Microwaving food....
 

I'd be careful with that article:

this quote from your quote has a huge error in it:
We don't "cook" with the microwave... we only warm things up... a minute or two.

This article goes into detail about this topic:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/health...rowaving-food/

When I cook fresh veggies, I typically steam them on the stovetop.

I have found that many sites today on the net need corroboration by further searching.

Any yes...I only use GLASS on the stove top now, and microwave. (except for my large steamer which is stainless steel). New Visions glassware is basically what I have (--purchased on Ebay because it is no longer made) But there are other brands now available. Be careful with glass in the oven and on the stovetop...do not suddenly SHOCK it with cold water. It is best to leave it on the stove to cool with the cooling of the stove itself. Even leaving glass on the counter may shock it these days. (esp stone counters).

When making soups and long cooking items, I turn off the heat after a few minutes of cooking and cover, and let it "stand cook". You can cook pasta or anything this way... It only lengthens the cook time by a few minutes. Glass holds the heat a long time and we use this technique upNorth with propane. This slow cooks (but not a long all day cook) and conserves gas, and also is easier on the nutrients and glass cookware. When I store my glass cookware, I keep some bubble wrap between each one.

These little small serving size glass containers have been very useful for us... to cook up small portions of frozen veggies, etc.
They are called "grab-it" and come with glass lids. You can find it sometimes on Ebay. We often just put a paper plate over them when microwaving.
example:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Visions-Cran...item48671607dd

Whenever I find one of these or the white Corning ones at garage sales, I snap them up!

Many people today are even storing food in the frig in glass. We typically don't cook large meals anymore...but I have a few casserole glass dishes I use for soups or Turkey etc.

I use a stainless fry pain for brief stirfry or scrambling eggs.

Playing on our "nuking" euphemism for microwaving in order to claim nuclear-level changes to molecules is not scientific proof of anything, if not the fact that the author lacks basic scientific instruction.

Some molecules do change when they are heated, that's what "cooking" is -- any kind of cooking! Other molecules remain unchanged. Some are destroyed by heating -- any kind of heating!

I can accept conjecture that some nutrients can be affected by the rapid heat changes induced by a microwave, but this has not, to this day, been established as scientific fact. I have not seen even a single scientific study showing reliably that microwave cooking destroys more nutrients than ordinary cooking. Furthermore, comparative studies must take into account cooking duration which is shorter in microwave cooking. This may level the playing field on nutritional erosion that either type of cooking might produce. It could also mean that microwave cooking causes less nutrient damage than traditional cooking, (as long as we are talking conjectures).

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It should go without saying that a microwave, like any other heating device, must be used responsibly and its specific safety protocol observed -- or you will get burned, or melt stuff, lol!

A little common sense never hurt, either. For instance, do not microwave your poodle to dry him off. (A woman did this... and won the lawsuit that microwave manufacturers should have listed a warning not to nuke live animals. :rolleyes::D)

waves

Bizi,

Are you o.k. today?

What is going on?

Is any of that necessary?

Mari

Mari

When I saw the first post, in Steve's thread, my first thought was that someone had hacked Bizi's account and posted as her.

Based on this thread, I don't really think that's the case, but I'm not really sure what the deal is. Something feels off to me also.

waves

I don't worry about the microwave so much although I don't actually cook food in them but occasionally use them for heating food up. I'd be more concerned about NOT heating the food up enough when reheating.

I lived microwave free for about 10 years not so long ago. I also lived TV free for almost 5 of those years. :o

I then bought my daughter quite an expensive microwave when she was living away at University. She's come back to the nest so now I have the microwave here again taking up space. :)

I have more concern about the plastic water bottles here especially in the heat. I worry about the growing bacteria and the chemicals already leaching out of the plastic - even the BPA free ones.

They also end up in landfill and litter the ocean and the beaches. I know that people are pouring chemicals down our storm water drains here too. Paint, bleach, oils whatever. All shooting out into our beautiful oceans to kill off the sea grass and the living creatures. Gross. I worry about that more than I worry about 1 minute or 2 minutes in a microwave.

I'm not sure what the answer is with regard to my water issues. The tap water is treated as well. I boil it for most things, but my daughter won't drink tap water at all. I guess the answer is to buy a massive filtration system.

ooops, sorry about my tangent. :o
I was thinking about plastics.

While I was on Ebay today, looking for examples of glass cookware for this thread, I stumbled onto 4 Grab-it glass bowls, for a very low price and bought them, before someone else grabbed them... ;)

I think I'll take 2 of them upNorth, even though we don't have a microwave up there (no electricity).

So this thread was a sort of boon for me today. ;)

Sorry for causing any upset.
Somewhere I read that water was changed by microwaving it....
wonder where I saw that?
bizi

Don't feel bad, I don't understand any of this tech stuff. Heck, I don't even have an electric can opener. :Hum:

I deleted most of the post...sorry for the upset again.
I am a hypocrite, bad mouth the microwave whilst still using one myself....
geesh!
bizi