Your post is fascinating and fun to read. My comment about the microwave is it's not suitable for stir frying! Sorry. And to me, I may be totally wrong here, food or water heated by the microwave seems to cool down so quickly, perhaps after the water molecules stop bouncing around. And you can't cook for a crowd using it. For a single person heating up frozen food, it's excellent in time saving and cleaning up. Thank you for this seed of science.
Every year I cook a hundred or more "fried" eggs in the microwave, and I've never had a yolk explode. Never.
Longer microwave cooking times are just enough to play a quick game of online bullet chess.
Browning question: I was taught never to run the microwave empty, as this would cook the magnetron. Is this just bubbe meise, or is there some truth in it? I've never dared to test a microwave to destruction.
Your post is fascinating and fun to read. My comment about the microwave is it's not suitable for stir frying! Sorry. And to me, I may be totally wrong here, food or water heated by the microwave seems to cool down so quickly, perhaps after the water molecules stop bouncing around. And you can't cook for a crowd using it. For a single person heating up frozen food, it's excellent in time saving and cleaning up. Thank you for this seed of science.
Nice piece!
So you had no luck with French poached eggs? A pinch of salt and teaspoon of vinegar, bring the water to the boil, then drop the eggs in?
Every year I cook a hundred or more "fried" eggs in the microwave, and I've never had a yolk explode. Never.
Longer microwave cooking times are just enough to play a quick game of online bullet chess.
Browning question: I was taught never to run the microwave empty, as this would cook the magnetron. Is this just bubbe meise, or is there some truth in it? I've never dared to test a microwave to destruction.