Alternative to microwave oven

[Peasie]

I am happily living without a microwave oven for about two years now. I don't really need one and my gut feeling is that they are not good for your health. Am I right in assuming this?

What is a good alternative to a microwave oven?

[diabolical_Tanya]

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an oven

[ILP]

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I heart my convection oven.

[Peasie]

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Can you boil water in your convection oven?

[ILP]

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you know i dont know? never tried, but i dont see why you couldn't put a oven proof container in the oven and boil water. somehow i think the stove top would be faster, though.

[Peasie]

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The stove top is faster fi tru.

But to warm up food, how fast is the convection oven? What brand? Is it separate from your range?

[ILP]

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I have a double oven. one is a regular oven and the other is an oven with a convection oven feature. ge is the brand. i find on average that the convection oven takes about a 1/4 to 1/2 time less than regular oven. also it keeps things crisp, unlike my experience with the microwave which sometimes makes things soggy and/or tough. I mainly use my microwave to make pop corn and quickly zap something. i dont do any serious cooking in it.

they do make on the counter oven/convection ovens. bought one for my parents few years ago at target and sent it to them in ja.

[Peasie]

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I am hearing about convection steamer ovens. These are mostly for commercial use but may be coming on the market for home use. I like the idea of a steamer

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you boil water in your convection oven? </div></div>

when you get ur house redone get an instahot put in the kitchen

[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">when you get ur house redone get an instahot put in the kitchen </div></div>

[johnnycakes]

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A microwave can't hurt you unless you're in the oven.
They may call reheating food in the microwave &quot;nuking&quot; but it's just another way of agitating the molecules in the food so they get hot.
They have a lot of uses but we got along without them for thousands of years and lots of people don't have one or need one.

[Wahalla]

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Theortically it should not be a danger.. But on cheap models I wonder if their sheilding is sufficent...While all the literature will tell you that the radiation is relatively bengin. And I wont aggue with that..

what I have an issue with is the effect that the leakage would have on outside molecules.. ie say how does it interact with polymers ? Especially with plasticers within plastics.. what would the effect be on these small molecules and how these would interact with human body... Now the aproach will be that this is unlikely and if it did happen it is too low to have an effect... However these moleucles while are large from a particle size and at the elevate energy level could combine with other chemicals and have a detrimental effect... But put this into perspective the same thing could happen when boiling... (However flying potatos produces one of my favortie chemical... Poly Acrylates and poly acrliamaides!)

But as you know ??? Yankee and chinese manufacture tells us it is safe and they know right !!!!

I however dont worry too much about that... Why ?? I live in a Granite house in the Grampians... That filled with radioactive Radon Gas!

[23JAM00]

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If you boil water in the microwave, let it cool and then water your plants with that same water, plants will DIE. We didn't believe it so, Friends and I tried it. Just don't do it with a plant you like.
I haven't used one in over 5 years. I warm up things the old fashioned way...on the stove.

[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: nanceejay</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you boil water in the microwave, let it cool and then water your plants with that same water, plants will DIE. We didn't believe it so, Friends and I tried it. Just don't do it with a plant you like.
I haven't used one in over 5 years. I warm up things the old fashioned way...on the stove. </div></div>

Agreed. But I like to warm up food and I do this on the stove top, but it doesn't always work with all food. I am thinking of a Miele convection steam oven in my new kitchen and and therefore




Built-in with standard oven under

[Wahalla]

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if you boil water and cool it conventionally does it have the same effect ?