Container for a microwave oven should not be composed of metals, do not conduct the electric current to be heat resistant and transparent to microwaves.

To use dishes in the microwave there is a test: take an ordinary glass without a pattern, it filled with water. The glass is placed in the test dish, and she, in turn, in the microwave. Microwave turns on full power for 1 minute. When removing all the utensils, the water in the glass should be hot and the dishes, which was glass, heat should not. Hot dishes the microwave.

What cookware is suitable for microwave oven

Ceramics

On ceramic cookware should not be drawings. You need to consider that ceramics in the microwave gets very hot, and therefore need to remove it, protecting hand oven MITT.

Porcelain

Porcelain also should not be drawing and utensils for warming up should be open and without bumpers.

Plastic

For microwave use heat-resistant plastic containers, on their cover, there is a corresponding icon. Unlike porcelain, ceramics and glass, plastics can be put in the microwave straight from the freezer. Disposable dishes to use in the microwave not.

Glass

Glassware will be suitable only for cooking mode microwave reheating and defrosting. For other modes, use heat-resistant dishes for the oven. In regular glasses and cans can be heated fluid. Drawings on the glass should be absent. Thin-walled crockery for microwave not suitable, the glass can burst with hot liquid.

Paper

Suitable penoplastovyj trays and cups, parchment paper and a cardboard box. Paper is not suitable for oil and fatty foods. Wax coated paper plates and cups, oiled paper is prohibited for use in a microwave oven.

Fabric

For heating and baking in the microwave will only fit cotton and linen.

Polyethylene

Before use in the microwave plastic bags or cling film pierced in several places.

Unsuitable for microwave cookware

Metal

Metal cookware is impervious to microwaves and elektroprovodka. In an aluminum pan to reheat semi-finished products.

Crystal

In the crystal structure of the metal is present, but because the dishes quickly warm up, and may explode from uneven heating.

Light glass

Utensils lightweight glass easy to distinguish by weight. It consists of a melamine - fusible material.