[Small-Appliance-Cooking] cooking meat in the nuker

[Penny Leclair]

Every microwave is slightly different, so I would recommend you try to putground meat in a dish with a lid brake it up and try 3 minutes, on high, let stand for at least another three minutes,  taste it to see if you think it is cooked enough.

People forget that food cooks more after it has been in the microwave for a period of time. Rubbery tasting meat means it was cooked too much.


Penny Leclair and Jefferson from CGDB 

From: Sabra Ewing via Small-Appliance-Cooking
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 11:37 PM
To: Cooking with Small Appliances
Cc: Sabra Ewing; Sandra Streeter
Subject: Re: [Small-Appliance-Cooking] cooking meat in the nuker

I tried this to cook some beef for a taco dip and I don't know what I did wrong. Beef did not taste right. It tasted very rubbery and stringy. I have cooked fruit and vegetables in the microwave with success though. For example, if you peel and slice an apple, and then put butter and a cinnamon sugar mixture on each slice and then heated up for a few minutes, it turns into baked apples.
Sabra Ewing

On Apr 11, 2018, at 9:15 PM, Sandra Streeter via Small-Appliance-Cooking <small-appliance-cooking at nfbnet.org> wrote:
Sometimes when motivation doesn’t permit my standing over a stove to brown hamburger, I’ll just take a pound, break it into small pieces in a round glass casserole with lid, cover and put on “high” for 5 minutes, and it doesn’t seem stringy or flavorless to me—it may not be browned, per se, but when I cover it with other stuff like in a shepherd’s pie, or mix it with other stuff, it’s just fine. Also, when I do Italian sausages, I put that, plus about 1/4 cup water to keep it moist,   in a round casserole with lid also and nuke for 5 minutes; if it isn’t fork-firm, I just stick it in for another minute or two.
 
Sometime soon, I’m going to try my hand at a nice lentil/chickpea/lamb stew I read about recently, with all kinds of nice seasonings and even orzo and lemon juice, plus lamb chops which I intend to cut into bite-sized pieces with kitchen shears and not even bother browning. Just have to stock up on some of the ingredients, but I’m guessing maybe the beginning of next month is my target date for that.
 
 
Sandra

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