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Zero999:

--- Quote from: ogden on August 13, 2019, 06:34:34 am ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on August 12, 2019, 08:42:35 pm ---Microwaving is the most healthy way to cook certain foods, such as vegetables, because it doesn't excessively heat them or add fat like frying does or require them to be submerged in water which washes out some of the nutrients.

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Try steaming. You will never use microwave for vegetables again. All you need - steaming insert for pot you already have. It is hard to manage heat your food receive in microwave because it is proportional to mass/water_content/power ratio.  I want to eat, not math class. Pot, electric oven and multipot are much better at actual cooking. Not to mention pan which as you already mentioned, is uncontested by microwave. Disclaimer: I do love microwave and use it often, but not for cooking.
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Steaming is still not as healthy as microwaving because it's above boiling point, but it does cook more evenly.

What do you use your microwave for if you don't cook with it?

coppice:

--- Quote from: thm_w on August 13, 2019, 01:27:36 am ---Do you pay for reactive power?

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No domestic consumers pay for reactive power, although introducing charges has been discussed in some countries. In some places some large industrial consumers either pay for reactive power, or pay a punishment factor if their power factor is too bad too much of the time.

In most countries there are strict controls over how electrical energy may be charged. For example, most European countries follow the Welmec practices for most forms of legal metrology, including electrical energy.

ogden:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on August 13, 2019, 09:22:32 am ---Steaming is still not as healthy as microwaving because it's above boiling point, but it does cook more evenly.

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Steaming in regular pot is precisely at the boiling pot point, at max. I did not advise to use pressure pot to steam vegetables :) BTW do you know about microwave hotspots - reason why plate or special reflector shall rotate?


--- Quote ---What do you use your microwave for if you don't cook with it?

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Heating food which for some reason is below temperature of tasty consumption.

thm_w:
Yeah I'll agree with ogden here, steaming is going to be ~100C max no matter what.
Put a piece of cheese in the microwave for 10 minutes and let me know how black it gets.

Not that the microwave is unhealthy in any way. But generally you need to get up to 150+C? to start running into issues. ie frying, deep frying, BBQ, using trash oil like soybean, etc.


--- Quote ---Microwaving did not raise dAGE content to the same extent as other dry heat cooking methods for the relatively short cooking times (6 minutes or less) that were tested.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704564/
https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-quest-for-optimal-cooking-oil-heat.html

Red Squirrel:
Microwaves arn't really good at cooking nor are they really meant for it.  They are for reheating.  For real cooking you want a source of radiating heat like from a fire or a hot stove element, or even just hot air/steam.   The way microwaves cook is just different and you'll never get the same kind of result from it.   It also depends on the type of food though, some foods it won't matter while others it will. 

Putting eggs in the microwave for example is a really bad idea (but it's fun as long as it's not your microwave.  :-DD )

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