| deskpro2k3 said: we don't know the long term effects of eating microwaved foods. I mean microwave oven only been around for like 40 years, and why do you think doctors tell mothers not to microwave milk to feed babies. Even Russia outlawed the use of microwave ovens too. |
Err what?
The only thing a microwave does is to heat up the water molecules, there is no chance of residual radiation or anything like that. Any problems are not with the method of cooking but the crap they put into microwave meals, but the same goes for a lot of ready meals whether they are cooked in a microwave or in an oven (it's just that microwaves cook faster so most ready meals can be done in a microwave)
I guess there could be an additional problem in that a lot of microwaves are not very well optimised and tend to spot heat, which means while parts of a product get cooked other parts don't (that's why they spin the food but sometimes it still occurs) but first of all that's easily solved by making sure what you are about to eat is cooked through like you do with other cooking methods, and second of all I think would at worst cause minor food poisoning or stomach ache, and wouldn't lead to long term health problems.
Having said that I personally just use the microwave to defrost bread, or occasionally heat up leftovers... mainly because most of the ready meal stuff looks like crap and usually tastes of either sugar or salt with added cardboard/plastic.
