Do you actually use your Microwave??

rosieben

I think there are two sides to every story. I believe if mw were really dangerous there would be more substantial evidence by now, they've been around for over 30 years!! When someone gives me definite evidence that they are dangerous then I will stop using them - same with my mobile phone...

busabus

After 7 years without one we got one as a wedding gift. It gets used less than once a week but is still an important utensil for me to blast stuff in.

As a money saver I reckon it's much more efficient to heat stuff in because nearly 100% of the energy goes directly into the food. Hobs spill out all over the place, and ovens stay hot for hours with wasted energy.

But you definitely don't need one in life, and I'm glad I haven't paid for it.

busabus

Justamum wrote: »

This is the reason I don't like them. You put radiation in your food then you put that radiation in your body. Doesn't sound like a good combination to me.

Your computer screen is radiating, and the lights, and the sun, and... omg you!!!! All forms of cooking create radiation otherwise nothing would get hot. Anything warm is radiating radiation, that's why you can feel it. Scarry huh!

Microwaves penetrate wet food to about 1cm depth, and make molecules like water (as someone else pointed out) literally flip out and really :mad: all the other molecules in the food.

What you're probably thinking of radiation is in the terminoligy of nuclear bombs and such. These are slightly larger devices that don't plug into your domestic power supply

If you'd like to know a little bit more about electromagnetic radiation I'd encourage you to read more, but if all you do-just look at the picture here http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html. You'll see microwaves sit snugly between radio waves (bad for you since rock and roll!) and visible light (good for you (in moderationTM)!) Also wikipedia has excellent information with lots of sensible reference material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave.

Hope that helps.

As for whether they're causing more cases of cancer - please provide evidence of controlled trials and we'll all sit up and listen. I personally doubt the mechanics of a microwave, smaller than my fist, and not used in a lab for splicing genes, is doing anywhere near as much damage as that 333000 times bigger than the Earth fusion reactor in the sky! (aka Sun)

busabus

greg123 wrote: »

Never, ever. We don't have one and haven't had for many years. Do the research, blasting food with microwave radiation is bad for it and can alter protein chains - lots of stuff out there indicating you can end up sick eating nuked food. Plus it kills everything, a home made soup will have a far better vit/enzyme count. Finally I can't stand the taste, I can taste a nuked baked potato a mile off, awful - even if it's finished in the oven.

I do sometimes eat ready food, but only oven warmed and only if it's got no 'e's in it. I also get no indigestion and lethagy after food as a bonus!

Greg.

Please provide your research as we would all be very interested.

Thanks

busabus

cheekymoney wrote: »

I agree whole heartedly with Greg 123!! Microwaving food destroys all the nutritional value of food..... It takes as long to heat soup in a microwave as it does on the hob.... people also seem to have lost the abilty to stand at a sink for a few minutes washing up...I do not have one because it destroys the nutritional value of food...I heat up things like shepherds pie and mousaka by putting them in a frying pan with a little water and a tight fitting lid and leave them on a very low heat for about 15 mins. This not only heats them without drying them out it also also give you the lovely cripsy bit on the bottom...!

I'm not disagreeing with the crispy bottom, no one should mess with that!!11!! I've found with a microwave you have to be somewhat creative to get the same results as a "conventional" approach - after all convention (and convection hehe) have been around for many years. I for one am going to start using my microwave more just to prove a point, so who ever started this post has a lot to answer for!

What we do need is a proper scientific test with like for like meals heated with pure conventional energy (gas + elec) and those with MW + gas + elec. With some creativity I reckon the meals with MW involved would create less environmental impact, and would have equal taste and even vitamin breakdown. In fact I'm sure there was a program on the other day that would be happy to try that kind of thing out, "Truth about food" or something?

Anyway, Microwaves on their own will have a detrimental effect on the general public - not just because lazy blasting will produce limp, bland, soggy rubbish, but because the standard shop bought microwave meal is packed full of artificial crap! It's more about education rather than regulation.

s.truth

It is interesting to read differing points of view regarding safety of microwave radiation ovens. Those professing to be scientists don't even acknowledge that all man made radiation kills. In these ovens, the molecules of water are vibrated up to billions of times each second, destroying the fragile construction of the molecules and creating a poisonous soup. Some may have heard of the lady in Florida who in the early nineties went to hospital for a hip replacement and all went well until the blood transfusion she had was turned to poison when the blood was heated in a microwave oven. It killed her, and was proved to have done in court.
Those who compare the radiation from the sun are obviously unaware of the difference between AC and DC. Those who say that all cooking is by radiation are unaware of traditional heating being by convection. Microwave radiation ovens were banned from public sale in Russia in 1976 on public health grounds. They were reintroduced when it was realised how much money could be made from selling them to people who 'trust the establishment'. What they didn't tell the public was that it had been found that the constituents of blood in a persons body changes just by being near food as it comes out of a microwave radiation oven, you don't even have to eat it for it to affect you. Think on.

s.truth

This is a thermal image of a head with a switched on cellphone next to it. A child of ten would have three times the penetration seen here. Microwave radiation is a killer. Microwave radiation ovens are killers whether we like it or not. The incidence of digestive tract cancers, that is from mouth to anus, have risen at a rate with a strong corelation to the increase in use of microwave radiation ovens. Stomach cancers are much more common in people who use these ovens. ----sad maybe, but true.

Kadeeae

Ours is used for defrosting, reheating and sometime veggie 'steaming' - don't know that I'd trade it though - at least yet

jonthedog

I have never heard such utter nonsense as this: :mad:

s.truth wrote: »

It is interesting to read differing points of view regarding safety of microwave radiation ovens. Those professing to be scientists don't even acknowledge that all man made radiation kills. In these ovens, the molecules of water are vibrated up to billions of times each second, destroying the fragile construction of the molecules and creating a poisonous soup.

All man made radiation kills, does it? What about radios, tv, grills, light bulbs, etc, etc, etc? I suppose that makes all 'natural radiation' benign? Tell that to someone with skin cancer. Proteins and other molecules can lose water content in the MW and the heat created can also denature the molecules…this is called ‘Cooking’. I believe heating up soup in this method is actually quite popular, so you would think there would be a fair few cases of people being poisoned in this manner…can s.truth come up with a single one, I wonder?

s.truth wrote: »

Some may have heard of the lady in Florida who in the early nineties went to hospital for a hip replacement and all went well until the blood transfusion she had was turned to poison when the blood was heated in a microwave oven. It killed her, and was proved to have done in court.

Over heating blood can cause it to clot; whether or not it is in the MW…it is not advisable to use pre-clotted blood in transfusions.

s.truth wrote: »

Those who compare the radiation from the sun are obviously unaware of the difference between AC and DC. Those who say that all cooking is by radiation are unaware of traditional heating being by convection.

This has nothing to do with electricity…talking about AC/DC is gibberish.
Grills usually heat by radiation…apart from George Foreman grill, of course, that conducts.

To those other correspondents who seem to believe MW ‘destroys the nutritional value of food’; where is your evidence? The complete opposite is true. It is far better than boiling food and on a par with steaming in that the nutrients aren’t washed away with the boiling water and are preserved within the food.

Microwaved carrots are particularly easy and delicious; wash, chop (usually there’s no need to peel), and MW for 4-5min with a salt, pepper and a dab of butter; done (as Mr Ramsay would say). :beer:

To echo another respondent above, don’t forget to lightly splash/wipe your plates with water before you heat them up in the MW otherwise the trapped water molecules in the ceramic will cause them to explode!:eek:

s.truth

I didn't set out to get everyone excited, I am just attempting to tell what I know. My interest in all of this is two fold. As wel as being involved with the industry, I was diagnosed with cancer three years ago and have looked more deeply into it than most.
Regarding AC/DC. Radiation from the sun is direct current and heats by convection. Alternating Current Radiation alternates the polarities of the molecules, which are bipoles, billions of times a second and as the molecules alternate their position attempting to line up with the ever moving polarities of the current they bump into each other and cause friction which creates heat. Only AC Radiation heats in that manner and only man-made radiation heats by friction. It isn't the burning that kills as it might with sunburn, it is a different type of damage altogether.
With regard to heating blood for a blood transfusion. The microwave only warmed up the blood gradually to body temperature. It wasn't heated quickly or overheated. The method of heating changed the nature of the blood and it became poisonous. The lady in question Mrs Norma Levitt died. Her family sued the hospital and expert witnesses were called to give evidence. It was proved that the blood that killed her. Experiments were carried out using the same method to heat the blood and elements of the blood were compared with healthy elements revealing the cause of death.
If you do not want to believe it, that is ok. Eating microwaved food undermines your immune system and makes you more susceptible to all forms of cancer but digestive tract cancers; mouth, throat, tongue, oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestine, rectum and anal cancers are all on the increase and the graph of the increase more or less follows the graph of the growth of use of microwave radiation ovens.
Allowing the immune system to be undermined will also allow the hormonal cancers such as breast and prostate cancers to get a hold.
Make no mistake. Argue the toss if you like but don't forget what has been said here when later in your life you or one of your family or one of your children becomes affected and you begin wondering what has caused it. Maybe then you will start to think, and if you choose to look you will also come across the evidence as I have and maybe you will pick up the baton when I've gone.