Your Microwave’s Most Underrated Button | Techniquely with Lan Lam

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Microwave cooking is unlike any other cooking method in the kitchen. Cook’s Illustrated’s Lan Lam shows you how to get the most of your microwave with six easy recipes.

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Creamy White Bean Soup with Crispy Capers:

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  14. Love all content from Lan Lam. One outstanding question is about reheating soup in container with lid on? Isn't there a risk of pressure building up inside? Also, does the rubber seal degrade over time, going from frozen to hot?

  15. Another underrated reality in commentaries to videos is 'BREATHING/COMPREHENSION PAUSES! Pauses allow the brain to process information and meaning and instead of only partly cooked food, because of incorrect buttons, it is partly digested info – because the delivery of it is compacted or compressed and does a disservice to the interested listener?

  16. An interesting note on that power button and duty cycle modulation. A magnetron is a high voltage DC device, essentially a type of vacuum tube. The traditional coil driven varieties run off big transformers that step-up mains voltage then rectify out and filter/smooth the rectified DC. This process limits the practical speed at which the tube can be switched on and start emitting. Switching it on/off a little too fast – at best – prevents the tube from reaching a steady 'on' state and – at worst – burns out the power supply. About 30 years ago, Panasonic introduced the inverter-driven microwave that doesn't use a transformer. In fact, it uses a type of power supply that's meant to be rapidly switched (on the order of about 1000 times per second). These can run at what seems to be a lower power state. They're still running it on for some time and off for some time but instead of, for instance, on for 10 seconds off for 20 seconds, it might be on for 10 milliseconds, off for 20 milliseconds. It really reduces burnt edges and helps prevent some parts boiling while other parts still frozen kinds of results.

  29. Unless they have improved the mesh on the doors, the microwaves can pass through a bit. When I was pregnant, everytime I would go near a microwave oven that was doing its thing, my baby would start doing gymnastics and stop when I backed away from the oven about 5 feet. Maybe it was the magnetron itself being on. There is something that interferes with pacemakers and makes foetuses panicky!

  43. My favorite microwave technique is the perfect poached egg. 100ml of water in a small bowl, break the egg into it, use a toothpick to pierce the yolk in four places. Add another 100ml of water. Place covered in microwave on high for 1 minute 10 seconds (time varies by size of eggs and how soft you like the yolk) then let sit after removing for about 30 seconds. Lift out with a spoon, perfectly cooked, serve and enjoy on hot toast.

  46. Had 4 microwaves here in the last 10 years. I don't use them much just to warm up liquids. They all broke with weeks of each other recently. Brand new, hardly used but broken.
    One: the base does not spin round. One of them the door handle broke.
    Bad luck l suppose.

  47. Honestly besides an electric kettle, microwaves are some of the most important kitchen items to own. I freeze veggies and rice, being able to heat up those components for dishes is crucial in my cooking. My microwave broke and it put a major dent into my drive to cook.

  48. Few years ago I heard a report in microwaves that claimed that they destroy some if they health benefits of food.
    An experiment was done using tap water in a plant and microwave water on a plant. The plant using microwave water died vs the plant watered from the tap. That did it for me.

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