Modern cuisine is difficult to imagine without a microwave oven. The microwave keeps vitamins and minerals in the food, saves time, and the dishes in it are cooked as delicious as they are on the stove.
But in order not to spoil the dish and not to damage the microwave oven, it is necessary to know which dishes are suitable for a microwave oven. In a microwave oven, you can place any dish that well passes the microwaves. This cookware should be able to withstand the contact with boiling liquids and extremely hot products.
Cook in the microwave can be in glass, special plastic, ceramic and earthenware. Only metal dishes in the microwave are completely inappropriate, like any other, decorated with metal elements.
Glassware for microwave oven
The most optimal option for a microwave oven is a regular glass, molds and pans from which you can buy in any supermarket. Ceramics, both modern and grandmother's, from hardened clay is also very suitable. Glassware for microwave can be heat-resistant or fire-resistant. The former can withstand temperatures up to + 140 ° C, the second - up to + 300 ° C. Of course, glass refractory glassware is more expensive, but its purchase justifies itself. It allows you to both heat foods, and fry, cook and even bake them.
To check if the glassware is suitable for microwave, put it next to a glass of water in the oven. Turn on the microwave for one minute. If the test ware remains cool and the water in the glass warms up, consider that the test was successful. If the dishes have heated up by themselves - for the oven it does not fit.
Plastic cookware for microwave oven
If you use a microwave to defrost or warm up food, then a food plastic container with a lid will be your best helper. But a microwave oven can be a worthy substitute for traditional ways of cooking. For this, only qualitative dishes are needed, it is not difficult to buy, it is important to know only a few nuances.
Plastic dishes should be heat resistant. Special marking of plastic dishes for microwave, which is usually located on the bottom, will tell about its heat resistance up to 140 ° C and suitability for microwave.
This icon on the microwave cookware indicates that it can be washed in a dishwasher, as it is resistant to heat.
Unsuitable for microwave microwave plastic packages are deformed when heated. Not resistant to high temperatures, plastic decomposes and releases harmful substances. To such dishes belongs Chinese plastic, from which one can not eat at all.
Products with a high concentration of sugar and fat in plastic dishes can not be cooked. They are heated to the plastic deformation temperature. Such products are best prepared in a special container that can withstand heating to 180 ° C or more.
Disposable tableware for microwave oven
One-time dishes with a heat-resistant coating can be used to heat food. Pies, rolls, sausages and sandwiches can be heated in parchment or paper bag. In the microwave, you can use special plastic plates and packages for the oven, which can withstand the boiling point. Just pay attention that there is no metal clip that melts the package.
You can even heat up the pastry by wrapping it in a cotton or linen napkin. But it is important to be cautious and set the mode correctly, because paper and fabric are highly inflammable materials.