I bought a microwave and try to cook chicken breast. Around 3-4 min the meat is fully cooked, is this a good option for the long run? The taste is superb, I just used bbq source..

microwaved food is not good for health.

especially the radiation.

simple google "microwaved food dangers"


don't eat microwave food too often.

https://www.google.com.my/search?redir_esc=...577347&devloc=0

sometimes the sauce that u use has way loads of sugar etc in it.. do look up the content of the sauce u use. cheers

once you stop the microwave, radiation gone, none is left on your food

i always use microwave to cook my chicken... lol

fast n easy

Lol one of the many myths . "Microwave is baaaaaad". all spread by paranoid people

I was told by my mother. She saw this news regarding bad of microwave on newspaper lol

I thought information from newspaper was quite reliable?

This post has been edited by CyrusWong: Feb 2 2015, 08:36 PM

1. Your mother saw, and told you... not you saw. Information gap.

2. Exactly which microwave model was it she saw? Many different microwaves in this world

3. What was the date of the newspaper? (how new/old is the information?)

This post has been edited by Armesh: Feb 2 2015, 08:54 PM

Phones also have microwaves, especially stupid phones. But now almost everyone are having 1 stupid phone in their pocket.

all the facts aside, I understand if ppl want to use microwave to heat the food up but I still don't understand using one to cook food. R u that lazy/ busy?

This post has been edited by janson_kaniaz: Feb 2 2015, 10:23 PM

wah... speak with 1. 2. 3. points.

you sound like microwave will not affect health at all.

sorry then boss, you ask me prove? sorry I don't have it. you win


from the way you talk i can know you sure have lots of lots of true heart friends. sure a lot.

im jelly of you

This post has been edited by CyrusWong: Feb 2 2015, 11:04 PM

ive done that in lab and i remember there is a HK show that had debunked this myth too

when the microwave is running, the radiation is high, once you stop it, even if you put the detector at the middle of the microwave or cucuk into your food, the reading is just normal background radiation reading

**i managed to find the video, its in 學是學非 season 1 EP 3

http://www.56.com/u57/v_OTY5NDQxMDI.html

if the link doesnt work, google that video and find for other link that works

Amount of radiation in food is not the matter here. How about the assertions in the following article?

Questions on his credibility aside, was wondering if any of the assertions / sources quoted in his article have been refuted?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/m...r_b_684662.html

the point of the thread is to discuss ? well, i dono .. it sound ok for me ..

if you're worry about the radiation when operating it, just put a timer then go to your living room, but most of the microwave complies with the FDA law that it needs to operate under a certain level of radiation

if you're worry about it breaking bonds and changing chemical structures/ bonding of the compound in the food, well, grilling the meats also produces heterocyclic amines which can cause cancer, unless you decided to cook them at a particular temperature which the meats veges and eggs is gon taste like the carcinogens which produced from microwaving food are all in the juices, which later gets drained out from the meat, so basically its less nutritious but also less dangerous

well i understand that all the microwaved food is dehydrated, taste like shit, but water molecule still turns into vapor in any form of cooking/ heating, its just diff amount, with microwaving, its too dry to taste good

so i just got a heat convection oven which cooks as fast( i think even faster) and taste better it just cycles hot air and heats up the food

just in short, microwaved food is not dangerous, its just slightly less nutritious (considering you dont put it in plastic container then proceed to microwave it)

We know steaming is the safest and also retain the most nutrients, assuming not using cookware like aluminium or stainless steel that can easily leach heavy metals. This is followed by stir-frying, and then by deep frying.

So for health purposes, steaming > stir frying > deep frying > barbecuing / microwave (altered compounds of microwaved food vs carcinogens in bbq) ?

nutrition wise yeah

but i cant imagine eating it everyday so might as well just pop a few multivit

Hmm, is it only nutrition retention? Seems like we're talking about carcinogens here too.

Lol just use it. It's not like it's a tiny Chernobyl cooking box or whatsoever filled with uranium 238 with the half life of 4.5 billion years .