[net.cooks] Browning grille for microwave oven

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