taylor

Dammit, my faith in microwaves has been shaken. I was pretty sure they were the greatest thing ever and that they worked by just boiling the water inside the food or something like that. pretty much the same as just cooking it - but allover and really fast. Apparently not, I was bragging to KT about how I "discovered" that regular spaghetti could be made in the microwave and I was expecting at the least feigned disinterest. It was one of those deliberately stupid things that people bring up sometimes to be funny. I was shocked by her disgust. She saw my misuse of the microwave, much as I might frown upon someone who drives their car distances of less than one four blocks. She said, "...microwaving it destroys the nutrients." I replied with, "that's hippie bullshit", and that I would look it up. I did. I guess it's kind of a toss-up as far as the results go. My own conclusions? It is a more different way of cooking than I had thought; and cooking method does affect nutritional value. It may destroy less of some thing than say boiling or frying it would. I think steaming seems the best though. I really don't know how that's done. seems difficult.