. :lol2:

Microwave measuring meter. I bought one 25 years ago from Brookstone. I measured every microwave oven I could find, and every one I've owned since then. Never found a hint of a leak.

It makes me think the meter is broken, but I can't afford a microwave meter measuring meter.

My father still uses the gigantic Kenmore he bought sometime in the 70s. It has manual timer and heat knobs, is built like a tank--I want to say I was at least 9 before I was strong enough to pull down the door by myself--and it still works great.

it was a fucking geiger counter to me, pappy!

It heats it up. Do we really care beyond that?

If we do... it just jiggles the molecules, makes them move fast. But not fast enough to jump. unless maybe you put the plastic shit right next to your food.

Microwave in ceramic or expensive tupperware, no cling film. And don't use it to actiually cook stuff. Defrost and reheat.

Your brain will stay in tact if you watch the food cooking through the little window. Trust me. I'm a Dr. You may get very bored, though, after the first or second time. Unless you're sub-vegetable in the IQ stakes. or a Dr. in microwaving.

If you get bored, you're microwaving boring stuff. Solution.:D

Healthwise, there's some evidence you shouldn't microwave stuff in many kinds of plastic. But that's not a problem with the microwaves themselves; except insofar as they let you heat stuff up in plastic at all.

I think the most important attribute is that when you spill liquid it won't run through. I think it is time for a new microwave.:blush:

Speaking as a pet "owner"...very bad joke.

:lol:

My (non cooking literate) wife microwaved an egg. I still haven't gotten it all off the kitchen ceiling.

Why oh why do people do stuff like this!

shits and grins :D

A guy blew the door off the microwave with an egg at my workplace (two careers ago). Stank the lunchroom up to high heaven. :headshake

Did it coincide with his handing in his resignation? Imagine fish stew with an uncracked egg floating in it..... program for 10 minutes on way to bosses office.... "That's it, I quit!".... hit start on way past......