Named
the "Radarange", it was first sold in 1947. Raytheon later licensed
its patents for a home-use microwave oven that was first introduced by Tappan
in 1955, but these units were still too large and expensive for general home
use. The countertop microwave oven was first introduced in 1967 by the Amana
Corporation, which had been acquired in 1965 by Raytheon.
Microwave
ovens are popular for reheating previously cooked foods and cooking vegetables.
They are also useful for rapid heating of otherwise slowly prepared cooking
items, such as hot butter and fats, and melted chocolate. Unlike conventional ovens,
microwave ovens usually do not directly brown or caramelize food, since they
rarely attain the necessary temperatures to do so. Exceptions occur in rare
cases where the oven is used to heat frying oil and other very oily items (such
as bacon), which attain far higher temperatures than that of boiling water. The
boiling range temperatures produced in high water content foods give microwave
ovens a limited role in professional cooking, since it usually makes them
unsuitable for achievement of culinary effects where the flavors produced by
the higher temperatures of frying, browning, or baking are needed. However,
additional kinds of heat sources can be added to microwave packaging, or into combination
microwave ovens, to produce these other heating effects, and microwave heating
may cut the overall time needed to prepare such dishes.
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Parmesan Potatoes
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2012, Christine’s Pantry. All rights reserved.
Ingredients:
2
large potatoes
4
tablespoons parmesan cheese, grated
3
tablespoons butter, melted
salt
and pepper, to taste
Directions:
Pierce
potatoes with fork. Arrange in a microwave safe dish. Microwave on high about 8
to 10 minutes. Remove potatoes and set aside for 5 minutes.
Cut
cooked potatoes in half, and then pierce each potato flesh with fork. Drizzle
melted butter over each potato half. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and parmesan
cheese. Enjoy!
Christine, you must have read my mind last night.. I made almost the same thing for potatoes. Going to post soon. Aren't these fantastic
ReplyDelete?? We loved them! I know how delicious they are with the cheese! Totally recommend to everyone!
Hi,
DeleteThey are fantastic! Can hardly wait to see your post.
Mmmmm.... potatoes, cheese and butter. Can't go wrong with that!
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