prgclb (12/14/82)
With all this talk about adapting recipes to microwave ovens, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the value of a browning grille. For those who don't know about it, a browning grille is a ceramic (e.g. Corningware) flat-surfaced plate with a metal substrate (I think it's tin oxide -- can any metallurgists in the crowd confirm this?). You pre-heat the grille by "cooking" it ALONE for several minutes (maximum of six minutes in my Amana Radarange), and the tin oxide absorbs the microwaves, making the ceramic cooking surface HOT. Then you place burgers, pork chops, chicken, etc. on the grille and pop it back in the oven to cook. The hot cooking grille surface browns the meat, and the microwaves cook the innards. That way you can get burgers that are browned on the outside, pink on the inside, and done in two-to-three minutes. By the way -- this causes a lot of grease spattering, so you always should use the matching glass lid. On my grille set, this lid is the same as a square 6x6 glass cake pan. In short -- it's a very useful gadget! Carl Blesch
berry (12/26/82)
#R:ihuxm:-13200:zinfandel:4300006:000:511 zinfandel!berry Dec 17 10:42:00 1982 I read of a browning gadget for microwave ovens in Design News. It consists of two pieces of ceramic with metal stuff shaped sometning like this (cross section): _________________ / \ / \ / \ \_____________/ The gap between the two pieces is carefully calculated to form a "quarter-wave choke" for obscure reasons (I didn't read that carefully), and it browns both sides at once. I'd get one if I HAD a microwave oven.... --Berry Kercheval
berry (12/27/82)
#R:ihuxm:-13200:zinfandel:4300006:000:511 zinfandel!berry Dec 17 10:42:00 1982 I read of a browning gadget for microwave ovens in Design News. It consists of two pieces of ceramic with metal stuff shaped sometning like this (cross section): _________________ / \ / \ / \ \_____________/ The gap between the two pieces is carefully calculated to form a "quarter-wave choke" for obscure reasons (I didn't read that carefully), and it browns
mark (12/30/82)
#R:ihuxm:-13200:zinfandel:4300007:000:99 zinfandel!mark Dec 20 09:18:00 1982 Get one anyway; I hear that they work if you set them within about 2 feet of most terminals. mark