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Goddamn_Batman t1_iwaxfnu wrote

Reply to comment by slamdanceswithwolves in How to shuck corn without leaving silk by Billybluejeans

A microwave is a machine from the future, it’s amazing in its range of uses

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AUniquePerspective t1_iwb1l3p wrote

I made a traditional fondue savoyarde in my microwave and triggered most of r/france but a microwave just heats things up. Admittedly it can be tricky to get the settings just right for whatever kind of heating you want to do but that's also true of other heating methods that people just generally have more practice with.

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eduo t1_iwbujdv wrote

Microwaves don't heat things up. They make the things heat themselves up which depending on what you want to make can yield radically different results.

This is easily provable by basic experimentation. I'm surprised it needs clarifying at this point.

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Fooly_411 t1_iwc8yn5 wrote

You got downvoted, but you aren't wrong. People just might not understand your phrasing or how a microwave works. It doesn't cook things the same way an oven, a grill, or a stove does.

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AUniquePerspective t1_iwcdo4a wrote

u/eduo is getting downvoted because while they may have something to add they've done it poorly.

If the phrase "heats things up" was some strictly defined scientific terminology they could perhaps argue I'd used the term too loosely. But I used loose terminology on purpose the same way I would with comparison between any of the methods that make food hot. Because to me the point is that the food gets hot. You don't have to understand how a microwave works to use it. The same is true of a kettle, an oven or an induction stove top.

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eduo t1_iwcppfc wrote

My point is that "just heating things up" is only part of what makes cooking with heat. Same way you can't make bread in microwaves because dough isn't just heated up.

To your example, enough french food requires a finer control of heat and it's application than a microwave provides so it's understandable they'd react badly to using it. Even for things that can easily be duplicated the process is usually not the same.

I already admitted to explaining it poorly though. Even though I believe my point would stand, by now it's stay buried even if I reworded it.

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PM_me_your_whatevah t1_iwde8oh wrote

You can absolutely bake bread in a microwave. You won’t end up with a crust though.

This example shows what I think you were trying to say from the beginning: a microwave heats things by vibrating the molecules directly. This way the heat is coming from inside the food, versus standard cooking where the heat comes from outside. Heat coming from the outside means the outside gets cooked more, which means you get a crust.

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eduo t1_iwcc12v wrote

Reading myself I think it also came across as unnecessarily confrontational. Problems of non native language. 😕

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Protobott t1_iwbtwcw wrote

It's actually from the past. Old timers were doing shit right.

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