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Re: [Phys-L] microwave ovens




On 2016, Apr 26, , at 06:54, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:


Since the microwave heats more evenly, it produces less /browning/
of the food via the Maillard reaction. Browning has some advantages
in terms of flavor ... but it has the disadvantage of producing a
small amount of acrylamide, which is a toxin and a suspected carcinogen.
So if I were going to bet, I would bet that microwaved food is /less/
carcinogenic than baked or broiled food.

It's an interesting open question of how to produce desirable
browning while minimizing the acrylamide byproduct.

If you smoke cigarettes, that's a larger source of acrylamide than
any dietary factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide>


Damn! You beat me to it.

I hate cooking shows, especially America’s Test Kitchen, which praises the Maillard reaction, and engenders obesity.

Nutrition Action (CSPI) claimed > fifteen years ago that a well cooked steak (6 oz) was equivalent to six cigarettes.

Peet’s in Salinas prominently displayed the Prop. 65 warning of Acrylamide in their establishment.

http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-groups/one-list.tcl?short_list_name=p65 <http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-groups/one-list.tcl?short_list_name=p65>

Until about fifteen years ago I avoided darkly roasted coffee, until I discovered Latés, now I trade a shorter life (already as of the day before Guernica 79) for that pleasure.

There’s always Bruce Ames’ carcinogens and anticarcinogens in Science (AAAS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames>

Re: BA, I mentioned the article to an acquaintance (Bio. Prof. at UCSB), and he pointed out BA was funded by the pesticide industry. I don’t think BA is dishonest, as is (were) the shills for tobacco, et alii.

bc eats lotsa peppers, Cuties, and tomatoes. (Garden includes a Kale tree, and v. rarely uses the methane oven.)