microwaves are stupid.

[kingjames488]

how can something be half frozen and half molten lava at the same time?

stupid idea... what was wrong with taking 10 minutes longer and heating things evenly?!

[Dracoco OwO]

Microwave oven tend to be less bad than standard microwave and have a more consistant cooking or heating in general.

[Birds]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dracoco OwO:

Microwave oven tend to be less bad than standard microwave and have a more consistant cooking or heating in general.

There are 2 scatter patterns, 1 that does a full 360 degree scatter and a polarized one that only does a few degrees and makes up with rotation.

Microwave ovens tend to prefer the full 360, but mine uses a polarized scatter so it often heats unevenly left to its own devices.

[kingjames488]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fajita Jim:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Acetyl:

Microwaves heat by dielectric loss in water, which exists in a structured / bound state around hydrophilic materials like proteins. Causing them to spin 2.4 billion times per second to stay in pahse with the field is not comaparable to heating by other means. It's also not all just the rate and distribution of heating (ie "microheating") either, hough that non-uniform coupling can play a role at higher power densities.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/ask-the-doctor-microwaves-impact-on-food

I've heard the same question from many of my patients about microwave cooking. It is so convenient that some people worry that it's "too good to be true." People have expressed two concerns to me. The first is that our exposure to the microwaves might somehow injure our bodies. To make a long story short, there is no evidence of this.

The second is the concern you mention: that microwave cooking might damage the nutrients in our food. It is true that cooking food by any method does tend to cause some of the nutrients to break down. Cooking damages the chemical structure of the nutrient, to some degree. However, there are plenty of nutrients left. And cooking kills many microbes that might have contaminated the food—and might have caused health problems.

However, microwave cooking is actually one of the least likely forms of cooking to damage nutrients. That's because the longer food cooks, the more nutrients tend to break down, and microwave cooking takes less time. So cooking a roast in an oven is more likely to cause some loss of nutrients than cooking the roast in a microwave. And boiling vegetables is more likely to rob them of nutrients than either cooking them in the oven or microwaving them. That's because some nutrients leach out of the food into the water.

So microwave cooking is not only fast, it's also sometimes nutritionally advantageous. Of course, I've ignored an important question: does food cooked in a microwave taste any different from the same food cooked in an oven? I leave the answer to your palate.

—Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.
Editor in Chief
Harvard Health Letter

I think this has to be an old atomic era myth... kinda like how people say "nuke it" referring to microwaving something.

like how they used to have all these radioactive remadies and "health products" then discovered that radiation wasn't a good thing and everyone became super weary of "invisible danger".

some people just don't know the difference between microwaves and ionizing radiation...

[saranacX]

Microwaves have their place. I use mine as little as possible, but some things are fine in it.

[peter purvis]

I heat my food with the cosmic microwave background radiation. It's not as fast, but hey it's free!

[GunsForBucks]

I have had one for decades and never use it. Not even plugged in and buried in a back room.

The door seals go bad over time and should not be used if leaking microwaves. Even if I wanted to use one now I think I should probably buy a new one rather than use an old one.

I like to make stuff myself. Microwaves to me are best for reheating but even then things like pizza are just terrible tasting compared to heating it normally. I don't care about lost energy I am paying for it. Not like they are storing it in batteries if it isn't being used. Generators need to run over capacity or we would have constant brown outs.

[⍚MagusFromHeaven⍚]

Because microwaves don't have braincells

[kingjames488]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GunsForBucks:

I have had one for decades and never use it. Not even plugged in and buried in a back room.

The door seals go bad over time and should not be used if leaking microwaves. Even if I wanted to use one now I think I should probably buy a new one rather than use an old one.

I like to make stuff myself. Microwaves to me are best for reheating but even then things like pizza are just terrible tasting compared to heating it normally. I don't care about lost energy I am paying for it. Not like they are storing it in batteries if it isn't being used. Generators need to run over capacity or we would have constant brown outs.

what? the seals go bad? microwaves aren't something that floats around in the air...

the microwaves can't get through that screen on the front you can literally see through, you'd have to have the door pretty much hanging open for it to be leaking microwaves.

[GunsForBucks]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von kingjames488:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GunsForBucks:

I have had one for decades and never use it. Not even plugged in and buried in a back room.

The door seals go bad over time and should not be used if leaking microwaves. Even if I wanted to use one now I think I should probably buy a new one rather than use an old one.

I like to make stuff myself. Microwaves to me are best for reheating but even then things like pizza are just terrible tasting compared to heating it normally. I don't care about lost energy I am paying for it. Not like they are storing it in batteries if it isn't being used. Generators need to run over capacity or we would have constant brown outs.

what? the seals go bad? microwaves aren't something that floats around in the air...

the microwaves can't get through that screen on the front you can literally see through, you'd have to have the door pretty much hanging open for it to be leaking microwaves.

IDK I guess that could just be made up stuff to make people buy more microwaves. Not a thing I made up. Not my problem though.

edit add - also keep in mind they don't shoot directly from the back outward. I have no idea but just assume they have a pattern they shoot out from the sides or more probably top but I have no clue about any of that.

[Tsubame ⭐]

That is physics for you.

Anyway, microwaves are very fast to use.

Especially good for reheating things.

The main issue for me is not the eveness of the heat, but the fact that it cannot be used to cook "crispy" things - instead, everything tends to be soggier, especially fried leftovers.

Not for everything, but for the things it heats well, it heats really well.

Time is money. An oven still needs to heat itself before it can heat anything, so you are looking at even more time there. A microwave gets things done in 1-5 minutes tops.

[Pieshaman]

I always use oven instead of microwave.
quality of my food is just better from oven than microwave. especially meat.

[gza]

If you aint air frying, what are you doing?

[Daenoxiis]

Relevant:

https://youtu.be/fuZ7NoIz0Zc?si=XKwVuGV236Ba_gM8

[kingjames488]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Tsubame ⭐:

That is physics for you.

Anyway, microwaves are very fast to use.

Especially good for reheating things.

The main issue for me is not the eveness of the heat, but the fact that it cannot be used to cook "crispy" things - instead, everything tends to be soggier, especially fried leftovers.

Not for everything, but for the things it heats well, it heats really well.

Time is money. An oven still needs to heat itself before it can heat anything, so you are looking at even more time there. A microwave gets things done in 1-5 minutes tops.

you can crisp things in a microwave kinda... but it involves having metal in there and is probably more complicated than it sounds.

they used to have some microwavable panini things that'd get crispy tho.

tho I kinda like toaster ovens for heating things, they only take like a minute to heat up.

[Not Big Surprise]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Acetyl:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fajita Jim:

Heat is what denatures nutrients. Microwaves cook faster and thus the food maintains more nutrients than cooking on a stove/oven.

Microwaves heat by dielectric loss in water, which exists in a structured / bound state around hydrophilic materials like proteins. Causing them to spin 2.4 billion times per second to stay in pahse with the field is not comaparable to heating by other means. It's also not all just the rate and distribution of heating (ie "microheating") either, hough that non-uniform coupling can play a role at higher power densities.

yeah
and it's much more efficient than pushing heat from below and having most of it pass by the side and leave

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Irene ❤:

Air fryer = makes food dry and hard
Microwave = certain parts are cold

Hot water steam is the best method.
For cold food / frozen chicken / etc just steam it.
Tasteful, delicious and juicy.

the microwave doesn't leave the center cold if you know how to use it