What can be cooked in the microwave
Food / / December 19, 2019
It can fry. It may be dried. It is possible to prepare a perfect sea bass with ginger and shallots for a couple. Give her a total of 4 minutes, and it is sure to surprise you. What else is capable of your home microwave oven?
The fact that microwave is harmful to health and destroys the food have long been waging a fierce debate. While the damage has not been scientifically proven, some sides of this miracle of technology, and someone uses, but mainly for popcorn cooking or heating food, not a full cooking process. But in fact, microwave oven capable of much more, just do not give it fully open.
It can fry. It may be dried. It is possible to prepare a perfect sea bass with ginger and shallots for a couple. Give her a total of 4 minutes, and it is sure to surprise you. What else is capable of your home microwave oven?
Author of the book «Modernist Cuisine» (Modernist Cuisine), Nathan Mihrvold believes that the microwave greatly underestimated. And he showed it to «At Home» section. In fact, it is quite possible to prepare the proper and healthy dishes - dishes a couple do not require adding fat, and if you need to cook something fried, this would require quite a bit oil.
In order to master the technique of preparation of dishes in the microwave, you first have to examine in detail all of the available functions and temperature settings.
The first general ruleThat you should remember - little power (500 W) transforms your stove into a temporary desiccant (drying). When you dry something, the water should go from the center to the edges. If you heat food carefully enough, the water will evaporate from it, instead of getting a hot dish and bring to readiness. That is, you can use the microwave on low power in order to make your own dried fruit.
On power from 500 W to 800 W, can be fried in an oven or cook steamed food. If you just want something quick warm up, use the highest power, how would you do it for tea or coffee.
How to adjust the power?
First, you must determine the power range of its microwave. Most furnaces Maximum power ranges from 800 watts to 1350 watts. Carefully read icons on your microwave and reach for a calculator.
If you want to cook something for a couple, you need 800 watts and a maximum power of your furnace is 1000 watts. Then you need to set the power to 80% or 8 (level 9 - 90%, and so on). On some ovens the power level indicated as "low", "average" or "above average" - for them it is necessary to calculate their ratio.
For the microwave power of 1100 W silent complicated mathematics - 800 W in this case will correspond to about 73%, or 7 level. By the way, the level of adjustment does not change the power. Just the oven will turn on and off pulses at a fixed power level to the desired result.
There are many books with recipes for microwave ovens, and maybe it's time to drop the fears and give her the opportunity to discover their talents? In the end, sometimes it happens that the microwave - it's our only assistant in the kitchen (for example, when traveling). Do not eat the same constantly in restaurants (expensive), fast food (bad) or popcorn (very bad)?