/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11201920
Bro why don't you just use a glass bowl. Wtf is wrong with these people. I use glass for all my cooking needs in the microwave.

>>11201933
Ye
What is that fucking contraption

>>11201920
>What do?
Jesus fuck. Put soup in a microwave-safe container. Stop and stir the soup every once in a while you fucking retard. Don't just stick it in there, turn the oven on, and leave it.

>>11201933
Rule #2, anon. People are stupid. They think that life is impossible without specialist products for every menial task. That's probably because their parents didn't teach them useful skills as a child.

>>11201933
>>11201958
>>11201965
Ya'll are being rude. I've used other methods, like the glass bowl, and the shit has exploded in the microwave before. I've tried to do the stop and stir, but the nigger is still cold after five minutes of that shit. I'm trying to find out how to heat it up without it exploding on me or coming out cold.

>>11202741
>the shit has exploded in the microwave before

you weren't stirring often enough. IF you're too lazy to do that then run your microwave for a longer time at a lower heat setting. Lower settings allow the heat to naturally spread through the food.

Also, does your microwave have a carousel in it? If not you need to stir extra-often.

>>11202756
>run your microwave for a longer time at a lower heat setting.

THIS

One microwave tip I use every time is put it at double the time at 50% power. It's more even and not exploded.

>this fucking thread
Someone needs to be walked through how to microwave a bowl of soup.

>>11202741
You're doing something wrong asshole no one else has this problem

>>11202989
What I mean is, put a fucking plastic Tupperware lid or a plate or Saran wrap over the fucking thing and nuke the shit out of it. Stir when done.

>used the non-microwavable bowl again
>burn hands

>>11202768
>>11202778
>>11202756
These sound like smart options, will definitely try tonight and report back. I don't know why, but my microwave has a tendency to superheat water.

>tfw don't use glass in it anymore because of hot water exploding so fast it splashes the ceiling

Thanks m8s.

>>11202741
At that point it would be faster and less work to heat it on the stove.

>>11203229
I'm in a dorm. I don't have access to a stove. Believe me, I wish I did.

>>11203784
buy one of those induction hotplates, they're pretty cheap and should be more than sufficient

How long should I leave the soup in before I stir it. Also, do I have to press stop, or can I just open the door?

>>11203857
eat a bullet

>>11203897
all ya'll got some sort of attitude problem when i ask a question baka

>>11203831
I can't, those are banned items, as are toasters. Apparently, in the past at my campus, two dorms have been burned down with both of those items. And yes, our RAs check our rooms, it makes hiding shit a bitch.

>>11203857
Please no bully. Once you've ever superheated water in a microwave, you get nervous about what they're capable of.

>>11203935
>toasters are banned
>two dorms were burnt down
How? Are college kids this fucking stupid?

Did they try to make a grilled cheese by buttering the bread, putting cheese on it, setting the toaster on its side, and then activating it?

>>11203941
I'm not sure how it happened, but yeah, the fire alarm goes off quite often around here because dumb college students put in their Easy Mac or ramen without water and let it catch fire. They'd probably ban microwaves too if they could get away with it. Most of these kids have never had to touch a pan in their life, so they're utterly clueless.

As for me, I'm not, I'm quite careful and love to cook. I miss having a kitchen, the "microwave everything" life is not for me. I wouldn't be asking for advice unless I haven't already explored alternative routes. I will try the lower setting for a longer time, though, that might fix my problem. Again, I'm a stove and oven person, not a microwave person.

>>11203935
I refuse to believe they dig through all your stuff and everyone is ok with that
these things are probably smaller than most of your textbooks

>>11203971
You sign away your rights to privacy at a dorm. Anyone can search you for any reason. I've seen my fair share of kids being arrested because someone tipped off the cops and they just burst into your room and search for hours. Would I get arrested for it? No, probably just fined. But a university fine is typically in the $100-$200 range, and I'm not keen on keeping an item that'll get me in trouble in my dorm.

This thread, people here really can't microwave a bowl of fucking soup.

>>11203784
when i was in a dorm, there was a kitchen down next to the lobby with a stove
now that i'm thinking about it, that was just the girl's dorm
guys had a tv, no kitchen

>>11203969
the wattage of your microwave matters as well. I have a 600W microwave right now, and almost everything I reheat is 7 minutes at 70% power.

1 watt is 1 joule per second. this means my microwave puts out (approximately) 600 joules per second. keep that in mind and check your microwave, because that changes what follows. also remember that the loss or gain of heat (energy, measured in joules) in an object can be calculated as: mass of object × change in temperature × specific heat capacity of material.

let's assume that most food is made up of water in some way, and that microwaves act by exciting those water molecules by shooting radiation at a frequency specifically adjusted to match that of the natural vibratory frequency of water molecules. I don't know if that's how it really works but it's close enough.

the specific heat of water is 4.186 joules per gram (source: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/heat-capacity.html).). side note: if you have ever seen "kcals" thrown around and weren't sure what it really means, note that 1 kcal = 4186 joules. another word for kcal is kilocalorie, which means 1000 small calories and also means the same as Cal, a large or "food" calorie as represented on nutrition labels. 1 small calorie would then be equal to the specific heat of water. not really important here, but gives more context to why it all matters!

so if I have 2 cups of soup, that is 16 fluid ounces, or ~473 milliliters -- 1 mL = 1g of water as defined, so I have 473g of soup. assuming the soup is just above ideal refrigerator temperature (which is 1.6° C, or 35° F), because I took it out a few seconds ago and it's already warming to room temperature, call it warmed up to 2 degrees. I want to heat it to just below boiling, for a hot soup. 99° C should be a good target, so that makes 97° of heat difference.

>>11201920
>>11203969
>>11204999

what I want to know is how many joules do I need, for how many seconds, to heat up my soup? the equation above helps: 473g (mass of object) × 97° (change in temperature) × 4.184 (specific heat capacity as joules/gram) = number of joules needed to make this happen. I need 191,966.104 joules.

if I know my microwave's power (600 joules per second), I can find out the ideal time to make the soup perfect. 191,966.104 / 600 = ~320 seconds (rounded up 1/10th of a second). That's 5 minutes and 20 seconds at full power (10, or 100%). since you don't want superheating like you mentioned, you want to go a bit slower to let the heat disperse more evenly, especially since microwaves are never 100% accurate and have "warm" spots! I like to use 70% power level (7 on my model) as I mentioned. 191,966.104 / (600 × .7) = ~457 seconds, or 7 minutes and 37 seconds at 70% power.

tl;dr: check ur wattage and learn math, microwaves become useful again

>>11204999
>>11205004
I think this might be my overall issue then, as my microwave is well over 1000 watts. I must be fucking killing the water in the soup at that power setting, but also very unevenly, even if I only give it 30 seconds in the microwave before trying to stir. That's why it comes out ice cold but still is ready to explode upon moving it.

I'm so used to electric stoves, I've never even considered the infrastructure of my own particular microwave being the issue. Thanks based frogposter.