Posted on 11/02/2024 11:37:11 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Have fun it is Saturday before election day, flame away.
I hate microwave ovens.
I do not have a microwave oven. A counter top convection oven works great for us. Food tastes better. I can boil water on the stove or my electric kettle.
Nope. No soggy chemical food in the Jackson kitchen.
Yeah, I’m not going to worry about it.
1970’s nerds who think it makes food radioactive. I know a guy who is like that.
Microwave ovens have something named a, “Magnetron,” with the word, “Microwave” being the key word, which fires radio waves into the food AND into YOU if you are standing too close! Of course, they are not ‘safe!’ They put a screen on the door but it does not stop all of the waves from getting to you! It is why they recommend that people with cardiac-pacemakers should not get too close to a mircrowave oven while it is cooking your food and shooting all of that radio-wave stuff at you! ;-)
I worked with a guy years ago who wouldn’t stay in the room if one was running. The early ones did have some leakage. I was eventually able to convince him that they were safe to use.
My wife would kill me if she came home and there was no microwave to reheat her coffee. She makes a pot in the AM, then allows it to cool. When she makes a new pot in the morning, she is drinking Mic’d cup or cups. I use it to heat up leftovers for addition to the dogs bowl. I prefer the pan on the stove, for cooking or steaming. To me, it takes up too much space.
How much food prep is done in restaurants with the microwave? I think we would be very surprised.
Oh, great. As if Kamala wasn’t enough to worry about.
They are not for cooking, they are for heating something up after its already cooked.
OH NOOOOES! I’m gonna die! adding the microwave to my list of 527 different ways I’m going to die. and that’s just this years list. destroyed last years list, ironically, in the microwave. we would have burned it in the hibachi but toxic smoke you know.
I have loved microwave ovens since my family first got one in the 1970s. My dad bought us goodies all the time from the “day old” Hostess bakery which sold Hostess snacks which were past their pull date. They were not that great until you freshened them up with the micowave. I knew a miracle when I saw it.
I had a customer who used her built in microwave for storage because she was told how deadly they are, an example being that microwaved water (cooled) would kill your house plants for some reason.
Personally, I consider them one of the most unsung advancements made at the consumer level, very Star Treky and magical.
I rarely use mine. Whole beets are hard to get cooked and tender. I microwave them.
TV dinners, and other microwaveable foods. On the rare occassion when I want a Pot pie...... chicken pot pies are amazing, I use the stove. I want the crust crisp and crumbling. The Wife? The microwave is magic. Whereas we used to have an air popper for popcorn, we use bags. It is easier, and is tasty, BUT.
When I had a big microwave cooking bowl with a lid I liked cooking big chunks of cut up vegetables in the microwave, red potatoes, carrots, quartered onions, sort of steamed with almost no water.
Sous vide is great for that.
“Sous vide is great for that.”
How many hours for whole beets? 3? I do not own one. But have seen how one youtube guy took cheap chuck roast. Did sous vide to it, then finished it in a frying pan. He said it was as good as rib eye.
The word "microwave" comes from the oven generating very, very high frequency radio energy; in the frequency band referred to as the "microwave radio band". Long-distance telephony was in part made possible by the use of microwaves to span miles and miles of distance (line of sight).
The "radar range" as the early products were called, got their start during the Cold War. Radar was used to detect attacks by missiles and jet bombers. One of the operators was out in front of the antenna; he had a chocolate bar in his pocket. Which melted. Oops. Operators also discovered they could heat themselves up a bit, too.
Microwave ovens, which operate in the 2.8-GHz range, don't heat all the stuff. Instead, the ovens heat water, which can then heat up everything else. Think of it as steam cooking.
By the way, our wireless routers use the same frequencies (at much, much lower power) because that particular part of the spectrum isn't useful for other than short-range communication...like from your computer to the Internet.
The reason that people with pacemakers are told not to stand too close is that the radio waves can really screw up the electronics in the pacemaker. Don't try to use your computer within a few feet of a microwave, because the leakage will overpower your device's WiFi receiver, thus you get lousy performance.
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