The website address for this blog relates to a story about my first microwave oven, an Amana RadarRange. My husband gave me this ginormous appliance for Valentine's Day one year. It came with a special crockery cooking pot called a Country Cooker and a cookbook which had recipes for its use with my new microwave. It was to have the effect of slow cooker but at a fraction of the time. We all loved pot roast, so I put my roast in the Country Cooker, put the Cooker into my humongous microwave and set the timer for 90 minutes as per the recipe.
The family went out to buy paint I remember. Upon our return, as we walked through the front door, we became aware of a horrible stench. "Oh, no!" thought I, "I've burned the roast!" So I dashed into the kitchen and threw open the RadarRange. The smell was definitely coming from the Country Cooker. I removed the lid to the cooker and saw something I will never forget. There was only a thin dark ring around the inside of the pot. No burned meat! No charred bones! Nothing! Only that shadow.
Upon rechecking the recipe, I saw that the meat was supposed to have been cooked on Low instead of HIGH for 90 minutes. This fact explains how things went wrong, but it does not explain everything.
It does not explain the total loss of the roast. Didn't I learn in high school physics that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. So where did my roast go? Was it not vaporized? Is it still lingering in the walls of that house only wating for the conditions to be right to reappear ? I think the new residents of the house are going to be in for a big surprise one day when my roast condenses in their fancy new kitchen.
-- Judy
-- Judy
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