Cookware for microwave oven

Modern housewives use for cooking various techniques. It can be a gas and electric cooker, an oven, a multivarker or an aerogrill . But much more popular are microwave ovens, which are available in almost every kitchen.

But, as is known, not for all microwave dishes.

What kind of utensils are needed for a microwave oven?

Let's find out what kind of dishes you can cook in the microwave:

  1. Porcelain cups and plates are quite suitable for use in microwave ovens. The only exception is dishes with metal spraying, for example, with gold-plated ornaments. The presence of metals in the microwave oven, even in this form, can cause arcing and even an explosion.
  2. Glassware is also suitable for microwave. Moreover, it is glass that passes microwaves better than other materials, which means that your dishes will warm up faster and more efficiently. Ideally, the glass should be hardened, or it can be glass ceramics. But the crystal dishes in the microwave oven should not be placed.
  3. Ceramics, clay, faience can be used in a microwave oven only with the condition that the utensils made of these materials are completely covered with glaze on top. On such plates and cups should not be cracks, chips.
  4. It is interesting that even plastic dishes can be put in the oven. But this plastic should be heat-resistant, withstanding heat up to 140 ° C. As a rule, there is a corresponding sign on the microwave cookware.
  5. Suitable for a microwave oven and utensils made of special cardboard with heat-resistant coating , parchment (oiled paper), frying hose and special foil for microwave . Disposable aluminum forms can be used, but with caveats: only with the lid removed, and dispose of such dishes away from the internal walls of the oven.