Name: 不要再說微波爐難用了！跟著專家學習微波爐的使用秘訣，讓你煮菜可以事半功倍！(Your Microwave's Most Underrated Button | Techniquely with Lan Lam)
Uploaded: 2023-11-18T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 10 min 46 s

Some folks think they're unsafe; others associate them with convenience foods and laziness.

有些人認為它們不安全，其他人則把它們與方便食品和懶惰聯繫在一起。

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And finally, there are some folks who just think they're unnecessary.

最後，有些人認為他們沒有必要。

My team and I are here to tell you, microwaves are great.

我和我的團隊要告訴大家，微波爐是個好東西。

Now, you can't believe the infomercials because this, it can't do everything, but it can do a whole lot more than reheating or defrosting.

現在你不能再相信廣告了，因為這不可能面面俱到，但它能做的遠不止加熱或解凍。

When I develop recipes, there are so many times where I call for a microwave, because it's so good at heating small amounts of food.

當我制定食譜時，很多時候，我都需要微波爐，因為它非常適合加熱少量食物。

Who wants to dig out a pot to bring a quarter cup of water to a boil or turn on the oven to toast a tablespoon of nuts?

誰會想要挖出一個鍋子來將四分之一杯水煮沸或打開烤箱來烤一湯匙堅果？

There are right ways and wrong ways to use a microwave and in order to make the most of this appliance, we really need to understand how they work.

使用微波爐有正確的方法和錯誤的方法，為了充分利用這種設備，我們確實需要了解它們的工作原理。

Be sure to hit that like button and let's dive in.

請務必按讚這部影片，接著讓我們一起深入瞭解。

Microwave ovens contain a device called a magnetron and that magnetron, it generates microwaves.

微波爐包含一個稱為磁控管的裝置，磁控管會產生微波。

Those are the things that are heating up your food.

就是這些東西在加熱你的食物。

Microwaves are a part of the electromagnetic spectrum and when you think about that spectrum, you should know it has two sides.

微波是電磁波譜的一部分，當你想到這個光譜時 你應該知道它有兩面性。

There's a safe side, and then there's like the scary side.

有安全的一面，也有可怕的一面。

On that safe side, you're gonna find things like visible light, radio waves and microwaves.

在安全方面，你會發現一些像可見光、無線電波和微波等東西。

Manufacturers have designed these to keep the microwaves on the inside.

製造商設計這些設備的目的是讓微波在裡面。

Why would you want them on the inside if they're safe?

如果他們安全的話你為什麼要把他們留在裡面？

You want those microwaves heating up the food that's inside the cavity, not whatever's out here.

你希望這些微波爐加熱內部的食物，而不是外面的任何食物。

Now microwaves can pass through glass, and so in order to allow you to see what's going on in the oven, they will put a mesh on that door. That mesh has holes that are small enough that the microwaves just can't pass through.

微波可以穿過玻璃，以便讓你看到烤箱中的情況，他們會在門上裝上網罩，這種網眼的孔足夠小，微波根本無法通過。

Obviously, you can't see microwaves but you can hear when a magnetron is generating them.

顯然，你看不到微波，但你可以聽到磁控管產生微波的聲音。

Magnetrons don't generate microwaves of various power levels.

磁控管不會產生各種功率等級的微波。

So when you go to adjust the power level of your microwave what you're doing is telling it how long to be on and how long to be off.

因此，當你調整微波爐的功率等級時，你所做的就是告訴它打開多長時間和關閉多長時間。

Microwaves only act on the surface of the food.

Their heating may be the top quarter half inch of the food.

它們的加熱部位可能是食物的上半部分。

When you run a microwave at full power, you're bombarding the surface of your food with heat.

當你以全功率運行微波爐時，熱量會轟擊食物表面。

By reducing the power level, you're giving it a little break.

透過降低功率，你可以讓它稍微休息一下。

During that break, heat in the surface, it'll have time to move towards the center.

在此期間，表面受熱，它將有時間向中心移動。

這樣的結果是食物受熱更加均勻。

I'm gonna demonstrate how useful that power button is with this stick of butter.

我將用這塊奶油展示電源按鈕有多有用。

My goal is just to soften it, not to melt it.

我的目標只是軟化它，而不是融化它。

I am gonna microwave this for 45 seconds at 50% power.

我準備用微波爐以 50% 的功率加熱 45 秒。

And if you're listening carefully, you'll hear that magnetron flip off right around 30 seconds and it'll come back on right around 11 seconds.

如果你仔細聆聽，你會聽到磁控管在 30 秒左右關閉，並在 11 秒左右重新開啟。

這樣的軟化效果很好，也很均勻。

If I had microwaved this at full power I would get hotspots where the butter is fully melted and cool spots where it's pretty solid.

如果我用微波爐以全功率加熱，會出現黃油完全融化的熱點和相對較硬的地方。

Reducing the power level is one way to help food heat more evenly.

降低功率等級是幫助食物更均勻加熱的一種方法。

Another way is to just move that food around.

Annie Potatoes, best baked sweet potatoes use this method really effectively.

安妮烤馬鈴薯使用這種方法烤紅薯效果非常好。

It would normally take about three hours to get the level of sweetness that she achieves in an hour and a half and it all starts in the microwave.

通常需要約三小時才能在一個半小時內達到她所實現的甜度，而這一切都始於微波爐。

She puts her sweet potatoes in there and they microwave for six to nine minutes.

她把她的地瓜放進微波爐，微波加熱六至九分鐘。

Every three minutes they get flipped and that helps them heat up to 200 degrees really evenly.

每三分鐘翻動一次，這有助於它們均勻地升溫到攝氏200度。

They'll spend an hour in a 425 degree oven before they come out.

他們會在 425 度的烤箱裡待一個小時才會出來。

We slit 'em open, give 'em a quick squeeze and garnish.

我們將它們切開，快速擠壓並裝飾。

If your microwaves are only penetrating a quarter of an inch and your food is only a quarter of an inch thick there's no center that's not being heated.

如果你的微波爐只能穿透四分之一英寸，而你的食物只有四分之一英寸厚，那麼所有中心都會加熱。

These dense vegetables can take a while to cook, but when you microwave them, after cutting them into quarter inch pieces, they cook through quickly and evenly.

這些濃稠的蔬菜可能需要一段時間才能煮熟，但是當你用微波爐加熱它們時，將它們切成四分之一英寸的塊後，它們會快速均勻地煮熟。

So we've established that microwaves are acting on the surface of the food.

所以我們已經確定微波作用於食物的表面。

But what's happening at a molecular level?

但在分子層面上發生了什麼事？

Unlike you're your oven which heats whatever you put inside, microwaves, they only heat certain components of food.

不像你的烤箱它可以加熱你放在裡面的任何東西，微波爐它們只加熱食物的某些成分。

Specifically, we're talking about the water and to a lesser extent, oils, sugars and fats.

具體來說，我們說的是水其次是油、糖和脂肪。

Microwaves will cause those molecules to vibrate and that vibration, it translates to heat.

微波會引起這些分子振動這，種振動會轉化為熱量。

Molecules that don't vibrate, they can't be heated.

Well, when you take water and you freeze it, in order to get solid blocks of ice, those water molecules, they get locked into place and once they are locked into place, microwaves can't interact with them.

當你把水冷凍起來時為了得到堅固的冰塊，這些水分子 它們會被鎖定，一旦被鎖住，微波無法與它們發生作用。

I've put a hole in the top and I'll put this whole thing in the microwave.

我在頂部開了個洞，然後我就把整個東西放進微波爐裡。

After that, I'll use this pipette to fill that hole with this blue water.

之後，我將用這個移液管用藍色的水填滿那個洞。

Then we'll turn this microwave on and let it run for about two minutes.

然後打開微波爐並讓其運作約兩分鐘。

What we wanna see is how the microwaves interact with ice and water.

我們想看到的是微波如何與冰和水相互作用。

What happened here, besides me spilling some of the water onto the plate, you can see that the ice block, it's still pretty much the same.

這裡發生了什麼，除了我把一些水灑到盤子上之外，你可以看到冰塊，還是差不多的。

What has changed is the water in our little hole

it got hotter and it melted the ice around it.

溫度升高，把周圍的冰融化了。

This is what happens when you try to microwave frozen food at full power.

當您嘗試用微波爐全功率加熱冷凍食品時就會發生這種情況。

What little bit of water is there it'll heat up and it'll melt the surrounding ice.

僅有的一點水它會升溫，融化周圍的冰層。

But everything else where there is no water nothing happens.

但其他沒有水的地方什麼也沒發生。

Now, you've probably experienced this, if you've tried to reheat frozen super stock, some parts boiling hot, other parts ice cold.

現在，如果你嘗試重新加熱冷凍的超級原料，某些部分滾燙，其他部分冰冷，您可能已經經歷過這種情況。

I have some frozen creamy white bean soup here.

我這裡有一些冷凍的奶油白豆湯。

It's one of my favorite Cook's Illustrated soups, and I'm gonna microwave it at 50% power for eight minutes.

這是我最喜歡的《Cook's Illustrated》湯之一，我要用微波爐以 50% 的功率加熱八分鐘。

Nice and creamy, hot all the way through. I did it.

口感細膩，熱氣騰騰。我做到了。

Microwaves are for more than just defrosting and reheating.

微波爐的作用不僅僅是解凍和加熱。

In fact, I can use this microwave to take this soup to the next level.

事實上，我可以用這個微波爐來把這個湯弄的更上一層樓。

One thing that distinguishes restaurant dishes from so much home cooking is the garnishes.

餐廳菜餚與許多家庭烹飪的區別之一是裝飾配菜。

They can add pops of color, flavor, texture to the simplest of dishes.

它們可以增添色彩、風味和質感到最簡單的菜餚。

When I was a restaurant cook, I would make garnishes by the bucket full and some of my favorites:

當我是餐廳廚師時，我會用裝滿桶子的東西來製作裝飾配菜和一些我最喜歡的東西：

They were fried, fried shallot, fried ginger, fried garlic, fried leeks. They were delicious.

都是炸的，炸蔥，炸薑，炸蒜，炸韭菜。 它們很好吃。

Now, when I want them at home, I use my microwave.

現在，我在家想吃的時候，就用微波爐。

I can make a reasonable amount, and when I'm done, I don't have a gallon of oil that I have to deal with.

我可以製作合理的數量，完成後，我也不用處理一加侖的油。

To garnish this soup, I'm gonna make microwave fried capers.

為了裝飾這道湯，我要做微波爐炸刺山柑。

I've got a third of a cup of extra virgin olive oil here and to that I'm adding some capers.

我這裡有三分之一杯特級初榨橄欖油，我還要加一些酸豆。

This is a quarter cup of capers that have been rinsed and padded dry.

這是四分之一杯已沖洗並墊乾的刺山柑。

Just gonna give this a quick shake to make sure they're submerged.

快速搖一搖以確保它們被淹沒。

And I'm gonna microwave for five minutes.

I'll stop halfway through to give them a stir.

我會中途停下來給它們攪拌一下。

When you're microwaving a liquid, you don't need to reduce the power because heat transfers through liquids much more efficiently than it does through solids.

用微波爐加熱液體時，你不需要降低功率，因為比起固體，熱量通過液體傳遞的效率更高。

不管是什麼，你的微波爐在煎炸。

When you're frying, you're turning the water that's in the food into steam, and that can create a lot of bubbling and boiling, and you don't want that bubbling and boiling to overflow your bowl.

在煎炸時，你要把水中的將食物中的熱量轉化為蒸汽，就會產生大量的冒泡和沸騰，而你不想那冒泡和沸騰會溢出你的碗。

So I'm looking for these to darken in color and for them to shrink slightly.

所以我想讓這些顏色變深顏色，並略微收縮。