15 Who-knew? uses for your microwave

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sponges? yes, definately. Roasted garlic....no. Just not the same. It burned when at 6 minutes.....and cover means with glass lid, not wrap. Some things just need the oven ;)

Just make sure that there is NO METAL in whatever you're putting in the microwave. Even the smallest amount can cause problems.

I have to completely agree with Icare. I'm still damn happy we don't even own a microwave

This information is very essential for them who use microwave without any applicable knowledge.I like this article and the microwave user should follow it

Refresh your flat tennis balls. Put in the microwave for 20 seconds or less. Viola! Tennis ball can bounce once more, but now you microwave smells of rubber.

The only reason that a microwave might reduce the nutrient in food is by cooking the food too much, which is easy to do with a microwave, because most people don't know how to use one properly. You can reduce the nutrient in any food by any cooking means by raising the temperature too high which will destroy the nutritional value, not just by microwaving.
Microwaving food works perfectly well, if you know what you are doing, and know how to use your microwave properly. If you don't, just be scared and believe every piece of baloney that you read on the internet and your life will be just peachy keen, once you move back into your cave!

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I don't believe you can prove yeast in a microwave, microwaves kill the yeast plants. Deader than dead -- and if the yeast is dead the bread will not rise. They also toughen the gluten in breads and rolls, rendering them more or less inedible. Otherwise I'm all for it, I suggest you can melt chocolate in it, make custard, melt butter, and warm a variety of liquids for cooking purposes.

There is very inconsistent wisdom in this article.

1. Sponges are cheap. Just use a new one; that's the healthiest thing.

2. This would be o.k if it worked...but do you really want to risk a twenty dollar salmon fillet on this science experiment?

3. This is bad idea for two reasons;

a. Some cheap cutting boards will melt in the microwave.

b. You "sterilize" a plastic cutting board with soap and water, then let it dry. No microwave needed.

4. Getting plastic too hot is not a good idea. It will melt or start releasing those nasty chemicals that you read about being in baby's water bottles. Keep your brown sugar in a glass container, not plastic.

5. This is not as bad, since it references the glass "jar."

6. If you're bothering to make bread in the first place, wouldn't you rather do it right?

7. This might be o.k, except that if you get the gel pack too hot it will break and spill gel everywhere.

Follow the directions on the side of the pack to heat it.

8. Not a terrible suggestion, only because the wax can be such a mess and you'll never get it off your cookware.

9. Try it. Then try it in the oven. It'll be pretty clear which is better.

10. Get a juicer.

11. Toasting anything in the microwave is a dumb idea. Try it with bread and see what happens.

12. This is actually more work than doing it correctly. Heat a large non-stick skillet at medium heat for a minute, then rub the tortilla in the bottom, both sides until it is supple. That's it.

13. See #11.

14. Who eats applesauce? Really though; this is probably the most inoccuous suggestion on here.

15. You will break the plate. I promise.

microwaves kill!!

Recycling articles does not save the environment. Please write and submit something new every once and a while.

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I use it to jump start my weed drying process..

Oh my gosh, reading through these some of these comments is now making me feel like I am about to have a brain explosion! What is wrong with people? You know, we have lived without all this "new information" about germs and nutrients macrobiotic diets and all this stuff for hundreds of years. You want to clean your kitchen, grab an old rag and some comet or ajax or bleach and scrub away then throw the rag in the laundry and when it gets too full of holes, throw it away. There are alway old towels to tear up for rags. You don't have to have germy sponges around the kitchen. Do you think our grandparents had money for stocking up on the right kind of sponges and 6 kinds of disinfectants and all that? Heck no - the used old rags and a bottle of bleach or amonia. Progress is not always a good thing.

microwaves don't kill nutrients any more than any other heating/cooking method, and possibly less so than other methods under certain conditions.

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

Get More Juice From Citrus Fruits- Really ? This will destroy vitamins in a few seconds. How is that helpful?

mine gets used for reheating coffee and.....um......uh........oh yeah !
melting peeps to amuse the kids !
they're just another wunderbar invention that's really not too useful or good to use.

All you people with the tinfoil hats: could you please cite your scientific data that microwaving destroys the nutrients in food? thank you.

I love cooking water in less than 5mins. microwave is great