Saturday, January 7, 2012

How to get best out of your Microwave Oven

Microwave ovens can definitely cook good food but you still need to know how to get best out of them. Recipes that are provided for microwave cooking can come out perfectly the way they are mentioned only if you pay attention to the food that is been cooked with your microwave oven. So here's how to get best out of your microwave oven:

Always pay attention to the food you cook inside a microwave oven

You need to pay attention to the food that you plan to cook inside the microwave oven. Always watch the food while it cooks to achieve success with microwave cooking. All microwave usually has the feature of light turning on while food cooking inside the microwave. This helps us to watch the food while it cooks.

If the recipe calls for stirring the food do so!

Most of the recipe provides with instructions such as 'stirring the food twice' or 'elevate', 'turn the fish' and so on. Follow the instructions thoroughly.

Learn to make your own adjustments

In case if the recipe instructions suggests that the food will take cooking time of 15 mins, but you find the food isn't cooked well, then you should be able to make your own adjustments as required. This happens due to various reasons, for example the food measurements, water measurements or even the cooking time and temperature.

Working with cooking times

One more reason why the cooking time required may vary from cooking time mentioned in any recipe could be due to any of the few mentioned reason:

1. If the butter added within the recipe is ice-cold

2. The milk added in the recipe is ice-cold. Same may apply to eggs.

In such cases you should allow the food some extra time to cook.

Follow the instructions carefully

If a recipe recommends instructions like the food that is to be cooked should be removed from the oven slightly under-cooked then do follow the same. Such recommendations are called for recipes including breads, cakes and even custards. There is a valid reason behind so, including the standing time. Most of the recipes get cooked during the standing time, i.e. the food still continues to cook with the heat that is trapped inside the food so in case you don't believe in removing the food fro the oven until its cooked thoroughly, remember you are over-cooking the food.

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