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About Microwave Cooking
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Arrange food carefully. Place thickest areas towards outside of dish.
1. Watch cooking time. Cook for the shortest amount of time indicated and add
more as needed. Food severely overcooked can smoke or ignite.
2. Cover foods while cooking. Check recipe or cookbook for suggestions: paper
towels, wax paper, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. Covers prevent spattering
and help foods to cook evenly.
3. Shield with small flat pieces of aluminum foil any thin areas of meat or poultry
to prevent overcooking before dense, thick areas are cooked thoroughly.
4. Stir foods from outside to centre of dish once or twice during cooking, if
possible.
5. Turn foods over once during microwaving to speed cooking of such foods as
chicken and hamburgers. Large items like roasts must be turned over at least
once.
6. Rearrange foods such as meatballs halfway through cooking both from top to
bottom and from the centre of the dish to the outside.
7. Add standing time. Remove food from microwave oven and stir, if possible.
Cover for standing time that allows the food to finish cooking without
overcooking.
8. Check for doneness. Look for signs indicating that cooking temperatures have
been reached.
9. Doneness signs include:
• Food steams throughout, not just at edge.
• Centre bottom of dish is very hot to the touch.
• Poultry thigh joints move easily.
• Meat and poultry show no pinkness.
• Fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
About Food
FOOD
Eggs,
• Puncture egg yolks before cooking
sausages,
to prevent "explosion".
fruits &
• Pierce skins of potatoes, apples,
vegetable
squash, hot dogs and sausages so
that steam escapes.
• Use specially bagged popcorn for
the microwave oven.
Popcorn
• Listen while popping corn for the
popping to slow to 1 or 2 seconds
or use special Popcorn pad.
DO
• Cook egg in shells.
• Reheat whole eggs.
• Pop popcorn in regular
• Exceed maximum time on
DON'T
brown bags or glass bowls.
popcorn package.
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