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Information You Need To Know
About microwave cooking
• Arrange food carefully. Place thickest areas
towards outside of dish.
• Watch cooking time. Cook for the shortest
amount of time indicated and add more as
needed. Food severely overcooked can smoke
or ignite.
• Cover foods while cooking. Check recipe or
cookbook for suggestions: paper towels, wax
paper, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. Covers
prevent spattering and help foods to cook
evenly.
• Shield with small flat pieces of aluminum foil
any thin areas of meat or poultry to prevent
overcooking before dense, thick areas are
cooked thoroughly.
• Stir foods from outside to center of dish once or
twice during cooking, if possible.
• Turn foods over once during microwaving to
speed cooking of such foods as chicken and
About food
Food
Eggs,
sausages,
nuts, seeds,
fruits &
vegetables
Popcorn
Baby food
General
Do
• Puncture egg yolks before cooking to
prevent "explosion".
• Pierce skins of potatoes, apples, squash,
hot dogs and sausages so that steam
escapes.
• Use specially bagged popcorn for
microwave cooking.
• Listen while popping corn for the popping
to slow to 1 or 2 seconds or use special
popcorn pad.
• Transfer baby food to small dish and heat
carefully, stirring often. Check temperature
before serving.
• Put nipples on bottles after heating and
shake thoroughly. "Wrist" test before
feeding.
• Cut baked goods with filling after heating
to release steam and avoid burns.
• Stir liquids briskly before and after heating
to avoid "eruption".
• Use deep bowl, when cooking liquids or
cereals, to prevent boilovers.
hamburgers. Large items like roasts must be
turned over at least once.
• Rearrange foods such as meatballs halfway
through cooking both from top to bottom and
from the center of the dish to the outside.
• Add standing time. Remove food from oven
and stir, if possible. Cover for standing time
which allows the food to finish cooking without
overcooking.
• Check for doneness. Look for signs indicating
that cooking temperatures have been reached.
• Doneness signs include:
- Food steams throughout, not just at edge.
-
Center bottom of dish is very hot to the
touch.
- Poultry thigh joints move easily.
- Meat and poultry show no pinkness.
-
Fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
• Cook eggs in shells.
• Reheat whole eggs.
• Dry nuts or seeds in shells.
• Pop popcorn in regular brown bags or
glass bowls.
• Exceed maximum time on popcorn
package.
• Heat disposable bottles.
• Heat bottles with nipples on.
• Heat baby food in original jars.
• Heat or cook in closed glass jars or air
tight containers.
• Can in the microwave as harmful
bacteria may not be destroyed.
• Deep fat fry.
• Dry wood, gourds, herbs or wet papers.
Don't
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