The second is the concern mentioned above: 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. 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, they've ignored an important question: does food cooked in a microwave taste any different from the same food cooked in an oven? They leave the answer to your palate.
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Ya might wanna check on that 'myth' that microwaves are dangerous with the guy who walked in front of the operating DEW line radar. You'll need an ouija board.... Microwaves ARE dangerous because they induce heating, and that includes leakage from improperly shielded kitchen microwaves. A properly shielded, properly operating and interlocked kitchen microwave is generally safe BECAUSE there are standards for leakage (yes, they leak)...but damage the seals, and yer kitchen RADARrange can and will hurt you. You cannot detect microwaves; if your kitchen microwave develops a leak, you will not know it without instruments. Yes, it's rare. It does happen. Don't stand right in front of your microwave.
ReplyDeleteLearn a little physics, please. The DEW radar has a "main bang" measured in kilowatts at the antenna horn, the leakage from the microwave is measured in milliwatts in normal operation. (Keep your seals clean and undamaged, please.)
DeleteEnough of the fear porn, already - although it's a good idea not to hang around the front of the microwave. Just like it's not a good idea to stand in the road during traffic...
Lots of Navy radar techs can tell you that getting exposed to microwaves can be fatal if strong enough and for long enough. If you mean from microwave ovens, yeah, maybe if they are working right.
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