Microwaves
Charlotte and Amit dive into the story of microwaves and ask if they have enough power for a comeback in our cooking.
Charlotte and Amit dive into the story of microwaves and ask if they have enough power for a comeback.
Around nine out of ten of us have a microwave in the UK, making it a trendy gadget. But most of us use it for reheating food or zapping a microwave meal. Amit Katwala and Charlotte Stavrou find out if we are missing a trick by not incorporating microwaves further into our cooking and delve into whether these gadgets can help us during the cost of living crisis.
We meet MasterChef winner Tim Anderson who explains why heβs a self-described βmicrowave evangelistβ as he creates an emergency cookie for us in the studio. Alan Kelly, a professor in Food Science at University College Cork, tells us about the inner workings of microwaves and we trace the device's history, evolving from radar technology used in the Second World War.
Food writer Bee Wilson, author of the new book The Secret of Cooking, charts how her motherβs attitudes to microwaves changed through the years while Louis Platman, a curator at the Museum of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, tells us when microwaves began to appear in our homes.
Producer: Emily Uchida Finch
A Whistledown production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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- Thu 21 Sep 2023 12:32ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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