Microwaves

“	Originally Posted By: wingnut i dont use a microwave for the reasons John100 gave......they are radio active.........also if the food is not allowed to relax after cooking you risk cooking your inards............................................ ......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........	”

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You'll burn your tongue if you try eating any food that's too hot. Like pizza from the oven. Food from a microwave oven is not anymore radioactive than any other object on Earth (we all are radioactive to a tiny degree BTW but that's a different subject). Radio waves passing through the food in the microwave do just that -- pass THROUGH. On their journey they excite the water molecules in the food ... but just like Elvis on a swing through Hawaii, they don't stay long and all they leave behind are excited, giddy molecules.

Now, the microwave itself? Yeah, don't hover too close to it during operation. It IS shielded and the door is sealed, but if those safeguards aren't 100% then there's a chance that stray radio waves can reach about 2 feet outward. But that's DURING operation. Additionally, the radiation generated by a microwave is significantly smaller than that generated by an X-ray. You have to get a LOT of consecutive, unshielded X-rays within a short period of time to see negative effects, including cancer. A microwave is shielded and unless you are a cooking freak who uses a microwave all day long every day of the week, and hugs it while it's running, you're not going to be exposed to radioactivity at all.

Now with cell phones ... the jury is definitely out on that one. Research done on mobile phone radio waves has been suppressed, downgraded, criticized and finally not funded. Microwave ovens' shielding, and their cooking efficiency, were improved in 1971 due to the results of studies released back then; that's why I can say you're really not in any danger from microwaved food other than a burnt tongue from it being too hot. But I also feel that cell phones deserve the same scrutiny and a revamping if the shielding is not adequate.

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I think you'll find that the phenomena of burning is the same as the phenomena of cooking.......the special danger of microwave cooking is the amount of energy that the microwaves depart to the hydrogen atoms, which is considerably greater than in conventional cooking apperatus............especially when cooking poi .............

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Especially flaming poi ...

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Is anyone aware of the Russian ban on microwave ovens in 1976? Russian researchers determined that food that had been microwaved could not be identified or even considered as the same material that was pre-microwaved so to speak. Another words, some of the materials (foods) that were microwaved were not of this world (unidentifiable). Something to look in too.

not really my area of expertise, but i know food does not cook from the inside out in a microwave. myth. also, does a geiger counter even pick up microwaves? i thought that they only worked on ionizing radiation?

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I have read some very negative things about microwaves.

Apparently, heating throug the vibration of the water is very destabilizing, ripping apart some atomic bonds, breaking down vitamin compounds and recombining things that weren't meant to be combined, forming toxins and free radical poisons.

This is the source of microwave distrust, not all that silly 'microwaves alter the food' because they don't, they do pass through It's a side effect of the water being disturbed from it's rest in such a strange manner.

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Food being microwaved does not stop cooking until about 2 minutes after being removed.

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There was a study done on microwaves by a scientist named Hans Hertel. This study compared the blood samples of volunteers after eating either microwaved raw milk, pasturized milk, and organic vegetables or these same foods stove/oven cooked. The study found out that the volunteers who ate the microwave foods had changes in their blood. Some of the changes included a decrease in all cholesterol values, good and bad cholesterol...and there was a decrease of white blood cells. ...pretty scarey. I read this from an article I found online...because of this article, I no longer use microwaves. Also did you know that the microwave oven was invented by the Nazzis? And yes, the Russians banned the use of microwaves after their research on the affects it has on humans.

....something to think about

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=99

I was looking specifically for plastic container info. I remembered some time ago there was publicity about using any plastic at all in microwaves. found this site via Google.

I've never had a warm fuzzy feeling about microwave cooking, and tend naturally to move away, like some of my animal brethren. I do the stove thing and that's it.

passingthru

yeah there's something that happens when you microwave food on plastic containers. somehow the molecular bonds are weakened then fuse together with the food. eating plastic (even at a molecular level) is not good for you, especially if you eat microwave food often....most "tv" dinners are on plastics.

thanks for the link. i'll check it out.

quote=passingthru]http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=99

I was looking specifically for plastic container info. I remembered some time ago there was publicity about using any plastic at all in microwaves. found this site via Google.

I've never had a warm fuzzy feeling about microwave cooking, and tend naturally to move away, like some of my animal brethren. I do the stove thing and that's it.

passingthru[/quote]

Lately I've been eating cold food rather than reheating it in the microwave, and have convinced my mom to let me boil stuff on the stove instead of microwaving it for dinner.

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it takes a little bit longer to reheat or cook in the oven....your health is worth it. now a days everyone is running and in a hurry....even waiting one min. to reheat food in the micro is too long... we all have to take a breath and slow down.... it's a change for me to take the time to use the stove to reheat, but i know it's better for my body.

you know what works well? a toaster oven. you might want to try that too.

just something to think about....

Agree. toaster oven works well.

Another thing I've found, though it takes just a little effort, is to steam frozen or fresh veggies rather than boiling them. They taste better.

Oven/toaster oven reheating wins out over boiling for me. I used to boil. It's a matter of taste/texture. I also think that maybe I'm not boiling away nutrients.

passingthru

yeah, steaming is good too.

I just used my toaster oven to reheat my pork chops

Tasted pretty good.

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