If you want a frozen pizza turned out particularly crispy, cook it in a special ceramic pot for frying.

Frozen bread and rolls can be quickly defrosted in the microwave.

Cheese from the refrigerator and can be quickly brought to room temperature, retaining its flavor and aroma.

Chilled fish dishes heated at very low temperature to within the fish did not start the cooking process and as a result, it does not become stiff. It is best to warm up, covering with foil or parchment, in its own sauce, drizzle the sauce in the absence of broth or wine.

Slices of fish, both for cooking and for heating or thawing sure to pack the dishes in such a way that their thicker side (back) was located on the outer edge of dish. Thin slices of fish are placed very tightly. In this case, the fish will be heated evenly.

Meat cooked in a special dish for roasted in microwave ovens, will be much tastier, because it is better distributed within the juice. We deliver fresh meat juice from the pores and become insulating layer, as it were between the meat and the wall of vessels.

Grapefruit pulp which is eaten with a spoon, heat it for 30 seconds at 100%. After this warm-up is separated from the pulp of better films. The same applies to oranges, which are going to clean off the peel and the pulp separated from the film.

Potatoes can’t cook in the microwave. However, if you fry the sliced ​​potatoes after preliminary softening in the microwave, it will turn out to be extremely crisp.

Any steam cooled cakes can quickly heat up, without adding liquid.

Popcorn (air-grain), sometimes sold in special bags for microwave ovens, can be prepared, provided that your oven with a rotating pans or if you yourself will often turn the plate around its axis. Popcorn with no special packaging needed to put in a pot, more transparent, it was convenient to observe the cooking process, and close the lid. Popcorn to warm up until the grains begins to burst.

Tomatoes to remove their skins, heated in a microwave oven only in cases when they are very solid. Soft tomatoes after processing in the furnace become flabby, are very difficult to remove the grain and as a result they are only good for mashing.

Butter from the refrigerator thawed within a few seconds after heating at 50%. But not in a metal bowl! If the butter warm up too long, it may happen that the outside it will be more solid, but inside is partially or completely melted. Therefore it is better after the first 10 seconds warming up to continue it only if necessary.

Sweet peppers require for heating depending on the size of 3-5 minutes at 100%. Before warming up they need to pierce with a fork several times and then leave for 4-5 minutes under a damp towel. Dishes with tomatoes and peppers need to repeatedly rotate around its axis, so that electromagnetic waves are distributed uniformly inside the product. Of course, this does not apply to microwave ovens with rotary pallets.

Rice can also be cooked in the microwave, but you do not save time. Figures conveniently cook in the oven just because that’s what it turns out to really crumbly and not burnt.

In the microwave oven can be dried herbs, mushrooms and citrus zest (not treated with stimulating substances, i.e., natural). Greens need to pre-rinse, dry and coarsely chop. Rinse mushrooms and chop. Citrus zests finely chop. Store dried foods should be in glass jars with screw caps.

As already mentioned, the time of cooking is not only their composition but also the initial temperature. For products from the refrigerator, respectively, will require more time than for the same products stored at room temperature. In addition, the cooking time is determined by the number of products.

The basic rule is: the double weight of the cooking time is doubled, with half the weight – halved.

It is important to remember for those occasions when you are cooking for two with a prescription, designed for 4 servings, and vice versa.

• The thinner the layer of prepared food, the faster they are preparing.

• For meals, consisting of several layers, such as casseroles, take care of leveling the surface.

• Large masses of food are prepared more quickly if they are from time to time to mix.

• Raw fruits and vegetables – potatoes, apples, tomatoes – must be pierced so that they do not burst skins.

• Eggs in the shell cooked in a microwave oven cannot be – they will burst.

• When cooking poultry, whole fish, languages, and similar products of non-uniform height higher, as well as thin slices during the first third or first half of the preparation should be covered or wrap in aluminum foil.

• For products with a loose structure to the cooking time shorter. A piece of meat will require more time than the same weight of ground beef.

• When cooking large quantities of small or chopped foods (potatoes, vegetables, meatballs, etc.) they must be laid in a circle at a distance from each other, and rotate dish of food to 180 °.

• For dishes where the meat (such as stew or goulash) is required to fry, you can use for grilling utensils in the microwave or fry the meat in fat in cooker.

• Large pieces of meat a few times to check availability, some microwave ovens are equipped with special thermometers to facilitate this task. If you have a thermometer, use it – if not, proceed as usual or measure the temperature with an ordinary thermometer Oven, which after measuring the temperature should immediately get out of the oven.

• If the recipe is approximate time (i.e., inside and out), then at the end of his first term, save a test for readiness.

Specified in the recipe while cooking refers only to the time when the products are within the power is on.

For example, you can not use any dish in your microwave oven.
To date, there is a wide choice of dishes for this device, designed specifically for microwave ovens.

Usually, the dishes for microwave ovens are made of heat resistant materials (ceramics fired, heat-resistant glass, plastic, etc.).

Glassware for microwave

This ware is comfortable and beautiful: the food in it can not be only cooked and reheated, but you can also bring it to the table.

Microwave is good and the usual dishes.

In the oven grill can be used tableware from stone, ceramics, heat-resistant glass and metal, as well as a foil for baking.

In microwave ovens are allowed to use utensils made of wood (for heating), paper, plastic, heat-resistant glass.

Utensils made of ceramics and stone, you must first check the strength. Also in microwave ovens, you can use wax paper and foil in small quantities.

Remember that microwave ovens are not suitable metal utensils and dishes, decorated with gold and silver rims or browning. It can lead to electrical discharges.

You also can not use a microwave dish from the usual plastic, because it may melt. So plastic microwave cookware is good for UHV.

Your only heat-resistant plastic, which is a special mark on the possibility of using microwave ovens.

Also in the microwave oven is better not to put the dish of thin glass, because it may break.

Heat resistant tableware (glass, porcelain, most types of ceramic, heat resistant plastic) are suitable for cooking only in the microwave.

Heat-resistant glassware is used in combination microwave ovens (grill, convection), for electric hotplates, gas burners. This heat-resistant glass cookware, porcelain, ceramics, subjected to more complex processing.

One and the other shall be subjected to sudden temperature changes.
- Glass is suitable only for warm-up and simple microwave, and then, if it is marked as “heat-resistant.” You can not use thin glass, because it is very fragile, crystal, because contains lead, silver, and the walls of the device different in thickness due to a convex pattern.
- To warm up a few dishes especially useful for porcelain. Microwave fit almost all of china.
- Choosing a pottery and ceramics, be careful that they are free of cracks and were completely covered with glaze. Such dishes are quite hot, so get to it with pot holders. Not suitable for microwave ovens are dark brown and black ceramic mugs, because they are very hot, but the content remains moist.
- The disposable aluminum foil pan from the heat can be semi-finished products. The height of a package of up to 3 cm Soups can warm up in cups of foam. In cardboard boxes, cakes, muffins. In paper bags, napkins wrapped sandwiches.
- Plastic containers must be marked with a special, them straight from the fridge can be put into the oven.
- The plastic bags may be thawed and warm products. However, if they close tightly, provoke an explosion. Now produce special packages for the furnace with holes.
- For the uniform heating suggest that you choose an oval or cylindrical bowl, a shallow and wide. For baking and soups – the high.
- Do not use for microwave oven and the wax paper cups with a waxy coating.

Microwave cooking Guide