Anyone cook pasta in the microwave ?

[icowden]

Worth adding that if you are cooking pasta a good trick is to drain the pasta, wash with cold water then bring back up to temperature by putting it into boiling water again. It helps break down the starches into resistant starch and makes the pasta much more like fibre and reduces the spike in blood glucose.

This is really handy for my daughter who is Type 1 diabetic as it stops a glucose spike, but it helps everyone - you absorb fewer calories and it makes you feel fuller for longer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29629761

 

[figbat]

So presumably those ready meal pasta dishes would fall into this category?

 

[icowden]

So presumably those ready meal pasta dishes would fall into this category?

I believe so. If the pasta has been cooked and then cooled, the starches change. It's the "fresh" or "dried" stuff that causes the blood glucose spike.

 

[Profpointy]

The only thing i use a pop di ping for is for soften things up like butter or a slow defrost of chicken thighs etc etc for curry...........no way i be cooking food in one

"like" for the Welsh idiom !

 

[Hacienda71]

Had a go at this technique for poached eggs in the microwave this morning. Spot on.

View: https://youtu.be/uQJWo3QMJBU

 

[MontyVeda]

i have in the past wandered in lakeland - a mixture of the impressive and plain bonkers. I do seriously worry about its more dedicated shoppers. And their relationships - horrible visions of shopper returning to a sterile home with a mad glint in their eye and telling the poor quietly desperate partner about the new wonder device/presentation wotsits that will just transform their kitchen and lives.

Do they still do the tea bag squeezer? I've just been through the online catalogue and couldn't see the tea bag squeezer! It's a travesty if they've stopped making the tea bag squeezer. How else can one squeeze a tea bag without a dedicated squeezer?

I have yet to find anything that's quicker or less hassle to do in a microwave. Warming milk for coffee, possibly, but even that's marginal.

Peas and beans always get nuked. Far easier to wash a small plastic tub than my smallest pan.
My baking potato gets ten minutes in the MW whilst the oven is warming up, then goes in the oven for 15-20 mins to crisp up the skin. That's at least twice as quick as just using the oven

 

[MontyVeda]

Had a go at this technique for poached eggs in the microwave this morning. Spot on.

View: https://youtu.be/uQJWo3QMJBU

I like the way he measures the bowl; four-and-a-half inches... and precisely measures the water; half a cup... then gives us a very specific 50 second cooking time... but fails to consider or mention the wattage of the oven

I will give it a go though.

 

[Blue Hills]

Do they still do the tea bag squeezer? I've just been through the online catalogue and couldn't see the tea bag squeezer! It's a travesty if they've stopped making the tea bag squeezer

Seem to recall that I read that it had been removed from the hallowed shelves after it was discovered that folks were using it for certain BDSM practices. My memory can be dodgy though - it may have been that Lakeland themselves voluntarily and willingly removed it, rebranded it, doubled the price and now sell it in their special under-the-kitchen-counter range. Whisper the phrase "jam press" to the staff and they'll slip you a catalogue sealed in a freezer bag.

 

[bitsandbobs]

"Scientific" analysis shows that tasting panels couldn't detect significant differences between pasta cooked in boiling water or microwave...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260877407004554

 

[Profpointy]

"Scientific" analysis shows that tasting panels couldn't detect significant differences between pasta cooked in boiling water or microwave...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260877407004554

The pasta isn't going to notice how the water was heated any more than if a saucepan was on a gas or electric hob.

 

[mistyoptic]

"Scientific" analysis shows that tasting panels couldn't detect significant differences between pasta cooked in boiling water or microwave...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260877407004554

Sorry, that’s just wrong!

If you used a shielded, cryo-treated cable, with a special fuse, to power the microwave then it would taste much better

 

[newts]

Sorry, that’s just wrong!

If you used a shielded, cryo-treated cable, with a special fuse, to power the microwave then it would taste much better

I think John Lewis have them in stock

 

[Blue Hills]

I think John Lewis have them in stock

but only works with Waitrose pasta that's been rolled on mediterranean thighs and blessed by the appropriate saint.

 

[Hover Fly]

I mentioned this thread to Mrs T and she asked why it was on a cycling forum. I told her there was a long connection between cycling and penne, rigatoni, spaghetti, fusili et al, but she didn't believe me and went out for a walk.

She had to think again when a few minutes later I cycled pasta

 

[Blue Hills]

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do you have a pic of what those look like after 8 to 10 mins in boiling water?