We use ours a lot less since we go a Ramoska

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Very handy they are but I could live without one...and pretty easily. I can't say the same for a good pan. There is no substiture for the Maillard reaction...or a good pan sauce.

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I tend to agree. Although for me, it's three cast iron pans I've had since the '80's: 7", 10", and a 13."

I have this vision of passing them down to my grandson...

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You're talkin' to one Southern born, so you'll get no argument from me on the virtues of cast iron. Mine are well seasoned...especially the griddle...but I do like my new set of All-clad. But we digress...

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Not a fan of Cast Iron, wse have a set of Stainless Steel with half an inch of copper on the bottom. We don't do much frying.

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I googled Remoska, but I can't figure out how it operates.

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Microwave goodness

1 Coffee Mug
4 tablespoons flour (that's plain flour, not self-rising)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional) some nuts (optional)
Small splash of vanilla

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well . Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT!
(this can serve 2 if you want to share!)

It won't result in the world's best chocolate cake, but at 5 minutes from desire to eating that doesn't matter.

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It's a metal bowl (on a stand) with an electric hotplate built into the lid. It makes fantastic bread, stews, muffins, cakes etc It heats and defrosts and will do perfect sausage, bacon fried eggs etc. We even did a Roast Chicken in ours. They have been around since the 1940s in the Czech Republic under that brand name. I know there were 'electric' pans available before the war in the UK.

They use very little electricity compared to a big oven so you tend to do more baking and roasting than if you had to use your full oven plus, the bowl can be washed in the sink.

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I wonder if the lid heating and metal construction make it work differently than a slow-cooker/crock-pot.

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It's not a 'slow cooker' some things cook quicker than in a regular pan or oven

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I might have to do some experimenting along these lines with respect to chocolate chip cookies...

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There seems to be quite an anti-microwave oven faction on the internet, claiming lots of health hazards:

http://www.bodyecology.com/07/08/02/...ve_dangers.php

And for an even more extreme viewpoint:


source:http://www.ghchealth.com/microwave-o...n-dangers.html

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Well, having eating boatloads of microwave food for 33 years, I can state, unequivocably, that I have yet to experience a single one of those Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven.

"Extreme viewpoint" indeed!

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

You sure about that?

Yep! In fact, just today, I had my annual physical. All the poking and prodding aside, I'm in great health, aside from an infernal need for reading glasses...

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Given the comment about Lasers earlier this link might be of interest. Hower I think a microwave oven is about as closely related to a real Maser as a LED is related to a laser. Close but not coherent, kind of like a lot of my posts! I suppose if the oven cavity is designed for resonance then it is bordering on some type of Maser. Of interest perhaps is the way the door seals. Around the rim is a cavity that sets up a destructive supposition of the waves canceling them out so we don't get a leak. not to mention the Faraday screen in the veiwing glass. Some cooking vessels are designed to heat directly in a microwave. The browning dish for example.
Caution!
I used to put my pies in there foil dish as this would heat up directly and help warm the centre of the pie
BUT the dish must be shallow and continuous, Never put a metallic ring (gold leafed plate in etc) Especially if it already has a small gap!

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I had a coffee cup with a thin gold metallic trim. I used to use it in the microwave all the time without incident.

One day, it just started sputtering sparks.

Weird...

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Every year the safety freaks at our school board in Toronto come around and slap "Cauation: stay back 1 metre when microwave is in use" stickers on all the microwaves in the school

Talk about paranoia ...

Pete

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The ring is ok until it develops a gap.The gap may not be visible (at first) but was probably caused by heating up and expanding to a greater extent than the mug as the trim would be heating directly in the microwaves. This would probably take a few uses to occur. The ring with a gap is really identical with Marconi's first spark gap receiver.

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Kids may stand very close and look into the oven, if the seal or door is damaged, that may put them in the range of the evanescent waves from the leak. The eyes are particularly suceptable to heating damage, and if there is a hole in the metal grid in the window(many ovens only have a thin sheet of plastic on the inside, so if you slam the door on something, it might penetrate this and the metal), a child may decide to put their eye to that hole to see more clearly than through the rest of the grid.

Perhaps they are thinking that it is better to be safe than having a kid with fried eyes or something, it may be highly improbable, but highly improbable things can and does happen. It is a cheap and easy ensurance to have the user stand at a distance of 1 meter.

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#1 They have to heat less. A conventional oven transfers heat via the air to the pot an then into the food. A microwave oven "couples" with water and not with the material of the pot. Hence the transmission of heat now is directly into the food.
#2 microwaves have a penetration depth of 21 mm (less than an inch) into salt-water. As food is mostly made of water the centre of say, a turkey, gets less microwaves and the heat transfer from the outer layers to the innards are via conventional heat transfer.
#3 same reason as in #2. Heat is transfered via conventional means (i.e. one molecule banging against the next one when full of energy much like a dance room). The turkey is hotter on the outside because the HEAT MOVES FROM THE HOT AIR INTO THE TURKEY.

For the later points raised, such as health issues: no worries mate. Besides the well known thermal effects, not a single study has proven anything of concern. And I've raised two perfectly healthy kids on microwave heated milk. Especially my younger daughter sucks in milk as other kids coke.

Extracelestial.

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Good for her! It must have done me some good, as I probably went through half a gallon a day, and despite running into a few walls, have only broken one bone, which healed so well in six weeks the doc couldn't tell which one it was.

Don't know if it was all milk, but I'm sure it was part of it.

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I had a big black X-Files mug with silver on the lettering. I used it in the microwave onces and it started sparking and now I have spot where some of the silver melted and flowed down the side of the mug a little bit.

I thought it was the aliens trying to destroy the mug because the Truth was In there.

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Well, it was - until you went and ruined it all!

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

He ruined it by drinking it. All evidence of the black oil is now digested.

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Well, most of it. The rest will come to light in a few hours...

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Hmmm...

I suppose that if you avoid putting mugs with metal on it in the microwave oven, you will also avoid the wrath of the antimug aliens.

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lol, mug and aliens, I didn't even make the connection at first.

Turns out the black oil was just some expired cheap coffee.

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Are you sure? After all, that's what it was engineered to look like.

Did you have it tested? Scully's got her own lab, these days...

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

No, but it seemed to get stuck to the bottom of the mug, no amount of scrubbing could remove it. Must be that black oil doesn't react well to microwaves. Something those tin-hatters should think about.

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