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This may sound dumb, but I never trusted microwaves. It just feels so unnatural. I even have basic understanding on how they work (water molecules in food start
by lucgagan 3y ago
This may sound dumb, but I never trusted microwaves. It just feels so unnatural. I even have basic understanding on how they work (water molecules in food start to vibrate producing heat), but it just doesn't taste good and feels off. No way it is healthy.
- noSyncCloud 3y agoCan you give us a quick rundown of what heat is, in your understanding?
- adderthorn 3y agoI think the takeaway here is cooking in plastic in the microwave, not the microwave technology itself.
- shortcake27 3y ago> No way it is healthy. That’s a bold claim. How did you come to this conclusion? Do you have any scientific literature you can point us to that proves microwaved food is unhealthy?
- permo-w 3y agoit's not healthy, but only in the sense that it lowers the barrier to eating more food. other than that, heat is heat
- nayuki 3y agoIf you go by that standard, barbecuing over a fire is pretty unnatural too. Burning chemicals, depositing random hydrocarbon soot onto your food, having poor control over the cooking temperature... And we know it's unhealthy.
- stouset 3y agoThe culprit here is plastic. There has never been a reasonable suspicion that microwaves themselves are in any way detrimental.
- revertmean 3y ago> water molecules in food start to vibrate producing heat That isn't really how microwaves work. Or, perhaps, that's how all radiation heat things work. It's any molecule that will absorb radiation of that frequency. So your grill works the same way, just at a different frequency. At microwave level, it's water, fats, all sorts of things. The difference is really the stuff that doesn't absorb at those frequencies.