What is the difference in baking with microwave oven and a typical oven?

by admin on August 20, 2010

Well, I am totally confused about baking stuff in ovens. The ones I usually see on TV and read on recipes about baking is that it should be put in the "OVEN" for about blahblahblah minutes.
I don’t know if it would be okay to use our microwave oven since we don’t have the big oven at home. If it is possible, please give me the difference if I bake stuff in the microwave than just using the big oven. Thanks. :D

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TX2step August 20, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Baked goods (and cooked foods) will never be as good in a microwave. It cooks too fast, and intensively. You’ll have harder areas (and gluey textures in baked potatoes). You need the air circulation all around it too, to insure even cooking/baking. Microwaves are intended to heat up and defrost foods, not do actual "cooking" in them

mqudee August 20, 2010 at 6:33 pm

The way the 2 types of ovens heat the food are completely different.

A conventional oven heats the food from the outside and in, slowly.

The microwave oven bombards the water in foods, thus making the water molecules move (the higher the effect, the faster the water molecules move), thus producing heat, which heats the dish up from the inside and out.

I have baked dough for a roll in the microwave, and the result was quite inedible. The roll looked just a little over-browned on the outside, but fine. On the inside it was completely turned into char coal!!

MyQute August 20, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Microwave oven may be faster and easy to set at a press of a button. But conventional oven can bake cakes, possibly grill and roast meat. Not to mention conventional oven has no radiation that can harm humans nor the nutritional value of your food.

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