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MICROWAVE COOKING INNOVATIONS
YOU CAN USE METAL IN A MICROWAVE OVEN
by Seth Levinson 8 Stratford Circle Edison, New Jersey 08820 -‐ 1830 (908) 756 -‐ 6829
Imagine, you open your microwave oven door, to take out a freshly baked pie, and find the paper pie plate burning fiercely, ignited by the baked crust. Pie crusts brown and paper ignites at the same temperature. You cannot bake or brown in a paper or plastic container that burns or melts at baking and browning temperatures.
You CAN bake a pie and brown food, in a microwave oven, in a metal container. When metal is used in microwave cooking, the results of gas and electric cooking are obtained.
Neither special food packaging nor special formulation of ingredients are required to cook food when metal is used as part of the cooking container in a microwave oven
Some foods that can be cooked in a microwave oven with the aid of metal are cake, two crust pies, cookies, rolls, biscuits, fruit turnovers, pizza pie from scratch, breaded frozen items such as fried chicken and fried shrimp, rare and medium steaks and hamburgers.
MICROWAVE
COOKING
REQUIRES
PROPERLY
DESIGNED
METAL
COOKING
UTENSILS
Properly
-‐
designed,
metal
cookware
uses
to
its
advantage
metal's
ability
to
reflect
both
microwave
energy
and
infrared
heat
energy
off
of
its
surface.
Metal's
special
ability,
both
to
shield
the
bottom
portion
of
a
food
from
direct
microwave
radiation
and
to
focus
microwave
radiation
on
the
top
crust
of
a
food
can
be
used
to
advantage.
A
metal
pie
plate
is
useful,
in
reflecting
infrared
energy
and
microwave
ene
rgy
off
of
its
bottom
and
side
surfaces.
When
using
the
metal
pie
plate
a
large
proportion
of
either
the
electric
oven's
infrared
energy
or
the
microwave
oven's
microwave
energy
must
enter
the
pie
through
its
crust.
Because
the
majority
of
energy
enters
th
e
pie
through
the
top
crust,
the
top
crust
browns.
Metal
can
end
the
undesirable
drying
of
thin
peripheral
and
end
portions
of
meat.
Metal
is
more
heat
conductive
then
glass,
plastic
or
paper.
Food,
heated
within
metal
cookware,
designed
for
microwave
coo
king,
will
be
more
evenly
heated.
Glass
breaks
and
melts,
paper
chars
and
burns,
and
plastic
melts
and
burns.
Burning
plastic
and
burning
paper
emit
noxious
fumes.
Only
metal
can
cook
at
the
browning
temperature
required
to
achieve
the
browning
results
exp
ected
by
the
consumer.
