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Maybe from cooking meat?
by tonmoy 9y ago
Maybe from cooking meat?
- gambiting 9y agoPeople actually cook things in microwaves? As in - they go from raw product to a cooked product? I've only ever used and only ever saw microwaves bring used for warming up meals, never for actual cooking.
- grecy 9y agoCheckout the buttons on the front - many have settings for cooking chicken, beef, etc. Absolutely you can "cook" things in microwaves, people do it all the time.
- gambiting 9y agoWhat buttons? Pretty much every microwave I've ever seen looks like this[0] - timer + power setting. Even our kitchen at work which has some really fancy microwaves only offers time + power, nothing else. The ones full of buttons on the front are from like....American movies, not something I ever see in real life :P [0] https://asda.scene7.com/is/image/Asda/5054781247296?hei=532&wid=910&qlt=85&fmt=pjpg&resmode=sharp&op_usm=1.1,0.5,0,0&defaultimage=default_details_George_rd https://asda.scene7.com/is/image/Asda/5054781247296?hei=532&...
- grecy 9y agoMost I have seen look like this https://www.google.com/search?q=microwave+buttons&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=microwave+buttons&source=lnm...
- TeMPOraL 9y agoFor some reason the concept doesn't seem popular in many parts of the world, to the point that people don't even realize you could use a microwave to cook things[0]. But it can be, and people do. I even stumbled upon a cookbook once, that was entirely dedicated to cooking in microwave. Very interesting and insightful read. Microwave is a different beast than ovens and stoves, but if you appreciate its nature, it turns out you can do quite a lot of cooking with it. -- [0] - This is a funny thought pattern failure that's common for people, and I don't know the better name than "acute lack of problem-solving abilities" for it. I mean, people should realize that cooking happens through heat, and microwave adds heat into a product, hence it can technically be used to cook...
- meldroc 9y agoWell, it's certainly doable. Though for meat in particular, people prefer to use stoves, grills, and ovens, because while a microwave can heat up meat to the point where it cooks, you really need a grill or a hot pan, for example, to induce the Maillard reaction on the surface of a steak (give it a good sear), while leaving the inside medium-rare. Try doing that in the microwave...