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- From: rmrin@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (r.m.rickert)
- Subject: Re: The dangers in microwaved food...
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:59:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.175959.9558@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- References: <10200@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <1992Aug20.190055.8807@ll.mit.edu> <1992Aug23.010348.12676@EE.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Aug23.010348.12676@EE.Stanford.EDU> siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
- >>|> Or eggs. Unless the membrane is pierced they can build up a lot of
- >>|> internal pressure. The same probably applies to any food with a
- >>|> reasonably impervious layer on the outside. The quick heating of a
- >>|> microwave oven can turn it into a potential bomb which can explode
- >>|> when some poor soul cuts it or pokes it with a fork.
- >
- >I thought to avoid this by putting the egg into a big pyrex measuring
- >bowl full of water, hopefully leading to boiled egg, shielded by the
- >water. Wrong! After a minute or so of heating, ka-wumpf!!!, egg and
- >water all over the inside of the microwave (didn't break the bowl
- >however).
-
- I recently bought (for a buck on closeout at a gourmet cooking store)
- a little gadget that has an egg-end size depression with a very small pin
- mounted in the center. You put the egg in the depression, push, and the pin
- puts a you-know-what hole in the end of the egg. I've only tried it with
- boiling water so far (not the zapper) but it keeps the eggs from cracking.
- You can see little bubbles coming out of the pin hole while the egg is
- cooking.
-
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- Dick Rickert AT&T Consumer Products Laboratory
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