View Single Post
  #1 (permalink)   Report Post  
Allan Adler
 
Posts: n/a
Default baking with microwave


I don't have any recipes for baking bread with a microwave oven.
I think microwaves ovens are not interchangeable, so a recipe from
a book with one microwave in mind might not work on another.

So far, I've been improvising. I tried just mixing some flour, water
and baking soda and putting it right in the microwave. If I simply let
it cook for a couple of minutes at full power, it gets all hard and dried
out and looks somewhat burned. If I cook it at the lowest possible power,
it dries out much more slowly and never seems to burn but also never seems
to quite cook. To deal with that last problem, I've let it cook for 1 minute
at full power. I've tried making rolls and small loaves and have obtained
results that I'm not sorry about having eaten but which don't really
seem like bread. They are quite dense. I'm hoping to do better once I
can let the dough rise, but I really need to have some rational way to
think about using the microwave for this.

I might be able to get some a few from the manufacturer, and maybe they
will suffice, but it would be nice to be able to go beyond that.

Ignorantly,
Allan Adler


************************************************** **************************
* *
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT Artificial *
* Intelligence Lab. My actions and comments do not reflect *
* in any way on MIT. Moreover, I am nowhere near the Boston *
* metropolitan area. *
* *
************************************************** **************************