Microwaves Ruin Everything
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I haven't used a microwave in years, and I don't miss the radiation at all.

Nor do I miss the lack of flavor, the lack of nutrients and all the deadly chemicals microwaving releases from plastics into the food.

And on and on...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx
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#3
So don't microwave in plastic then. Smiling I confess I love my microwave.
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#4
I've been investing in glassware with covers.
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#5
they do artichokes wonderfully.
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You can reheat stuff in a Pyrex dish if you are worried about plastic. It's great for reheating but we don't do much micro-wave cooking. Occasionally I would cook bacon in there a paper towel on the top but we don't each much bacon anymore. It is really good for softening day-old bread.
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(03-26-2012, 05:30 PM)Green Wrote: I haven't used a microwave in years, and I don't miss the radiation at all.

Nor do I miss the lack of flavor, the lack of nutrients and all the deadly chemicals microwaving releases from plastics into the food.

And on and on...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx

You found an article that backs up your claims. I can probably find a great many, more that dispute your claims.

It seems to be common knowledge that cooking actually decreases a foods nutritional value. And from what I read ovens do that more so than MW's.

Since microwave ovens often use less heat than conventional methods and involve shorter cooking times, they generally have the least destructive effects

In studies at Cornell University, scientists looked at the effects of cooking on water-soluble vitamins in vegetables and found that spinach retained nearly all its folate when cooked in a microwave, but lost about 77 percent when cooked on a stove. They also found that bacon cooked by microwave has significantly lower levels of cancer-causing nitrosamines than conventionally cooked bacon.


The US food and drug administration says the same thing that Oven cooking actually removes more nutrients from food than microwave cooking.
As far as "radiation" they also explain that "Microwaves are non-ionizing radiation, so they do not have the same risks as x-rays or other types of ionizing radiation"



http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingPro...ertainment










http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/health/17real.html



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#8
Somebody did their homework! Smiling
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#9
Hmmm...interesting.
Of course, oven roasted is my favorite way to eat vegetables. (sigh)
I DO prepare some vegetables in the microwave...broccoli comes to mind.
And corn on the cob..oh my...if you pull back the husks, remove the silk, replace the husks and soak the corn in water? 1 minute in the microwave and voila! Best corn on the cob ever.
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#10
Conventional oven generate a lot of infrared 'radiation'. Far more infrared radiation leaks from a regular oven then from a microwave.
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