"Default User" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook©®" wrote:
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> > Microwave king crab? Whoever would do this deserves to be drowned in
melted
> > butter.
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>
> Again, you aren't microwaving the food. Read what it said. You are
> steaming it.


The microwave energy penetrates the cells. It then causes the internal
water to vaporize which ruptures the cell. This is not steaming.
Microwaving is a unique form of cooking. I have never eaten any microwave
food that I cannot immediately detect as such due to its rubbery texture.

Paul