Do's and Don'ts while using Microwave Oven

Things to be noted while using Microwave Oven:

1. Keep oven clean always. Clean as soon as if any food particle or water or oil split inside oven.
2. Strictly use utensils, which are specially designed to cook in oven.
3. Always use gloves to handle utensils while cook.
4. Always keep Microwave oven 10 cm away from the wall, so that hot air from oven circlates easily.
5. If food starts to burn inside oven while cooking, immediately switch off and unplug the oven. Don't open oven immediately.
6. Can cook refrigerated food items, immediately after you take out of fridge.
7. In oven, cooking time may depend on the power it uses. It depends on quantity of Watt in oven we purchase.
8. Cooking time also differs on the nature of food we cook.
9. Coated vessels should be strictly avoided.
10. Food will get completely cooked, only when you leave if for standing time. That is, even after cooking time over, keep the food in oven for one or two minutes, to get completely cooked.
11. Can use glass, porcelain and mud vessels to cook.
12. Paper plates can be used, only to heat food (few seconds).
13. To make your food cook evenly, often stir the food with respect to the cooking time.
14.  While cooking, we can use lid of the vessel or without lid or half open, depends on the nature of food and recipe.
15. It’s good to cook soup, vegetables with minimum quantity of water because; the process of vaporization is low in oven. Life cycle of oven will increase when such minor tips are followed.
16. While cooking, food like Cheese, custard milk, egg and cream, within few minutes it will get spoilt or become harder. So be precise in cooking time, for such foods.
17. While baking cake, biscuits like items, it is necessary to pre heat oven. For Grill, it’s not necessary.
18. No need to pre heat oven, for normal food, except baking products.
19. Avoid boiling eggs with shell. Eggs will get burst.
20. To cook vegetables soon, cut it like long thin stripes. Approximately, two spoon of water is enough to cook vegetables.
21. Don’t add salt while cooking vegetables. It may get dry and stiff. Add salt at the end of cooking vegetables.