I just drank some whiskey, 48 years out of date.
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Quote: Craig H @ April 17 2009, 6:54 PM BSTI just drank some whiskey, 48 years out of date.
I hope you didn't spit it out and pour the rest down the sink? 
Quote: Jane P @ April 17 2009, 7:56 AM BSTI'm the same but sometimes I live dangerously and eat a microwave meal without leaving it to 'rest' for the full 1 or 2 minutes stated. Then I worry about what the consequences might be - are there microwaves zapping around inside me like Star Wars or something?
My ex didn't care - sometimes he wouldn't even stir half way through the cooking time - I couldn't live with that kind of recklessness.
I hope that's a joke.
Quote: EllieJP @ April 17 2009, 9:53 AM BSTI hate it when you pour milk on your cereal to find out it's gone off when you take a mouthful.
Bleurgh.
Surely the lumps are a good indicator?
Quote: Leevil @ April 17 2009, 4:41 PM BSTMy missus manages to go in Holland and Barret each week and get given loads of free, slightly out-of-date sausage rolls and pasties or at least that's what she tells me...
"Free", yeah. No monetary cost. Just a flapping minge.
Quote: Aaron @ April 17 2009, 10:39 PM BSTI hope that's a joke.
Hey, just because I don't want my macaroni cheese dished up in one big overcooked lump as a result of 'someone' never reading any instructions, does that make me a bad person? No.
An annoying, fussy, possibly bitter one? Yes, I'll give you that.
Quote: Aaron @ April 17 2009, 10:39 PM BSTJust a flapping minge.
Your mum does what now?
Quote: Jane P @ April 18 2009, 9:31 AM BSTHey, just because I don't want my macaroni cheese dished up in one big overcooked lump as a result of 'someone' never reading any instructions, does that make me a bad person? No.
An annoying, fussy, possibly bitter one? Yes, I'll give you that.
Well you do realise that the "resting" time, as you put it, is just so that the food can cool a little? From the direct concentrated, quick-cooking heat of the microwave?
You're more likely to get food poisoning from vegetables than meat. Strange but true.
Quote: SlagA @ April 18 2009, 1:16 PM BSTYou're more likely to get food poisoning from vegetables than meat. Strange but true.
Here in the U.S. it's because some field worker in Mexico decided to have a poo on your lettuce. 
Quote: Leevil @ April 17 2009, 4:41 PM BSTMy missus manages to go in Holland and Barret each week and get given loads of free, slightly out-of-date sausage rolls and pasties or at least that's what she tells me...
Holland and Barrett do pasties and sausage rolls? I thought they were a health food shop?
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 18 2009, 2:00 PM BSTHolland and Barrett do pasties and sausage rolls? I thought they were a health food shop?
Healthy pasties and sausage rolls.
Quote: Aaron @ April 18 2009, 11:41 AM BSTWell you do realise that the "resting" time, as you put it, is just so that the food can cool a little? From the direct concentrated, quick-cooking heat of the microwave?
I heard the exact opposite Aaron, as microwaves cook food from the centre outwards, I was told the resting time was to insure that the heat was distributed evenly to all parts of the food item.
Particularly with in the bag style foods like curry, which you have to shake half way through.
I could be, and often am, wrong.
Microwaves actually heat water molecules in food first, and the heat energy given to the water molecules is transferred to kinetic energy. This causes the water molecules to 'vibrate', hitting neighbouring solid particles and giving them a higher kinetic energy level, thus heating them too. That's why you can't heat dry toast in the microwave, as was in our GCSE science paper. No water molecules. The waves only actually penetrate about 1cm into food, and let the collision theory do the rest.
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 18 2009, 2:00 PM BSTHolland and Barrett do pasties and sausage rolls? I thought they were a health food shop?
Lee save yourself they're evil, twisted vegetarian sausage rolls.
Soya pseudo meat in bulletproof wholemeal pastry.
The baked goods of Satan.
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 18 2009, 2:00 PM BSTHolland and Barrett do pasties and sausage rolls? I thought they were a health food shop?
Lee save yourself they're evil, twisted vegetarian sausage rolls.
Soya pseudo meat in bulletproof wholemeal pastry.
The baked goods of Satan.
You don't have to tell him twice. 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 18 2009, 3:57 PM BSTI heard the exact opposite Aaron, as microwaves cook food from the centre outwards, I was told the resting time was to insure that the heat was distributed evenly to all parts of the food item.
Particularly with in the bag style foods like curry, which you have to shake half way through.
I could be, and often am, wrong.
Thanks RP! I thought the same - but then I remember back in the day, when the average family first started using microwaves in the UK (before the days of the internet where you could check up on rumours and misinformation!). I didn't go along with the radiation theory but I did think that the food was still cooking after the magic waves had finished!
Jx
P.S. Scatterbrained Floozy - you have just proved that your name is a total sham! You obviously paid attention in school after all!