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Food
Question
Answer
What is wrong when baked foods have a
A hard, dry, brown spot indicates
overcooking.
Shorten the cooking
hard, dry, brown spot?
or reheating time.
Why do eggs sometimes
pop?
Why are scrambled eggs sometimes
a
little dry after cooking?
Why do baked apples sometimes burst
during cooking?
Why do baked potatoes sometimes
burn during cooking?
Why is a standing time recommended
after microwave
cooking time is over?
Why is additional time required for
cooking food stored in the refrigerator?
When baking, frying, or poaching
eggs, the yolk may pop due to
steam build-up inside the yolk membrane.
To prevent this,
simply pierce the yolk with a wooden toothpick before cooking.
CAUTION:
Never microwave
eggs in the shell,
Eggs will dry out when they are overcooked,
even if the same
recipe is used each time. The cooking time may need to be varied
for one of these reasons:
Eggs vary in size,
° Eggs are at room temperature
one time and at refrigerator
temperature
another time,
. Eggs continue cooking during standing time.
The peel has not been removed from the top haff of each apple to
allow for expansion
of the interior of the apple during cooking. As in
conventional
cooking methods, the interior of the apple expands
during the cooking
process.
tf the cooking time is too long, fire could result, At the end of the
recommended
cooking time, potatoes should be slightly firm.
CAUTION:
Do not overcoek.
Standing time aliows foods to continue cooking evenly for a few
minutes after the actual microwave
oven cooking cycle. The
amount of standing time depends upon the density of the foods.
As in conventional
cooking,the
initial temperature
of food affects
total cooking time. You need more time to cook food taken out of a
refrigerator than for food at room temperature,
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