You're running late for work. On your way, you stop at the quickie-mart, grab a frozen breakfast burrito and pop it in the microwave on the counter. Later that day, you have to work through lunch. By 3:00 p.m., you're starving, so you grab a snack-pack of microwaveable popcorn from the vending machine and pop that in the break-room microwave. That night, after a really long day, you're simply too tired to grill out, so you dish up last night's lasagna and heat it up in the microwave.
The microwave oven has to rate as one of the great inventions of the 20th century. Millions of homes in America have one. They cook food in an amazingly short amount of time and are extremely efficient in their use of electricity. Used correctly, life is good.
As with anything, misuse can lead to disaster. This week, we look at how to make sure you know your microwave and avoid the food safety issues others fall prey to.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." - Richard Feynman (US educator & physicist, 1918 - 1988)
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