Out of date food or stuff you shouldn't eat Page 4

Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 18 2009, 6:12 PM BST

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.

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Iiiiiinteresting.

Quote: Jane P @ April 18 2009, 7:18 PM BST

P.S. Scatterbrained Floozy - you have just proved that your name is a total sham! You obviously paid attention in school after all!

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She is by far the cleverest BSG user. Her brain is the size of a medium-sized planet. At least.

>_< Not at alllll!

Quote: Jane P @ April 18 2009, 7:18 PM BST

P.S. Scatterbrained Floozy - you have just proved that your name is a total sham! You obviously paid attention in school after all!

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And "pay attention", strictly speaking.

Aaaaand Elliot just told me that he remembers the exact same GCSE paper question, so it's just something they like to teach us on the science curriculum, obviously!

Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 18 2009, 8:00 PM BST

>_< Not at alllll!And "pay attention", strictly speaking. Aaaaand Elliot just told me that he remembers the exact same GCSE paper question, so it's just something they like to teach us on the science curriculum, obviously!

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Stop making me feel old!

Actually I'm still reeling from the shock that vegetables are more likely to give you food poisoning than meat - SF as the Stephen Fry of this thread can you confirm or deny this please?

I also heard this week that too much chocolate can cause kidney stones.

Obviously I'm hoping that's just a wild rumour.

The internet tells me that it's true about chocolate because too much of it raises your body's oxalate's levels, which reduced calcium reabsorption - calcium oxalate stones being formed, or something. Also true of strawberries, wheat bran, nuts, and tea, amongst other things.

And I have no idea about food poisoning, but I think washing/cooking foods properly is always key, to be honest, rather than avoiding one food group.

I'm doomed if strawberries are high in it too SF!

This thread is depressing me now.

http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/is-your-produce-poisoned/003a323b0b803110VgnVCM20000012281eac____/nutrition.recipes/grocery.guru/food.safety.basics/0/0/1

It's eating out that concerns me. One tip though is to avoid the salad garnish certain pubs put out with their sandwiches as some tightwads will scrape what's not touched from one person's plate and put it on another. Tsk.

The trouble is once you start talking about food everyone has a horror story!