steaming & deep-frying in your microwave oven?? 😮

If you've never learnt how to use your microwave oven properly, you're probably under-utilizing it!

Here are some protips for using your microwave oven:

1. Always put your plates on the edge of the rotating tray, not the middle 🍽️

This sounds weird I know!! Intuitively, you'd always place your plate in the middle.

But the middle of the microwave oven is actually a "cold spot" (and yes, this is the case regardless of how high-tech your microwave claims to be. I know a lot of microwaves these days come with some proprietary technology for more even heating but it's often BS - 10 out of 10 microwave ovens i've used STILL have a cold spot in the middle).

So what this means is that if you put your plate/food in the middle, it heats up more slowly and less evenly.

And conversely, when you place your plate on the edge of the rotating tray, it heats up more quickly!

2. You can steam food in your microwave oven

Wait, what???

Your microwave oven can actually become a steamer.

This is great for when you want to reheat leftovers but NOT suck all the moisture out and make it dry.

Just take a damp paper towel and lay it on top of the bowl or plate. It needs to be damp - that's how it creates steam!

Then just microwave your food as per normal.

3. You can deep-fry garlic in your microwave oven

Again, what????

Whenever I tell my friends that I deep-fry garlic in my microwave oven, they're always shocked.

It's actually super easy to do this, and it's a lot faster and more hands-off compared to frying garlic on the stove.

Check out my other post on Lemon8 about frying garlic!

4. Microwave-safe plastic is NOT safe

I learnt this only recently and when I found out, I immediately stopped using plastic containers in the microwave.

When you microwave food in plastic containers, there can be leaching (where the chemicals from the plastic leak into your food).

For plastic containers marked "microwave-safe", it doesn't mean that leaching won't occur. All it means is that the plastic won't melt in the microwave.

So only use glass containers in your microwave!!

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