We gotta install microwave ovens

Must admit in this instance I would back cancer research to be all over them like a rash if they were cancer giving.
 
The Fear - 21/10/2016 20:15

Must admit in this instance I would back cancer research to be all over them like a rash if they were cancer giving.
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That was exactly my thinking when I posted the link. As a charity, one would hope their word on the subject would be enough.
 
Well I expected this to be divisive. I knew people wouldn't agree with me. I too have read the evidence for and against. Never used it much anyway.

My answer is it is still staying out of the kitchen.
 
Well I expected this to be divisive. I knew people wouldn't agree with me. I too have read the evidence for and against. Never used it much anyway.

My answer is it is still staying out of the kitchen.
 
Juan Mourep - 21/10/2016 17:17


Russian and Japanese studies have shown how food can lose nearly 60% to 90% of its food value when cooked or heated in a microwave oven. Significant portions of Vitamins B, C, E, and essential minerals have been found to be lost.
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Any form of cooking results in a loss of some Vitamins. Microwaves are no different.
 
A general rule of thumb is that the quicker the cooking time the less the degeneration of nutrients and the less cooked the less the degeneration too. Overcooked is overcooked regardless of trhe cooking time or method and when cooking with microwaves there is a tendancy to overcook as it's more difficult to time resukts properly as cooking often happens more quickly than with "traditional" cooking methods.

One hears all sorts of bullshit about microwaves, my father-in-law (who likes to believe in all types of "alternative" medicine but struggles to accept a lot of main-stream medicine) convinced my brother-in-law and his wife that mocrowaves cook using negative energy and as such the food is bad for consumption so they got rid of their microwave oven. As yet no one has been able to tell me precisely what "negative energy" actually is. In my understanding of semantics and physics negative energy would imply the removal of energy. In my house we call this refridgeration or even freezing, both very usefull but I've not managed to actually cook food in this way yet.

 
Been using microwaves for nearly 40 years , mainly for defrosting bread ,warming up beans and soup ,rice or other biol in the bag veggie stuff oh and nuking bacon !
Have to be honest because they don't brown things I only ever tend to do the above in them . Oh and ours has the browning element in the top but I've never used it in the 12 years we've had this Panasonic one .

I'm pretty sure after 40 years of nuking stuff I'd be dead by now
 
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 22/10/2016 05:59

Juan Mourep - 21/10/2016 17:17


Russian and Japanese studies have shown how food can lose nearly 60% to 90% of its food value when cooked or heated in a microwave oven. Significant portions of Vitamins B, C, E, and essential minerals have been found to be lost.
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Any form of cooking results in a loss of some Vitamins. Microwaves are no different.
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I forget which programme it was, but they tested the best ways to keep vitamins

1) Dry frying
2) Steam
3) Micro
4) Boiling

All lost some vitamins though and it was nowhere near 60-90% for microwave because if that is what they'd come up with, I'd have bought a steamer.
 
kefkat - 22/10/2016 07:07

Well I expected this to be divisive. I knew people wouldn't agree with me. I too have read the evidence for and against. Never used it much anyway.

My answer is it is still staying out of the kitchen.
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I haven't read up on the topic but if you look at the evidence, all of the facts are on one side of this argument.

Still, despite knowing that microwaves have been proven to be safe to use, you still don't want one in your house.

I'm not criticising you, I'm just curious about your choice to believe in something you know isn't true.
 
My 2nd son and I don't really use it. Mr KK will use it too much. There are arguments both ways, I know.

Maybe I am wrong, however I am erring on caution re Mr KK health (which is serious though manageable) Mr KK means too much to me to even take a minute risk even if unfounded. I am not happy about using one so it is not happening in our home.

It is not the end of the world not having or using a microwave so gone it has gone and staying that way.
 
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