February 28th, 2010 | 
Author:
Even few decades ago, there were only single mode of cooking food and that was through burning wood. But, now the time has changed and along with that the mode of cooking. With the advancement of technology people have experienced highly efficient and useful electronic devices for cooking foods, the microwave ovens are one of those. A microwave oven has bought a revolution in our kitchen. This revolutionary device utilises micro wave and electric energy to cook food items, instead of fire. There are variety of ranges in Microwave Ovens, each have different and useful features, but choosing among them is no an easy task. So, before picking up anyone of them, one has to have little knowledge of these Ovens.
Before buying any Latest Microwave Oven, the major thing that has to be kept in mind is your requirements. There are three basic models in these types of ovens. These are, solo ovens which is used for just heating up the food items, next is oven grill which is used to warming up the food as well for toasting and the another one is convection oven which is used for warming up, toasting and cake baking. So, it’s all up to and your need to choose the right oven for you.
There are several companies that offer Microwave Ovens that follow traditional regular buttons, while other machines are more advanced which use digital technology for more accuracy and user-friendly features. Several ovens come with features, like childlock that avoids endangering children. Also, every ovens has different power consumption to cook food. So, this is another point that has to kept in mind and choose the one according to your benefit.
Cleaning the oven is very important part, a cooking device has to be clean regularly in a proper way. For cleaning purpose, it is better to clean right after use. It is easy to clean with a bowl of warm water after heating the oven for one minute.
Cooking food in a microwave oven can be very healthy, as many research say that microwave cooked food are more nutritious than food cooked through the traditional ways. Moreover, this oven can be remarkably easy to mastering, if you once go through the manuals provided with the device. Some safety policies have to be followed while using it, including make sure the utensils that you are using for the device is microwave safe, plastic utensils must be avoided, do not add any extension cord with the original cord and so on. By following all these instructions, one can safely use the product and can avoid any danger.
Though there are several stores where you can find many branded microwave ovens, but if go for online shopping you can get various options. You can choose any microwave device with several offers. Therefore, you can avail the best one for you regardless of having little knowledge on products and the Internet.
Shruti Singh
http://www.articlesbase.com/kitchens-articles/ways-to-avail-the-best-microwave-oven-720965.html
Posted in Electric Grill
What is the best way to heat left-over rice using a microwave oven?
Using an 800-watt microwave oven for one cup of left-over Asian cooked rice, how long and how high (power) should be the oven be set? Usually the rice comes out too dry & not fluffy as when it was newly cooked. I’ve tried sprinkling it with water before microwaving. I’ve also tried "steamer" type microwave pots (where one puts a small amount of water under the bowl of rice to be heated). All to no avail - the rice still comes out dry and not fluffly. Perhaps there’s a problem with the settings of time & power?
To successfully reheat cooked white or brown rice, place it in a container that allows at least 2-3 inches of extra room. Sprinkle with water, vegetable broth, or mushroom broth just to dampen the top. You can cover the container and microwave on HIGH for 1-2 minutes, depending on your microwave and the amount of rice. Or you can preheat your oven to 400 degrees, wrap the moistened rice tightly in aluminum foil, and allow it to heat for 5-8 minutes, depending on the amount of rice. Both methods will give you a steaming bowl of soft rice. Top with canned tomatoes and canned mushrooms, thawed frozen peas, or fresh or thawed frozen broccoli or cauliflower florets. Garnish with granulated garlic flakes, nutritional yeast, chopped walnuts, almonds, peanuts or cashews, or, if you have the time, chopped fresh cabbage tossed with a small amount of soy sauce.
References :
I use the steamer and have always been able to rejuvenate left over rice. You’ll have to practice…. trial & error tghis one.
References :
The best is the steamer method: (steamer with hot water boiling on bottom level and upper level to place food that has holes to allow steam to seep over, all that on top of a stove), but it takes practice. Place the rice in an Asian rice bowl, and put it in the steamer when it is hot and boiling and make sure you cover. I should not take more than 5 minutes, check the rice every 2 minutes.
Microwave method: wrap the entire rice using ceran plastic cling wrap. place it in the microwave and heat on high for about 1 minute. Check hotness then heat again if necessary, make sure your turn over the rice first.
If it’s hot for your hands it’s hotter for your taste buds.
It should come out fine so long as it’s the first reheating and the rice has not been in the rice warmer for more than 6 hours.
Enjoy.
References :