Microwave yes or no? ?
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finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
You can be healthy and lose weight and sometimes eat boxed or frozen meals. There are plenty of success stories on MFP to back that up, myself included.
Regardless, that point is off-topic. She asked if microwaving food ruined the nutritional value, not whether ready meals are delicious or "clean".9 -
finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
FYI: You can cook good meals from scratch with good healthy ingredients using only a microwave as a heating source.10 -
finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
Maybe you're just buying the wrong microwavable meals. I've had some good ones and they're handy when I'm on the road (don't always have access to a kitchen), at work, or during days when there isn't that much time to cook.
Cooking from scratch is awesome. Having something tasty to eat that fits my calorie goals even when I don't have time or facilities to cook is also awesome.6 -
magster4isu wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
FYI: You can cook good meals from scratch with good healthy ingredients using only a microwave as a heating source.
Each to their own . Personally there is so many great chefs out there these days with great recipies that i would rather cook and learn from them . Everyone has different tastes at the end of the day .0 -
I use my microwave to thaw frozen meat, re-heat leftovers, soften butter and pop corn. It is a newish model that 'senses' when it's time to stop, and the reheated or softened foods are not excessively heated.1
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janejellyroll wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
How about reheating your leftovers? I cook a lot too, but I usually take leftovers to work for lunch...or I'll steam some broccoli for my veg side, etc...
I don't think the OP is talking about ready meals...I think she's talking about the microwave in general destroying the nutrients in food, which is total nonsense...
I have used a microwave to heat up leftovers . Maybe they are safe or maybe not . I don't know .
Would you really be using it if you had any valid reason to think it unsafe?
If it was proven to be unsafe i would stop using it 100% .0 -
finny11122 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
How about reheating your leftovers? I cook a lot too, but I usually take leftovers to work for lunch...or I'll steam some broccoli for my veg side, etc...
I don't think the OP is talking about ready meals...I think she's talking about the microwave in general destroying the nutrients in food, which is total nonsense...
I have used a microwave to heat up leftovers . Maybe they are safe or maybe not . I don't know .
Would you really be using it if you had any valid reason to think it unsafe?
If it was proven to be unsafe i would stop using it 100% .
Lots of things haven't been proven unsafe, yet we tend not to go around saying "Maybe they are safe or maybe not."
There are two classes of items -- things that have been proven to be unsafe and things that have not yet proven to be unsafe. We can never be certain that items in the second class won't be included in the first in the future. Yet we don't doubt everything on earth.
What reason do you have to think that microwaves might not be safe?
Vacuum cleaners haven't been proven unsafe. Do you go around saying that they may be safe and they may be not?6 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »I use my microwave to thaw frozen meat...
I forgot about that! I do this all the time, too. I used to have to defrost meat in the fridge or on the counter all day in order to have it be thawed by dinnertime. And I can't tell you the number of times I've taken out pork chops for dinner in the morning and then not actually felt like having porkchops when dinnertime rolled around.
By using the microwave, the meat stays safely frozen and I can decide right before dinner what's for dinner.
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astronaught wrote: »I think I use my death box on average once a day. This weekend I made popcorn. It was very good.
I have tripped the breaker in my kitchen multiple times when I forget that I am cooking in my Instant Death Pot and pop something in the death box at the same time. My poor kitchen circuit can't handle so much danger at once.
It's clearly saving you from yourself. <nods>2 -
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
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I use our microwave to steam vegetables all the time. I am often cooking multiple meals and it's easier and saves dishes to use the microwave when I already have a few things going on the stovetop.
I also cook ahead a lot and it comes in mighty handy for reheating leftovers.
We don't use it for popcorn, though. We have an air popper for that.
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So... I'm supposed to eat foods I cooked myself, in my own kitchen, exactly once, and then if I want leftovers I am supposed to eat them cold? What exactly are you trying to say, here? Or am I supposed to fix an entire meal from scratch every four hours every day?finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
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I use the microwave almost every single day. Heating up leftovers and particularly for my lunches at work which are almost always a small salad and a Lean Cuisine.0
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finny11122 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
How about reheating your leftovers? I cook a lot too, but I usually take leftovers to work for lunch...or I'll steam some broccoli for my veg side, etc...
I don't think the OP is talking about ready meals...I think she's talking about the microwave in general destroying the nutrients in food, which is total nonsense...
I have used a microwave to heat up leftovers . Maybe they are safe or maybe not . I don't know .
Would you really be using it if you had any valid reason to think it unsafe?
If it was proven to be unsafe i would stop using it 100% .
You know what is potentially unsafe? Cooking meat using conventional direct high heat cooking methods. What's interesting is that the National Cancer Institute recommends microwaving meat to pre-cook it then finish it through conventional methods to reduce the time meat is exposed to direct heat and not making gravy or anything with drippings. Most people would not follow this recommendation but it's interesting how many would jump at the opportunity to demonize the "death box" because a blogger said something.
I'm not targeting you in particular, just ranting about the disproportionate attention some topics that don't deserve it get compared to ones that do. "You never know" kind of topics vs "it's probably the case" if you will. (FWIW I'm not against microwaving, or BBQ in moderation for that matter).6 -
finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
I have quite a few tasty pre-made meals that I cooked in the microwave.
I've also had quite a few absolutely disgusting from-scratch meals made with "good healthy ingredients."
So, no.
As for your last comment,
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Microwaves don't remove nutrients. If you want to use one, go get one. I use mine all the time. In an attic apartment in the summer, everything I ate would be cold and horrible if I didn't microwave.2
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wi_denisha wrote: »I was on a program where I was brainwashed and one of the things that they said is to get rid of my microwave which I did and put it in the garage. I haven't had microwave food in 4 months. I was taught or told rather that the microwave takes all the nutrients out of your food and is very bad for you.
My question is do you use the microwave or not and how do you feel about microwaving your food nutrition wise does it take the nutrition out of the food or not??
I found having a microwave made me lazy and I'd buy foods specifically for the microwave. I soon got rid of it and returned to cooking my food normally. I reheat leftovers on the hob (it doesn't take much longer and generally tastes better) and I never have a need to thaw foods out, so that's no biggie for me. In general I didn't like nuking my food but I get a microwave is as convenient as getting in your car(and yes I cycle
), the microwave is just not for me. 1 -
singingflutelady wrote: »OT but this reminds me of 2 epic mfp threads. This one http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/694311/please-stop-microwaving-your-food/p1
And the microwave death box one but that one was deleted.
RIP Deathbox Thread...
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I feel like this was a big thing in the 1980's before being wholly debunked. Around the same time we had one of those little plastic cards that you passed over the door seams on the microwave to make sure it wasn't leaking radiation at you.
My (off-her-rocker for all sorts of reasons) aunt insisted that if you stood too close to the microwave when it was in use you would become infertile.
I was super paranoid about for a while at like age 12 or so.1 -
finny11122 wrote: »magster4isu wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
FYI: You can cook good meals from scratch with good healthy ingredients using only a microwave as a heating source.
Each to their own . Personally there is so many great chefs out there these days with great recipies that i would rather cook and learn from them . Everyone has different tastes at the end of the day .
I cook from scratch. And, because I take my lunch to work and often work late/get home late, I usually make extras which I take to work for lunch or have the next night. And sometimes I even heat up those leftovers, in a microwave.1 -
singingflutelady wrote: »OT but this reminds me of 2 epic mfp threads. This one http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/694311/please-stop-microwaving-your-food/p1
And the microwave death box one but that one was deleted.
We haven't had a good Death Box thread in quite a while. What a great Debate topic!!!1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »magster4isu wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
FYI: You can cook good meals from scratch with good healthy ingredients using only a microwave as a heating source.
Each to their own . Personally there is so many great chefs out there these days with great recipies that i would rather cook and learn from them . Everyone has different tastes at the end of the day .
I cook from scratch. And, because I take my lunch to work and often work late/get home late, I usually make extras which I take to work for lunch or have the next night. And sometimes I even heat up those leftovers, in a microwave.
For shame!
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singingflutelady wrote: »OT but this reminds me of 2 epic mfp threads. This one http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/694311/please-stop-microwaving-your-food/p1
And the microwave death box one but that one was deleted.
We haven't had a good Death Box thread in quite a while. What a great Debate topic!!!
Every once in a while I would think about the death box and go back to that thread for a laugh. I miss it. I now have to make do with the Flu Shot thread. May it never die!1 -
@WinoGelato @AnvilHead @astronaught miss that thread plus the epic KFC is toxic because it has sodium bicarbonate thread2
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finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
And if for someone eating healthier and losing weight means cranking out a calorie controlled frozen meal, more power to them.1 -
I went a long time without one, I just made do. Didn't really miss it, but got one when I went into a 12 week trial with no hope of getting time to do anything at home but sleep (and often not that), so I prepared by batch cooking a huge amount of food, freezing it in serves and buying a microwave. Voila, because of that microwave the hubster and I got home cooked, nutritious meals every day, despite the fact that I was working 16 hours a day.
I also batch cook my lunches for bringing to work and, *gasp* microwave them.
I don't cook in a microwave, and tend not to defrost in it (because I don't have an expensive microwave so mine if crap for defrosting). But I steam veggies for dinner, or reheat frozen veg in it almost daily as well.
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singingflutelady wrote: »OT but this reminds me of 2 epic mfp threads. This one http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/694311/please-stop-microwaving-your-food/p1
And the microwave death box one but that one was deleted.
THANK YOU for digging this up! I kept wanting to post "but... but..." and sort of had to sit on my hands. It was priceless!0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »finny11122 wrote: »I love cooking and turning a bunch of ingredients into something amazing . Only proper cooking techniques can get those great results . You want top quality food , you got to put in the time and effort .
Cutting open a preservative laden ready meal and dumping it into a microwave is not exactly healthy eating .
Would warming up the same meal in the oven make it any better? If not, your point is moot.
No . Cheap ready meals are bad in an oven or microwave . People come to this site to eat healthier and lose weight . Cooking from scratch with good healthy ingredients is a million times better and tastier than any microwave food . I bet you have alot of - I am Nino moments in your kitchen .
And if for someone eating healthier and losing weight means cranking out a calorie controlled frozen meal, more power to them.
Thank you for your support 1
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