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leapinlew:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 19, 2007, 09:36:39 pm ---Unless I'm mistaken, cellphones use microwave radios to communicate, and the level of microwave radiation coming from a cellphone is significantly stronger than what you would get by measuring the levels outside a microwave oven, so it's probably neither here nor there unless you've already given up the cellphone, which, I might add, you actually hold against your head for long periods of time.
Or maybe I'm just wrong about that.
Still, do your taste buds a favor and ditch the microwave.
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what?
I'd gladly give a few years off my life to save the decade it would take to warm up food.
boykster:
I'd rather wait a bit and enjoy my food because it tastes good. I have to admit with Shmokes on this one, I'm not a big fan of food heated in a microwave. I use ours to thaw frozen foods (veggie burgers for the wife) and heat water for tea. Other than that, I'd much rather use a pot on a stove to heat soup, and the oven for other stuff. I do miss having a toaster oven, great for quick reheats...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 19, 2007, 09:36:39 pm ---Or maybe I'm just wrong about that.
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I don't carry a cell phone. :) I think I might be one of the only people in the US left under age 70 and over 10 who can say that.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: boykster on April 20, 2007, 01:11:07 am ---
I use ours to . . . heat water for tea.
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I'm convinced that tea tastes better when heated on the stove or, if you have one of those water coolers that hold the 5 gal. jugs that also has a hot tap (which is actually much faster and more convenient than even a microwave).
I don't know if the microwave does nutty things to the minerals in the water, or if it's just that it's so easy to superheat water in a microwave (not boiling, but well past boiling temperatures) and it scalds the tea. At any rate, I used to use the microwave for tea, but now I always use a teapot or the hot water tap on my water cooler and it tastes better, psychologically at the least.
AS for the toaster oven, I can't live without it. We had one break and it was replaced within two days. Our toaster oven gets used on average at least once or twice per day, I'd guess.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 19, 2007, 11:43:06 pm ---
what?
I'd gladly give a few years off my life to save the decade it would take to warm up food.
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This is nonsense. You're so used to using the microwave for these types of things that you have exaggerated in your head how long it takes on a stove-top or in an oven. Throw a can of Campbell's soup on the stove and heat it. Time this. It takes a few minutes tops. Now do the same thing in the microwave. It also takes a few minutes. The microwave will win, but seriously not by very much.
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