Cooking For Engineers

Amady · Guest

Is there any symbol used to understamp the container to show it is microwave safe?

Khathi · Guest

Katy · Guest

Larry, Microwaves can be used to kill microorganisms but the food would have to be kept at boiling temperature for at least ten minutes to do so. Any food that had been microwaved for ten minutes after it had reached 210 F would be pretty uneddible.

GaryProtein · Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 535

When you cook food, aside from making the flavors, textures and consistency more palatable, you kill microbes that would be found in normally healthy meat, poultry, fish and vegetables. We don't knowlingly eat contaminated or tainted food. The purpose of cooking is not to sterilize food. Sterilzed food (with the exception of soups that simmer a long time) would probably be overcooked, burned, dried out or just generally not very appetizing.

marge · Guest

I wonder just how safe are the polycarbonate countertop ovens, wondering if they leach toxins while heating and cooking food even tho' no contact is made with the food. Does anyone have an answer for me? Thanks

blagos@tycoint.com · Guest

I often see this term "Microwave Safe" used on containers, plates, etc. How is this determined? Is there some sort of standard test that products must follow in order to be labeled as "Safe"? Or is there no real maning to this term?

Thanks,

Bryan Lagos
blagos@tycoint.com

Michael Chu · Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 1654 Location: Austin, TX (USA)

AlexR · Guest

I have been unable to find any source which explains the use of petroleum as a coolant in nuclear power plants.

Could you cite one or two for me?

ponkan · Guest

He didn't say that nuclear plants cool with petroleum -- most use evaporative (water) cooling, which is the purpose of the familiar concave tower. The extra heat is used to power the distillation of petroleum into components. This method of using the waste products of whatever generation technique is called "cogeneration".

Put another way, power plants (coal, natural gas, nuclear) produce electricity and heat. The heat is usually just exhausted into the atmosphere. But if there is some process that requires heat to work -- petroleum distillation for example -- it makes sense to take that "waste" heat and put it to use. This way you get more out of your fuel, you can usually increase your power plant efficiency (this is important since they typically have an efficiency of about 30% or less).

aguest · Guest

The FDA is bought and paid for by the producers of the products it is supposed to regulate, namely the pharmaceutical and plastics industries. The fact that FDA endorses food grade plastics as safe means absolutely nothing to me.

Guest · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:06 am Post subject:

An acquantance uses ice cream containers for reheating large amounts of food - some times a gallon at a time. He is not convinced there is any harm in this. I can't believe there isn't. My ``gooleing' efforts brought me here - is there documentation someplace I can show this fellow?
Thank you

K3DE · Guest

Seems pyrex manufacturers are missing opportunity to make spoons etc. that can be left in larger containers of materials while being microwaved.

Obviously, using plastic or metal stirrers is awkward and time consuming.

Stirring, using pyrex (that remains in the food) would be very simply done!

Plasticsguy · Guest

You can use a 44 qt cooler to store your wheat, I believe the cooler material must be FDA listed.

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject:

Another option is to find a local supplier of bulk goods such as your local cooperative food store. . They often receive products in 5 gallon, food grade buckets. It is what I use to store flour.

Jk5552 · Guest

Pyrex doesnt make spoons? OUTRAGEOUS!!! thats so gooleing!
im going to throw metal bird seed at Pyrex for that!