The microwave helps today’s woman facing time constraints to prepare a variety of favourite delicacies in a faster and a simpler way. So she has more time for the family. Microwave makes the cooking simpler as the food does not stick or burn and hence it does not need constant stirring. The food is cooked and served in the same dish, so there is less washing up to do.

Cooking with microwave energy is different from the conventional cooking. In microwave cooking the vitamins, the natural aroma and juices are retained, which invariably tend to get lost in conventional cooking. As the food is cooked in its own juices, very oil or fat is used in cooking. These are some microwave tips:

• Never over cook as it become tough and leathery.
• Never pile food on top of each other.
• Food  is cooked better in a round container then a square one.
• Don’t add salt at the starting point of the cooking as it leads to increase in the cooking time.
• Don’t add more water than required, its increases the cooking time.
• Don’t deep fry in microware.
• Don’t cook eggs in their shells.
• Don’t cook and reheat puddings having alcohol, this can easily catch fire.
• Don’t use containers with restricted opening (like bottles).
• Don’t use aluminum foil for covering dishes in the microwave mode it may spark.
• Use deep dishes to prepare gravies.
• Filling the dish only ¾ to avoid spillage.
• In convection mode put dish on the wire rack to get even baking.
• Always preheat the oven when you want to use the convection mode. Grilling doesn’t require preheating.
• When making tikkas, tandoori cover the plate beneath the rack witk aluminium foil to collect the drippings.

Ex: Microwave popcorn without the bag of chemicals