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Thread Number: 78961
/ Tag: Small Appliances
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Post# 1029240 4/7/2019 at 22:04 (1,838 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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How many of you already knew this??? I just learned from a fellow chef in the school where I teach that you can put stainless steel in the microwave oven as long as it is true stainless and as long as it doesn't touch any of the walls of the oven!
LIFE CHANGER!!!! Now I can melt and temper small amounts (less than 2 lbs.)of chocolate in the microwave oven which is safer than doing it over hot water. HUGE!!!
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Post# 1029250 , Reply# 1 4/8/2019 at 07:03 (1,838 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Cooking In Metal In A MWO Hi Ken, Thanks for this information it is helpful to talk about this because as with many things there is little understanding about how MWOs work.
YES you can use metal in MWOs, ANY type of metal in fact, it does not matter Copper, Steel, Aluminum, real SS Etc. [ I do it all the time when I want to soften butter, melt chocolate etc ]
The basic rule is to have the food you are trying to heat exposed to the MW energy, so you need a sufficient quantity of food and a pan or bowl with lower sides is better with a large opening and the metal container should not touch the sides or door.
Now all that said, food will cook faster and more evenly in containers that are invisible to MWE, so Corning-ware and other glass etc are still better overall.
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Post# 1029253 , Reply# 3 4/8/2019 at 07:42 (1,838 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1029261 , Reply# 4 4/8/2019 at 09:58 (1,837 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Post# 1029264 , Reply# 5 4/8/2019 at 10:09 (1,837 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1029300 , Reply# 8 4/8/2019 at 18:03 (1,837 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Not the same thing as a vessel but my GE OTR (non-convection) has two chrome racks to handle two or three levels of dishes. I usually don't have either in-place. They do get a smidgen warm. Using pieces of aluminum foil to shield some types of dishes or food from overheating/overcooking, such as the corners of a rectangular or square dish, has long been a thing. I heated aluminum-tray TV dinners (with the foil cover removed of course) in our 1979 WP many times to no disaster. Plastic trays apparently debuted circa 1986.
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Post# 1029335 , Reply# 9 4/9/2019 at 01:50 (1,837 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Here's the inside of mine. The antenna is under the circle on the bottom. Bowls are placed on the bottom, there is no rack.
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Post# 1029341 , Reply# 10 4/9/2019 at 06:51 (1,837 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Post# 1029345 , Reply# 11 4/9/2019 at 08:13 (1,837 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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This discussion led me to an experiment this morn. I left a stainless flatware spoon in the coffee mug for two microwaved scrambled eggs. No sparking, no (apparent) damage, and the eggs cooked ~20 seconds quicker than usual. Coincidence, or did the spoon act as an antenna to pull more energy directly into the mug? | ||
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