Cooking rice in a microwave oven

Microwave ovens are an indispensable component in today's kitchens, and they are not only used to heat up leftovers, but can also be used to make a variety of other delicacies, such as cakes. In fact, microwave ovens can also be used to cook rice. Did you know this? Although microwave ovens have many different functions, many friends are now rather averse to them, believing that the food they make can cause cancer.

In fact, this is just a misunderstanding about microwave ovens. The radiation it produces is electromagnetic radiation, which has no carcinogenic effect on the human body, and it is indeed very convenient to use. The most important thing is that microwave cooking has certain advantages, such as:

1. Cooking rice in a microwave oven can retain nutrients. From an economic perspective, it uses less electricity than an electric rice cooker and has more nutritional value than rice cooked in an electric rice cooker because microwave ovens cook rice from the inside out, preserving the nutritional value of the rice, while an electric rice cooker does the opposite. There is no such thing as undercooked rice when cooking in a microwave oven. If there is more water, you can beat it for a few more minutes, and if there is less water, the opposite is true.

2. Cooking rice in a microwave oven can save MONEY and at least 20% of electricity. I watched an issue of Life Tips and this is what they said after doing an experiment. Because the rice cooker takes a long time, although the microwave oven has high power, it only takes 10 minutes.

Health Tips:

After food is heated in a microwave oven, no harmful substances are produced and no radioactive substances remain. However, after food is heated, it will cause more or less loss of nutrients such as vitamins.

Compared with general heating methods (such as boiling and steaming), the loss rate of vitamin C in microwave oven heating is lower than that of general heating methods. Especially compared to cooking methods that take a lot of time (such as stewing), heating in a microwave oven will cause the food to lose moisture, making it taste drier. Therefore, it is best to eat food heated in the microwave while it is hot.

This means that you can use the microwave oven to cook rice with confidence. It can not only effectively help you shorten the cooking time, but also will not affect the ingredients. It can even allow you to make different delicious dishes. If you are really worried about its radiation, you can keep a distance of 20 cm from it when using it, so that the radiation will not harm you.