Anyone Else Not Trust Microwaves??

Discussion in 'Science and Nature' started by heehee420, Apr 16, 2014.

  1. if that were true you'd have died of malnutrition years ago.
     
      i think you saw this discussion well before you created this account, and you're trying to fan the flames, so-to-speak.

     
  2. I don't use one if I can help it. I'm not phobic, I just prefer an oven cooked meal. Something about microwaves make me feel uneasy but whatever, I'll live
     
  3. I'm not anti microwave, but it does change the taste of some foods.. for me anyway. It's just a form of cooking and we all know that different cooking styles bring about a different taste. Flavor is just molecules being read by your tongue, and different forms of cooking effect those molecules differently. McDonald's fries taste better to me after a lil nuking.. but some foods just seem blander. Not just from a crappy texture, which could be some weird subconscious thing where a disgusting texture results in a disgusting taste, but the flavor just isn't as good as it could be. Things that have a nice, slow cook seem to preserve flavor better. I still nuke a good bit of food, but if it weren't so damn easy for us lazies, I'd probably take the time to give my food a good cooking.
     
    I will say we had a microwave at work that looked like a fucking prototype from way back when.. One of those old ass ones with a dial, no turntable, looked like a metal box. I'd set that timer and go find anything else to do other than standing anywhere near it. Mainly cause I thought it was going to explode. I could feel heat coming off of it from further away than one should.. and it kind made me feel germy. Aside from that one, I don't really shy away from not feeling like moving away when I just need to be back in 45 seconds.
     
  4. I never liked him, I never trusted him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he's not!
     
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  5. Say allo to ma lil friend.........he can cook steamy radiated food in 1 minute flat.
     
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  6. If you consider your food radiated in the microwave would you consider yourself to be radiated too since you are hit with far more radiation than your microwave ever produces?
     
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  7. Dr sheldon I did lol at that, it was sarcasm, the door was open for your most famous line.
     
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  8. I was trying to join in on the joke by being serious. I forgot all about using my catch word when doing that on here. Been a long time.

    Bazingaaaaaa
     
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  9. Microwaves heat ma plate but not ma food
     
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  10. Get different plates

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  11. Or eat the plate...
     
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  12. If I could add some skepticism and some scientific research (peer reviewed)
     
    I hope this doesn't cause the backfire effect (http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html)
     
    popularized (understandable to layman) writings

    start here
    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/microwaves-and-nutrition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microwaves-and-nutrition
     
    if you don't know about the food babe then your brain is healthier.  She is a chemicalphobe: looks unpronounceable, so it must be dangerous.  And now for a logical fallacy: If food babe is on your side, your position must be bunk.
    other easy to read sources:
    http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2007/08/08/do-microwaves-nuke-the-nutrien/

    http://www.skepticink.com/health/2013/12/21/microwave-dangers-top-5-claims-vs-evidence/

    http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4080
     
    primary literature (still pretty easy to look at graphs/ read summary/abstract)
    You should be able to access the whole article on campus/ library vpn
     
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2011.02602.x/full

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613014441

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0309174009003751

    researchinbiotechnology.com/index.php/rib/article/view/57

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814614005706

    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17095501&show=abstract

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0023643812002836

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.4718/full
     
  13. I'm tellin' ya bro those mother f*ckers been jealous of ovens since the day they got put on the shelves... No I do NOT trust those sly-as-radiation-ass-b*tches...
     
  14. Who cooks eggs in the microwave? That's just nasty.


    "I'm to drunk, to taste this chicken" -Talladega nights
     
  15. People with burnt corneas apparently!
     
    I don't know. I tried making scrambled eggs in the microwaves a couple times, they just came out...weird. The microwave comes in handy but I'm sticking to the stove for eggs.
     
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    Yeah I don't get that. If you don't have time to cook an egg properly, just crack it into a glass. Bottoms up!
     
  17. i understand heating up leftovers... but actually cooking in a microwave? that's just fucking lazy.  :hide:
     
  18. This thread belongs in pandora's box, IMO.
     
  19. What's a microwave?
     
  20. I think debating about the effects of microwave radiation (or lack there of) qualifies as science

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