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Expanded polystyrene has an extremely low loss tangent and dielectric constant, so I fail to see how microwave heating causes more chemical leaching than hot wa
by madengr 3y ago
Expanded polystyrene has an extremely low loss tangent and dielectric constant, so I fail to see how microwave heating causes more chemical leaching than hot water.
- webmaven 3y agoHot water only reaches 100°C regardless, but any fats in the soup can reach higher temperatures in a microwave.
- trehalose 3y agoOne might think the water in the soup would moderate the temperature of the other components and keep them from reaching significantly above its own boiling point. Is this intuition not entirely accurate?
- qbrass 3y agoThe plastic above the water line has no heat sink and can melt if you cook the noodles too long in the microwave. That shouldn't happen when you boil water on the stove and dump it into the cup, even if you cook the water for far too long.