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There's a popular conception that microwave ovens zap all the good stuff in our foods, like essential vitamins and minerals. But is it true?
The answer is no. And in fact, microwave ovens often retain more nutrients in our food than conventional cooking.
All cooking degrades the amount of nutrients in our food, but there are several factors to consider, including the amount of heat being applied, the amount of water used, cooking time, and the nutrients involved (e.g. folic acid and vitamins B and C, which are found in vegetables, are the most heat-sensitive water soluble vitamins).
Microwaves, because they tend to involve shorter cooking times and less heat, tend to exert less destructive effects. Do microwave ovens kill nutrients in food?
We all need to take some of this stuff with a grain of salt. There is a place for micro waves, get stuck without one after you are accustom to having one: it is a real downer, but most of would not want to use one for all or even most of our cooking. I do not think microwaving you mac and cheese to heat it up destroys all the nutrients. We can all find articles that make claims we would like to see made. I get we can find one today which disputes the one you are using.
I use my microwave for re-heating food, defrosting meat, heating water for tea and melting butter. I use it pretty much everyday for one of those things.
I love my microwave. I use it to steam veggies, to partially bake potatoes before finishing them on the grill or in the oven, for reheating leftovers, defrosting frozen meats, etc. I also turn on the nightlight underneath (mine is mounted over the stove) and then the inside of the microwave itself warms up to the perfect temperature for proofing yeast dough. I really don't make microwave popcorn in mine because ours will reset itself afterward for some reason and then I have to reset the clock. I like making popcorn in my wok anyway.
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Originally Posted by 70Ford
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What I'm getting at, is that something was "wondrous and unique" not so long ago, has become a ubiquitous bit of kitchen ware. Who doesn't have ... or use... a microwave oven? Microwave oven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember when my mom got her first one. You could cook a turkey in it. It had a thermometer. There were hard cover cookbooks, with some incredibly terrible recipes in them. I recall one, was "Microwave a pat of butter 'til liquid in a microwave safe cup. Place a cracked egg on top of the butter. Microwave on high for 2 minutes... I can't remember if it was 2 or 3. What that does is make a rocket powered egg explosion machine in your microwave. They had no clue. I was peeling that egg off the top of the oven and scrubbing forever.
Yesterday. I normally am not a microwave user - it all depends on what I am having. I'll never cook frozen food in the microwave for example, or food in general. I'll rather put it in the oven, wait a little longer and have it taste better.
I more use the microwave if I need to have a snack like popcorn, or queso. yesterday for a snack I had tortilla chips and queso, and I used the microwave for the queso.
Mine caught fire a couple weeks ago, so it's been that long.
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Originally Posted by Ace_TX
I would say that majority of the time people use the microwave it to heat up things with not much nutritional value to begin with
I would say that's a gross generalization made without reading any of the responses in this thread.
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