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Microwave ovens

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My mom won't have a microwave oven in the house because she feels they are dangerous. How do you know your microwave is not leaking radiation into your house? Also, I've heard that when you nuke (a word that makes me uncomfortable) your food, you kill all the vitamins. How do you feel about microwave ovens?
 
Those thoughts have all been put to bed by top officials.

I DO have a microwave oven leak detector that I use from time to time to make sure that no
radiation is leaking from the oven.

I once had one that came on when the door was opened. The one that I have now replaces that one.
 
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I use my nukro-wave mainly for re-heating leftovers, melting butter & chocolate, and making popcorn. Lotsa folks even actually "cook" in them- and more power to them!

Micro-waves are no longer a new gadget. They've been around for 30 years or more. The whole nervousness-thang about them may have been warranted when they were new and first came out- but show me an article that tells of ONE victim dying in a kitchen after micro-wave oven radiation poisoning incident, and I'll eat my hat! (of course- after I heat it up in the microwave!)
 
I think that the only way a person can hurt himself or herself is to try to remove the cabinet from the unit to gain access to the inner workings or machinery, and that could be POTENTIALLY DEADLY!!

There is very SERIOUS high voltage inside there!! You might just as well go to the subway station and step on the third rail!!! Not that you would, but you know what I mean.
 
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I have one but use it only to heat things up or melt things.
 
That's mostly what I use mine for.

But it's also great for steaming veggies as well!
 
I don't even use mine for popcorn. Seems to me it comes out dry and crumbly when cooked that way.

Mine is used for defrosting frozen stuff, reheating leftovers, melting butter. And as an insulated box for keeping stove-cooked things warm (that is, the nuke isn't turned on).

I can't imagine cooking in one of them. All you're doing, actually, is steaming the food. That might work for some veggies (having never done it I'm guessing). But actually cooking something? I don't think so.
 
I have an Aunt who is still convinced that if you somehow rig the microwave to run with the door open, it will vaporize everyone in the room. :)

I use mine for steaming veggies all the time. Reheating leftovers is another use.

I don't find my popcorn as dry and crumbly, maybe it was the brand you tried Brook?

My microwave also has a toaster built into it which comes in handy, but by far my favorite feature is that it has a separate built in timer. In fact, I use the timer more than I use the microwave itself.
 
Jafo232 said:
I have an Aunt who is still convinced that if you somehow rig the microwave to run with the door open, it will vaporize everyone in the room. :)
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That would be very impossible to do.

Built-in safety featuers will not allow anyone to do that.

And besides, if anyone DID do that or has attempted to do that, and the unit is a new one just bought, guess what? The warranty gets tossed out the window!

It is also against the law to do that. It's almost like committing suicide!!:eek:
 
I have a microwave oven. The last one died of old age so we went and bought a combi microwave. This combination cooking is really good and fast.

Microwaves are great if it's one of those days when every one is coming in and going out at different times.

The thing I find with microwave oven that they are great for two but for a family they are nearly useless because of the capacity or lack of it.
 
I also se the microwave for things like heating leftovers, defrosting meat, cooking veggies and soup.

I personally believe that the downfall of the family meal was due to the microwave. Use to be that cooking was a family activity. The microwave came out and then the food manufacturers came out with microwaveable meals then dinners started being made by popping something into the microwave for a few minutes. Eat and run. Eat and run. Thanks to the microwave kids aren't learning to cook a real meal. Point them towards a stove and hand them a pot and you get the look that you are a three headed alien.
 
Your not wrong there, Ironic Chef.
Eat and go, that's the exact term. You are also right saing that kids/young people are not learning to cook but I do not think that is wholly to do with the microwave.

When I was in school way back when Adam was a boy, we had a whole afternoon each week dedicated to domestic science, as it was termed then, in which we learned the basics and much more as the years went on. Girls only. The boys did gardening.

I think it should be that way now but split 50/50 with cooking and gardening alternating between the sexes.

Saying that I've never had a gardening lesson in my life and I still managed an allotment for years. :D
 
We use to have classes like that here in the states when I was a sprout Kez. Through the years though those classes have been done away with. No more learning basic cooking, sewing or even shop classes. Kids here today are lucky enough to still have gym class in school.
 
most of what you are stating might be true but lets take into consideration that mostly everything we use has some direct affect on our bodily functions, the polluted air we breathe for instance. I believe if you use mostly everything that is fresh from the garden a chicken in your back yard etc and not use the canned foods or the frozen products especially meat then you are on the right track to creating a healthy body, but with the fast pace era we are in most of us are so tired after a hard days work a quick dinner most times in the microwave is the easy way out.
 
I guess I'm the only one that bakes a potato in one. Besides re-heating I do fresh corn on the cob (husk, coat with butter or margarine, add seasoning and 5 minutes on a cheap paper plate and it's actually better then boiled). Baked sweet potato, wash pierce with fork, 6 minutes then add a little butter or margarine. My low sodium diet has me on the produce aisle a lot so I'm going to work on fresh green beans in the nuke machine.

BTW: Times will vary according to each unit.
 
I love the 'steamer' bags for nuking my food these days and now that FoodSaver has a vacuum-seal steamer bag that goes in to the freezer I'm trying to get in to the habit of blanching and freezing my veggies in advance, especially the seasonal ones.
 
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