Ok here goes! Im a Bsc and MSci hons graduate of Food science and technology and human nutrition. I was a chef for 21 years also! As you will understand i know a fair bit about microwaves eh! the info is bullshit period! absolute bullshit! what has been posted and presented as dangers are all long proven myths!
every single one of the ten points presented is nonsence, best placed in the DIF liars den!
some points! a microwave does NOT use radiation, microwaves are not radioactive! it bathes the food in high frequency radio waves (RF) and oscillates water molecules within the food at the given frequency normally about 2.5ghz, causing the water to heat up through vibritory effects. ie friction.
microwaves preserve the minerals and nutrients withing foods and does NOT destroy them! what bollocks! the minerals and nutritional elements are destroyed to some extent in all cooking procceses, they are destroyed by prolonged heating, microwaves actually preserve the nutrients and minerals by shortening the heating time drasticlly.
plants do die if you feed them dead water! ie the oxygen gets removed from the water and for no other reason they do die off eventually. here is an experiment you can do (properly with a control) take 3 small plants, feed one with tap water, feed another one with cooled microwaved water, and the last one with cooled microwave water that has beed placed in a container and shaken vigerously for 30 secs before feeding th plant! you will undoubtivly find that the one that does not do so well is the one with plain old cooled micro water! the other with the shaken micro water will be just peachy! why? because you are invigorating the water and replacing the lost oxygen into its lattice
some free radicals are essential to our imune system, our immune system creates free radiacals, the outlying free radicals in food generally come from pesticides and herbisides or the enviroment and NOT from bloody microwaveing your food.
the rest of the points presented are just so completely stupid and dont even warrant comment, the ten myths were clearly presented by people who knew absolutely nothing about the technology they were commenting on.
but hey if any of you have any peer reviewed studies into these false claims i would be delighted to read them!
all that said, microwaved food is not very nice at all, and that is due to the fact that a lot of the flavour of our food is imparted due to the method of cooking, roasting, baking, frying etc! all things a micro is useless at. with a bit of tweeking they do make nice arc welders though!
Regards
) and feed the other with just normal tap water (yeah I know full of fluoride and chlorine etc) and just see what happens to your plants and HOW FAST!
