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Is it dangerous to microwave your food?
This post will not sit well with a lot of readers, but I felt it was important to at least highlight this fact. Once you’ve read it … it’s up to you to decide what you’ll do.
I know I will shock half the planet when I say that I do not own and have NEVER owned a microwave oven. Nope, I don’t live in the woods or in a forest and no I’m not 90 years old. I’m simply a girl who never learned how to live with a microwave oven for a number of reasons.
It all started with the fact that I grew up with my grandmother who lived with us. The short story is that she had a pacemaker and the doctor warned us that if she ever got close to a microwave often, her heart would stop – end of story. I can tell that it was not a big decision to make as to buy or not to buy a microwave oven.
When I left home and ventured into the world, my Parisian partner of the time (now ex-Parisian husband) came from a family that didn’t believe in microwaves so we never bought one. You can imagine that as an adult who’s spend all of her life without the convenience of a microwave, I really don’t feel the need to buy one anytime soon.
That said, I do remember some funny incidence with my limited knowledge of the microwave:
1) My cousins did have a microwave and I remember it was such a huge deal for me to spend the weekend at a house where we could cook food quickly. I remember begging my aunt to bake a cake in the microwave so I could try it. My cousins and I waited patiently for the cake to bake (she made it from scratch) and when it was ready we ate it while it was still warm because we could not wait. I remember being so disappointed because the cake didn’t taste the way her cakes usually taste and my aunt came to the same conclusion when she took a bite. That was the first and last time I ate a microwave cake and that was the last time my aunt baked anything in the microwave.
2) When I worked in an office environment, I would buy microwave popcorn packs and bring them to office for a daily snack because I could finally taste what all the adverts where promoting, but the smell of the popcorn ran through office on such a regular basis that it became a distraction and my expanding waistline on a daily microwave popcorn snack forced me to put an end to that idea.
3) I took a hardboiled egg to the office and thought it would be a good idea to heat it up … since I don’t and have never own a microwave, I didn’t know I was supposed to cut the egg in two and spent the rest of my lunch hour cleaning the exploded egg that had stuck all over the place in the microwave … my co-workers talked about that for months to come.
These stories might be the lighter side of my experience with the microwave, but I will admit to having heard a number of negative things along the years about how foods cooked or re-heated in microwave ovens often changed molecular structures.
I found this recent article from Food Matters and I thought I’d pass it along. It might not mean that you should throw your microwave off your balcony, but maybe you might curb your daily use a bit.
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Photo of microwaved food by I Love Egg
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