What food can not be put in the microwave oven

April 30, 2023
Many people are used to microwave ovens to heat the food that has been cold, so convenient and fast, so the microwave oven is an essential piece of equipment in the kitchen, but when using the microwave oven, there are some taboos can not forget, so what food can not be put into the microwave oven?

Processed to half-cooked meat

In the semi-cooked meat, the bacteria will still grow, the second time then microwave heating, because the heating time is short, it is not possible to kill all the bacteria, frozen meat food must be thawed first, and then heated to mature food to eat.

Eggs in shell

Both raw and cooked eggs should not be heated in the microwave oven, because rapid heating in the microwave oven will create more steam in the egg, the internal heating of the egg expands, and the shell blocks the gas, which can cause the whole egg to burst.

Vegetables

Vegetables contain a large amount of water-soluble vitamin C, in the microwave oven after ultra-high temperature heating, the nutrients contained will be greatly damaged, especially easy to cause vitamin C does, long-term eating this vegetable, eat more will also lead to vitamin C deficiency.

Chili pepper

Chili peppers in the microwave oven when heated, there is a risk of burning up, because the dried chili peppers do not contain water, so in the process of high temperature is easy to catch fire, and chili peppers have volatile irritant, easy to stimulate the human eye and respiratory tract, causing discomfort.

Hot food

If the temperature of the food is already high, and then put into the microwave oven, are prone to carcinogens, such as french fries, baked snacks, heating food up to 120 degrees, the reaction of amino acids and carbohydrates in food, will generate carcinogens.

Pizza

Pizza is best not to put into the microwave heating to eat, because the pizza originally contains a certain amount of water, if heated in the microwave oven after eating, will let the pizza in the water is evaporated, the heated pizza will become dry and hard, and lose the original taste.
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