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11/06/2006 11:01:18 PM · #76 |
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11/07/2006 07:08:03 AM · #77 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Microwaving is actually a great way to preserve the nutrients in vegetables because it heats them without having to use a steamer or boiling water, which will dissolve and carry off a lot of the vitamins.
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I'm always told that steaming is the way to go because it doesn't sap out nutrients from foods the way boiling does.
For every seemingly valid point there's always a seemingly valid counter argument! |
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11/07/2006 08:59:14 AM · #78 |
Originally posted by GoldBerry:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Microwaving is actually a great way to preserve the nutrients in vegetables because it heats them without having to use a steamer or boiling water, which will dissolve and carry off a lot of the vitamins.
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I'm always told that steaming is the way to go because it doesn't sap out nutrients from foods the way boiling does.
For every seemingly valid point there's always a seemingly valid counter argument! |
Microwaving IS (essentially) steaming, but without the extra source of water -- you are heating the water within the food. But yes, steaming is a bit better than boiling, because fewer nutrients leach out into the water (which is usually thrown out); if you make soup out of the cooking water you'll evenutally consume those "lost" nutrients. |
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11/07/2006 09:36:05 AM · #79 |
What would happen if you put benzene in a microwave? Nothing.
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11/07/2006 09:49:16 AM · #80 |
Originally posted by mad_brewer:
What would happen if you put benzene in a microwave? Nothing. |
Unless the lack of load caused an arc... ;-) |
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11/07/2006 09:54:46 AM · #81 |
Originally posted by crayon:
microwave to heat drinks, food, and some mothers to heat a baby's milk... I received this in the mail this morning, and while I don't know how true it is, I think it's worth sharing just for the sake of pondering:
someone made a simple experiment, and the result after 9 days:
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Simple explanation.....
The first used microwaved water while the latter used purified water. The is the potential that the microwaved water was never purified and metal, chlorine and other elements harmed the plant. I also wonder if the individual poured the microwaved water while it was still too warm?
That said, I've put the same plants on the same window and watered only to see one die and the other live.
Absolutely no scientific merit in this study whatsoever. Where was the control group.
I mean if I told you one person who ate a green gumdrop died but another person who ate only red gumdrops lived. Would you never eat green gumdrops ever again? |
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11/07/2006 09:55:19 AM · #82 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by mad_brewer:
What would happen if you put benzene in a microwave? Nothing. |
Unless the lack of load caused an arc... ;-) |
I believe it's because microwaves only excite polar molecules. Just one of those useless facts I can't get out of my head.
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11/07/2006 10:00:28 AM · #83 |
Originally posted by mad_brewer:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by mad_brewer:
What would happen if you put benzene in a microwave? Nothing. |
Unless the lack of load caused an arc... ;-) |
I believe it's because microwaves only excite polar molecules. Just one of those useless facts I can't get out of my head. |
The dipole moment of the molecule is important, yes. Every molecule has certain frequencies that will excite vibrations, just like a stretched string vibrates at a frequency coresponding to it's length and tension. A microwave oven puts out radio frequency energy at around 2.1 GHz or so, and this is where water has a strong energy absorbance band. Other molecules may or may not absorb energy in this band. Benzene does not. My post was attempted humor; an unloaded microwave has a tendency to arc, and benzene is quite flammmable... |
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11/07/2006 11:04:37 AM · #84 |
I remember this drink put out by Clearly Canadian called "Orbitz". It was a clear soda like drink with these little floatsy balls of geletin that were made to have neutral density when in water.
We tried microwaving one for 5 minutes. It didn't even get warm....SCARY!!!! |
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11/07/2006 11:07:33 AM · #85 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
I remember this drink put out by Clearly Canadian called "Orbitz". It was a clear soda like drink with these little floatsy balls of geletin that were made to have neutral density when in water.
We tried microwaving one for 5 minutes. It didn't even get warm....SCARY!!!! |
I microwaved a cockroach once. That was scary. |
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11/07/2006 11:11:25 AM · #86 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
I remember this drink put out by Clearly Canadian called "Orbitz". It was a clear soda like drink with these little floatsy balls of geletin that were made to have neutral density when in water.
We tried microwaving one for 5 minutes. It didn't even get warm....SCARY!!!! |
Dude, I remember those... precursor to boba tea.
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11/07/2006 11:14:01 AM · #87 |
Considering all the travel that, say, heads of state do and the number of them who live well into their 80s and 90s, I'd venture that the phenomenon is probably quite localized to mice.
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11/24/2006 04:24:05 AM · #88 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I might take it as valuable evidence if there were samples of 100 plants or so.
Even 10 or 20 for a personal experiment. |
My classroom replicated this experiment with 48 plants (it was also a double blind experiment). //www.eclecticscience.net
Also, there is a link "Examining the original experiment" where I debunk that experiment you refer to. Notice the leaves on the plants between day 1 and day 5 have not moved - plants move constantly, the leaves shouldn't match up. The experiment plant was pruned.
Message edited by author 2006-11-24 04:26:01. |
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11/24/2006 04:37:46 AM · #89 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Originally posted by theSaj:
I remember this drink put out by Clearly Canadian called "Orbitz". It was a clear soda like drink with these little floatsy balls of geletin that were made to have neutral density when in water.
We tried microwaving one for 5 minutes. It didn't even get warm....SCARY!!!! |
Dude, I remember those... precursor to boba tea. |
Except Orbitz came out in the early 90's and boba tea in the 80's :) |
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11/24/2006 04:41:09 AM · #90 |
| will microwaving silica gel and then using the same microwave oven to heat food cause food poisoning? |
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11/24/2006 04:44:54 AM · #91 |
Originally posted by crayon:
will microwaving silica gel and then using the same microwave oven to heat food cause food poisoning? |
Give it a try and let us know the results, kay? :) |
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11/24/2006 04:55:52 AM · #92 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Originally posted by crayon:
will microwaving silica gel and then using the same microwave oven to heat food cause food poisoning? |
Give it a try and let us know the results, kay? :) |
My Horoscope today:
"you will meet someone evil today..." |
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11/24/2006 05:26:11 AM · #93 |
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Originally posted by crayon:
will microwaving silica gel and then using the same microwave oven to heat food cause food poisoning? |
Give it a try and let us know the results, kay? :) |
My Horoscope today:
"you will meet someone evil today..." |
Funny, mine said that I would be able to talk a gullible person into doing something silly and potentially dangerous! |
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