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I did have a friend that told me eating food that was burned caused cancer. I have a feeling if that really happened there would be a lot more dead people
THis is a funny concept when you think about it. There will always be the exact same number of dead people. The number of dead people will equal the number of people. We all end up dead. According nto my dootor, we will all get cancer unless something else kills us first.
THere is a funny song by Joe Hackson that I always think of when I see this topic discussed: "Everything gives youcanre, there's no cure, there's no answer. .. .
I get so tired of all the things that i am supposed to not eat or do in order to avoid the possiblity of getting cancer. I can deprive myself of all kinds of conveniences and pleasures, but I will still end up dead. I may deprive myself of a few years in a wheelchair straing at the cileing and drooling by not adopting all of the clean and safe living trends, but i can live with that.
If you want to save time, put your bacon in foil and put it on top of your catalytic converter. Put your eggs in something heat resistant and put it on toip of your intake manifold (or maybe exhaust, you have to experiement) Then drive to work. When you arrive, your beakfast will be ready to eat. (Maybe)
I get so tired of all the things that i am supposed to not eat or do in order to avoid the possiblity of getting cancer. I can deprive myself of all kinds of conveniences and pleasures, but I will still end up dead. I may deprive myself of a few years in a wheelchair straing at the cileing and drooling by not adopting all of the clean and safe living trends, but i can live with that.
Exactly. I could not imagine roasting a marshmallow and not charing it beyond recognition. If that shaves a few minutes off my life per mallow so be it.
My grandfather lived to be 94, at steak 4 days a week, never bought antibacterial soap, road in cars without seatbelts for his whole childhood, ate white italian bread, at pasta and various other things and still lived to 94.
Never thought of cooking bacon in the oven - brilliant! What temperature do you use for that?
Well then, can you fry an egg in the oven successfully too?
I buy thick bacon, Beeler's brand (not sure if you can find that brand everywhere or just here), and I cook it at 350 degrees fr 20 minutes. I have cooked it at higher temps for less time, but because I'm also making tea, cooking eggs, and packing my family of four's lunches for the day at the same time, I worry that I'll burn the bacon, so I like my 350 degrees for twenty minutes routine. It's what works for me and it gets the bacon the way we like it.
I haven't tried frying eggs in the oven, but you can cook them. Instead of hard-boiled eggs, you can hard-cook them in the oven. You can also cook them just until the white is cooked but the yolk is still a bit runny. Make toast or steam some asparagus and use the strips of toast and asparagus spears to dip into the egg yolk. Yum!!
They boiled the egg on that blog, though. I think they taste better when you cook them in the oven.
I have done french toast in the oven. That worked out really well and saved a lot of time as well. It wasn't as good as when you make it in the skillet, though, but it was still good.
I think all of that is just fine. I have been eating microwaved food since forever and I have yet to grow a third eye or anything. I think in the grand scheme of things it's ok.
I did have a friend that told me eating food that was burned caused cancer. I have a feeling if that really happened there would be a lot more dead people
I heard that, too. Something about the burned bits of toast or something. Seems like there's only a short list of things these days that won't give us cancer. Our dollars bills are covered in BPA, for example.
I have seen experiments done at my kids schools that supposedly prove that plants watered with water that has been microwaved and then cooled will not grow as well as plants watered with water that has never been microwaved. One experiment I saw also tried boiling water in a pot on the stove and letting it cool - those plants grew fine. But the microwaved water did something to the plants that resulted in stunted growth. Of course, other experiments have been done (when I saw these experiments at my kids schools, I went online to read more about them) which supposedly disprove those experiments. So who knows?
That's what I mean about confusing, that's just one example. There are lots of contradictory theories out there. Basically whatever you want to believe, there's a "science" or study out there to support your opinion.
If we did get a microwave, I'd prolly use it to melt butter and that's about it. But I currently melt butter on the stove and it's no big whoop, so that would be an expensive butter melter. I'd rather keep my counter space!
I guess we must read vastly different sets of information, because I don't know that I have ever read an article talking about them being unsafe. They do not make food radioactive. Do you use cordless phones, have a wireless router, live where the police use radar guns? It's all the same frequencies. The radio waves are used to excite the water in the food which in turn produces heat which cooks the food.
What you're saying is true. I also know cellphones are harmful (hubby works for the company), but it's difficult these days to get by without one (we don't even keep a landline phone anymore). Even if we didn't have a cellphones, we'd still have a hard time avoiding ELF magnetic fields (powerlines), and other numerous devices that produce radiation. Everybody gets Xrays at some point in their life.
Really, anytime you heat food you're killing the beneficial qualities within it. So I guess it doesn't matter whether you heat it in a microwave or on the stove or over the campfire...
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