"pavane" > wrote in message
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> "Kent" > wrote in message
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> | "wingmark" > wrote in message
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> | > Hi,
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> | > The same as conventional cooking?Many things taste the same, some
> things
> | > taste better cooked in a microwave, and it's much quicker. I just
> | > wondered if they destroy nutrients in food though?
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> | > Regards
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> | > wingmark
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> | Good question. Personally I doubt that it destroys. The microwave
> produces
> | heat, but just in a different way. Nothing gets hotter.
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> Not true. Water can be microwaved to above boiling temperatu
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0
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> pavane
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I did not know that. Thanks for the post. This, from Argonne National Labs,
seems to be a good explanation of how this occurs. It's been a long time
since thermodynamics was in this brain.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc.../chem00636.htm

Kent