Microwave Cookware Developed To Meet Demand For Fast Cooking
As more people become accustomed to using their microwave for more than making popcorn and heating up cold coffee, new products have been introduced to increase their microwave cookware options. There are essentially two qualities required for plates, dishes and bowls to be able to use in the microwave. Cookware has to be able to withstand the heat of boiling liquids and have absolutely no metal content. Metal, as anyone who has placed anything with a gold trim in their microwave will cause it to spark and even the small drips from bacon will warp plates not designed for use in microwaves.
Whether made from bakelite plastics or glass, microwave cookware is being developed to handle the many different food products being introduced for microwave cooking. As difficult as it may be for some to adjust to cooking in the microwave, the new cookware and some interesting recipes are making cooking a full meal easier and faster in the microwave.
Most recipes for cooking in the microwave are water-based, and many count on the unit's basic design of heating water to cook the food. It seems natural that some of the new microwave cookware be designed for cooking such things as pasta and rice, normally boiled in water on the top of the stove. These pieces of microwave cookware care rapidly catching on, especially with the inner baskets in which the pasta or rice is placed inside a water filled microwaveable container.
Many Microwave Products Designed For Convenience
In addition to the microwave cookware developed for cooking all types of food in the microwave, many more are being used that can be froze, zapped and washed. Plastic storage containers to hold leftovers, can be used as microwave cookware to heat the food for dinner and once empty can be tossed into the dishwasher for cleaning.
This can be a real convenience since many people are using their microwave to save what limited time they have in the kitchen due to family and job obligations. With microwave cookware able to withstand the zapping process and then be placed in the high temperature dishwasher, it also saves a lot of clean up time.
For breakfast, microwave cookware now allows people to hard boil eggs in their microwave, which is impressive considering the second item ever placed in a microwave was an egg that exploded onto the researcher conducting the test. Other microwave cookware allows the option of poaching eggs in the microwave in just a couple of minutes.
