Do you "nuke" your food?

[plained]

yea plain ol logic and simple common sense!

[[xeno]Julios]

how come things like eggs turn rubbery when you microwave them?

[Big Kahuna Burger]

yeah to reheat pasta and whatnot, but never really cooking in it. except when im really drunk and crave pizza rolls then yes

[vileliquid1026]

I usually just eat everything cold... like soup out of the can or pizza out of the fridge. If i DO nuke it... it's only for like 20 seconds.

[S@M]

great for re-heating coffee

sounds sacreligious - must taste like crap when re-heated,
on the other hand, if my coffee goes cold, I just drink it anyways

[tnf]

Each year when we discuss nuclear chemistry one of the first questions I get is "do microwaves make food radioactive?" So I can vouch for there being a lot of misconceptions out there about how they work. Sometimes I just say yes and keep going without missing a step.
But I don't use them that often either, maybe microwave a bag of popcorn once every 3 months or so. The thing I hate most about microwaving frozen food is the all-too-common microwaved food that is hotter than the Sun on the outside and still frozen solid on the inside. Nothing better than biting into ice crystals at the center of a microwaved burrito that is almost too hot to touch. hehe.

You gotta put the burrito on the outside of the plate so it's not in the center which doesnt get as much power.

I've eaten about one microwave burrito a year for the last 5 or 6, but I recall trying all the positioning tricks you can think of. The best solution I found was to let the burrito thaw for a bit in the refrigerator before zapping it, but that sort of defeated the convenience of the microwave. No big deal though.

[Fender]

Don't you yankees have like 9-billion-watt microwaves? Over here they top out around 1200w

I think 1100 watts is pretty much the standard here now.

[tnf]

yea plain ol logic and simple common sense!

I notice you came out of character while making some posts for different things lately. Glad to see you hadn't become so enveloped in the other persona that you had forgotten how to write.

[Nightshade]

Each year when we discuss nuclear chemistry one of the first questions I get is "do microwaves make food radioactive?" So I can vouch for there being a lot of misconceptions out there about how they work. Sometimes I just say yes and keep going without missing a step.
But I don't use them that often either, maybe microwave a bag of popcorn once every 3 months or so. The thing I hate most about microwaving frozen food is the all-too-common microwaved food that is hotter than the Sun on the outside and still frozen solid on the inside. Nothing better than biting into ice crystals at the center of a microwaved burrito that is almost too hot to touch. hehe.

You gotta put the burrito on the outside of the plate so it's not in the center which doesnt get as much power.

Erm, I don't think so. It has to do with the way microwaves work, not the placement of the food.

[tnf]

all you are really doing is getting the h2o molecules to spin faster and faster.

[R00k]

I thought it just over-excited all the molecules in whatever you were heating.


I just use it for re-heating, thawing, and occasionally for microwave burritos, to melt butter, to soften tortillas before eating them... stuff like that. Never actually cook with the microwave.

[andyman]

It makes the water molecules move, causing friction (heat)

[Berserker]

Never for cooking, only for heating up leftovers.

[Dark Metal]

I don't have a microwave. Never needed one.

[ForM]

Microwaves are for stupid people.

[R00k]

So you have 3?

[[xeno]Julios]

while microwaves may be safe from a health perspective, i still don't like the rubbery texture that it gives some foods. I haven't used the microwave oven for years - i heat things up in a saucepan when I need to.

[Grudge]

great for re-heating coffee

urgh, I guess you enjoy the taste of tannic acid

[Nightshade]

When I was in high school my friend's parents had a microwave and they always kept a glass of water in it. Their explanation was that they wanted something in the microwave to 'absorb the radiation and prevent a fire breaking out' if the microwave mystically turned itself on. This was something they were quite convinced could actually happen.
Did I mention that they were morons?

[plained]

yea simple common sence and simlpe logic

[tnf]

When I was in high school my friend's parents had a microwave and they always kept a glass of water in it. Their explanation was that they wanted something in the microwave to 'absorb the radiation and prevent a fire breaking out' if the microwave mystically turned itself on. This was something they were quite convinced could actually happen.
Did I mention that they were morons?

Reminds me of a nationally syndicated alternative Christian health advocate that i heard on the radio once and decided to check their website out. This lady was selling things that you put in your refrigerator to 'reverse the negative left-wise spin of the electrons thereby negating the harmful effects of pesticides.' I emailed the lady to ask, irrespective of whether or not reversing 'electron spin' (which really isn't spin as we think of it) would help your health, do they have any data that shows their product does indeed reverse said spin. Apparently I was just a victim of the current dogma that hinders healthcare and prevents us from letting God and science really help us. I still have the email conversation somewhere..it was quite funny.

[plained]

yea plain ol logic and simple common sense!

I notice you came out of character while making some posts for different things lately. Glad to see you hadn't become so enveloped in the other persona that you had forgotten how to write.

haha rubbish!

[Ryoki]

I never use mine.

[andyman]

When I was in high school my friend's parents had a microwave and they always kept a glass of water in it. Their explanation was that they wanted something in the microwave to 'absorb the radiation and prevent a fire breaking out' if the microwave mystically turned itself on. This was something they were quite convinced could actually happen.
Did I mention that they were morons?

Reminds me of a nationally syndicated alternative Christian health advocate that i heard on the radio once and decided to check their website out. This lady was selling things that you put in your refrigerator to 'reverse the negative left-wise spin of the electrons thereby negating the harmful effects of pesticides.' I emailed the lady to ask, irrespective of whether or not reversing 'electron spin' (which really isn't spin as we think of it) would help your health, do they have any data that shows their product does indeed reverse said spin. Apparently I was just a victim of the current dogma that hinders healthcare and prevents us from letting God and science really help us. I still have the email conversation somewhere..it was quite funny.

you should definitly post those emails!


Once I put a carton of fried rice in the microwave and the microwave caught fire and blew sparks out. I had forgot that those little chinese pints of rice have metal handles... lol

[ajerara]

they're great for cooking yams or potatoes, 10 minutes and they're done.