[Horus]

It's not the ideal situation but I've found myself in a place where I will only have access to a microwave oven for the next on and a half months.

I don't want to go down the path of microwave dinners and would like to keep eating healthy food that I have found my body thrives upon best ie. mostly fresh meat and vegetables. However, I have absolutely no knowledge of how to use a microwave oven other than to steam broccoli and there isn't much that I've found online other than baked potatoes and Oprah's super healthy mac and cheese.

Does anyone here know of good recipes or relevant websites that can keep me going while I'm here?

[Thomas the Rhymer]

Microwaved scrambled eggs:

Crack open them eggs and put their contents in a shallow bowl.

Take a fork and whisk them.

Throw in some spices/herbs and whisk again

Put in microwave, but cover with a plate, because eggs like to explode in the microwave.

Microwave for about 2 minutes, check if its cooked, remicrowave for 2 minutes if not, repeat.

Once cooked, scoop scrambled eggs out of bowl and onto a plate, and chow down.

Some more complicated microwave egg recipes:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/arielknutson/eas...-microwave

[roberto]

Eggs will explode if the yolk is whole but not once beaten. Source: I cook scrambled eggs every single morning with no issues. Today I did poached eggs and despite pricking the yolk with a fork it blew up right in my face. I am the king of microwave cooking. Here's what I've just eaten:

Stick some butter in a container and melt it. I like to buy disposable tubs and plastic forks, I'm not that keen on washing up, and washing up defeats the bject of microwave cooking anyway- convenience.

Add eggs, black pepper and half a teaspoon of pureed garlic (this shit is magic good for you)

Add whatever chopped veg you like- today it was asparagus. Spring greens, brocolli, they're all cheap and work well. You may wish to pre-cook them in butter first- I tend to. Also, any veg is delicious solo if cooked in butter in the microwave.

Microwave for about three minutes, mashing it up halfway through.

Add butter, lots of chilli & curry powder, a generous dash of lime juice and mash it up again.


Variations upon this theme are endless. Another favourite is to make the eggs with garlic and pepper as above, then add mackerel and mustard. Pair this with black coffee for one hell of a breakfast.

Kippers are tasty, nutritious and microwave well.

When I used to eat a lot of carbs, I did couscous in the microwave all the time.

[jamaicabound]

I love Trader Joes brown rice, 3 minutes in the microwave and tastes better than most boiled or steamed rice I've made. For veggies I love costcos broccoli, better than fresh brocolli imho, its like under 5 bucks for a giant bag with 4 one pound bags inside. comes out fresh and with some crisp and not soggy.

Not sure what your situation is but if it's space or not having gas I'd also consider investing in a hotplace or a foreman grill takes up no space and not much power to run. even people living in vans and boats have these two things.

[DJ-Matt]

I would buy a rice cooker, they do more than just rice. I've made pasta in mine and other little simple "just boil it" type dishes. Just remember the good kind of brown rice takes about 45 minutes to cook.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

Ditch the microwave:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm

There are plenty of studies out there - even the US military experimented with it trying to cook everything via microwave for a month in a field-test. They had to abort the test after 14 days, because the men were getting sick in record numbers. The study was online only a few weeks and they pulled it soon afterwards.

There was also a big Swiss study after which the professor was fired from the university.

Microwave oven changes the molecular structure of the food and you get a toxic empty mush devoid of essential nutrients - but what is worse is that the structure of the food is indeed toxic.

Never ever microwave if you want to stay healthy. I would not even cook water in it.

[cooledcannon]

(05-18-2014 04:12 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

Ditch the microwave:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm

There are plenty of studies out there - even the US military experimented with it trying to cook everything via microwave for a month in a field-test. They had to abort the test after 14 days, because the men were getting sick in record numbers. The study was online only a few weeks and they pulled it soon afterwards.

There was also a big Swiss study after which the professor was fired from the university.

Microwave oven changes the molecular structure of the food and you get a toxic empty mush devoid of essential nutrients - but what is worse is that the structure of the food is indeed toxic.

Never ever microwave if you want to stay healthy. I would not even cook water in it.

Right on.

I totally do what Mercola advises, even though many people think what I do is kooky/conspiracy theory/tin foil hatty. Family is sort of annoyed by my microwave avoidance. Interestingly, they put my computer by the microwave, so I leave when they turn it on...

[berserk]

(05-18-2014 04:12 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

Ditch the microwave:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm

There are plenty of studies out there - even the US military experimented with it trying to cook everything via microwave for a month in a field-test. They had to abort the test after 14 days, because the men were getting sick in record numbers. The study was online only a few weeks and they pulled it soon afterwards.

There was also a big Swiss study after which the professor was fired from the university.

Microwave oven changes the molecular structure of the food and you get a toxic empty mush devoid of essential nutrients - but what is worse is that the structure of the food is indeed toxic.

Never ever microwave if you want to stay healthy. I would not even cook water in it.

Anecdotal. Let's see some Pubmed links.

[Drazen]

You can microwave sweet potatoes. Trader Joes also sells little bags of cauliflower and other veggies that are meant to be microwaved.

[InternationalPlayboy]

(05-18-2014 04:12 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

Ditch the microwave:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...zards.aspx

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm

There are plenty of studies out there - even the US military experimented with it trying to cook everything via microwave for a month in a field-test. They had to abort the test after 14 days, because the men were getting sick in record numbers. The study was online only a few weeks and they pulled it soon afterwards.

There was also a big Swiss study after which the professor was fired from the university.

Microwave oven changes the molecular structure of the food and you get a toxic empty mush devoid of essential nutrients - but what is worse is that the structure of the food is indeed toxic.

Never ever microwave if you want to stay healthy. I would not even cook water in it.

I question the study. I was on a microwave diet for at least 80% of my meals during 4 months. Getting rotisserie chicken, then reheating it via microwave plus eating green giant steamed veggies. To the OP you could even try keto, if you are trying to cut. It worked for me, I lost 15 lb, and I kept most of my muscle mass.

[Haig]

Hey,


If you do decide to cook with the microwave, I suggest buying some BPA (BPA is an artificial estrogen and carcinagenic) free microwavable bowls as they do not leak artificial estrogen into the food.

[Horus]

Quote:

Getting rotisserie chicken, then reheating it via microwave plus eating green giant steamed veggies.

That's a great idea and I don't know why I didn't think of that before. That's half my dinners for the week sorted there. Thanks.

[Basil Ransom]

Get a rice cooker slow cooker combo.

Personally, I'm not going to wait for a thicket of scientific papers to tell me that a radical new form of heating foods with radiation is okay. Traditional cooking may not always be essential to making healthy food. But you don't really know when newer, modern forms of cooking *aren't* healthy. So choosing traditional food prep methods in general will generally make your food more nutritious.

I have a combo rice cooker slow cooker, and there's almost nothing I'd use the microwave for. I did used to microwave potatoes for five or six minutes to make frying them much quicker, but haven't fried potatoes in a while. And microwaveable TV dinners are not on my menu... I only use my rice cooker and my stovetop, and the microwave can't compare to either in terms of results.

Or buy a toaster oven. I don't use one myself, and it's far less versatile in my opinion, but it's another option.

[kbell]

I think a microwave is great for thawing out frozen meat, cooking sweet potatoes brocolli and reheating some vegetables. Granted steamed broccoli tastes better.

[DJ-Matt]

Sounds a little tinfoil-hatty, I fail to see how a 2.4gHz directed radio emitter @ 900 W can harm the food.

[rainy]

Well, you'll be nuking your food so right off the bat is won't be all that healthy.

Working around that, never microwave your food in plastic containers. Shouldn't even have to ask why.

[EnemyCombatant]

Sweet potatoes are the shit. Cheap, super easy-to-make, consistent with a low-carb diet. Take one, poke a bunch of shallow holes in it with a fork, microwave it for 3-5minutes, then flip it and another 3-5. Cut that shit open and mash in some grass-fed butter and cinnamon. I have this at work at least a couple times a week.