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10Information You Need To Know

About microwave cooking

•Arrange food carefully. Place thickest areas towards outside of dish.

•Watch cooking time. Cook for the shortest amount of time indicated and add more as needed. Food severely overcooked can smoke or ignite.

•Cover foods while cooking. Check recipe or cookbook for suggestions: paper towels, wax paper, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. Covers prevent spattering and help foods to cook evenly.

•Shield with small flat pieces of aluminum foil any thin areas of meat or poultry to prevent overcooking before dense, thick areas are cooked thoroughly.

•Stir foods from outside to center of dish once or twice during cooking, if possible.

•Turn foods over once during microwaving to speed cooking of such foods as chicken and

hamburgers. Large items like roasts must be turned over at least once.

•Rearrange foods such as meatballs halfway through cooking both from top to bottom and from the center of the dish to the outside.

•Add standing time. Remove food from oven and stir, if possible. Cover for standing time which allows the food to finish cooking without overcooking.

•Check for doneness. Look for signs indicating that cooking temperatures have been reached.

•Doneness signs include:

-Food steams throughout, not just at edge.

-Center bottom of dish is very hot to the touch.

-Poultry thigh joints move easily.

-Meat and poultry show no pinkness.

-Fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.

About food

Food

Eggs,

sausages, nuts, seeds, fruits & vegetables

Popcorn

Baby food

General

Do

•Puncture egg yolks before cooking to prevent “explosion”.

•Pierce skins of potatoes, apples, squash, hot dogs and sausages so that steam escapes.

•Use specially bagged popcorn for microwave cooking.

•Listen while popping corn for the popping to slow to 1 or 2 seconds or use special popcorn pad.

•Transfer baby food to small dish and heat carefully, stirring often. Check temperature before serving.

•Put nipples on bottles after heating and shake thoroughly. “Wrist” test before feeding.

•Cut baked goods with filling after heating to release steam and avoid burns.

•Stir liquids briskly before and after heating to avoid “eruption”.

•Use deep bowl, when cooking liquids or cereals, to prevent boilovers.

Don't

•Cook eggs in shells.

•Reheat whole eggs.

•Dry nuts or seeds in shells.

•Pop popcorn in regular brown bags or glass bowls.

•Exceed maximum time on popcorn package.

•Heat disposable bottles.

•Heat bottles with nipples on.

•Heat baby food in original jars.

•Heat or cook in closed glass jars or air tight containers.

•Can in the microwave as harmful bacteria may not be destroyed.

•Deep fat fry.

•Dry wood, gourds, herbs or wet papers.