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madengr | 2 years ago

Expanded polystyrene has an extremely low loss tangent and dielectric constant, so I fail to see how microwave heating causes more chemical leaching than hot water.

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webmaven|2 years ago

Hot water only reaches 100°C regardless, but any fats in the soup can reach higher temperatures in a microwave.

trehalose|2 years ago

One might think the water in the soup would moderate the temperature of the other components and keep them from reaching significantly above its own boiling point. Is this intuition not entirely accurate?