Microwave oven types and other important things to know

The microwave oven has revolutionized modern-day kitchens. It is designed to cook food quickly and reheat food without overcooking the food. It makes time-consuming tasks like reheating and cooking convenient. If you are planning to buy a microwave oven online, here are the things that you should know:

Types of the microwave oven: When it comes to using a microwave oven, the most important thing you need to know is which type of appliance you have. A solo microwave oven is ideal for reheating mainly. You can use them to make simple recipes. A microwave oven with grill mode lets you grill which means you can grill tikkas and kebabs in it. A microwave oven with convection mode not only lets you reheat food but you can also grill, bake and roast. It comes with additional accessories that take your cooking experience several notches higher.

To explore our different types of microwave ovens, click here. Kutchina microwave ovens come with convection, grill, and combo modes.

1. You can cook from scratch: Often people use microwave ovens for reheating leftovers. You can cook a variety of things in your microwave oven. Rice, dal, pasta, pizza, and cake are some of the few food items that you can make in the microwave ovens without any hassles

2. Microwave ovens make cooking easy: Microwave ovens come with a pre-programmed cooking menu. Place the food inside and choose the menu and the appliance will adjust the heat and temperature on its own. Kutchina microwave ovens come with up to 9 preset auto cooking menus — you can make a wide range of Indian, European and famous dishes from other parts of the world without manually selecting the settings.

3. You can preheat the microwave: Preheating the oven is important when you are baking using baking powder and baking soda. These items react to heat, giving you fluffier and soft cakes and muffins. Solo microwave ovens cannot be preheated, you can definitely preheat microwave ovens with convection mode.

4. There is a lot you can do with a microwave oven other than reheating: You can perfectly steam veggies in your microwave oven. You can steam small servings of vegetables like broccoli, carrots and asparagus by wrapping them in several layers of damp paper towels and heat them in the microwave. You can also roast dry fruits in microwave ovens. Not just that you can disinfect microwave-safe kitchen items such as chopping boards. Just soak cutting boards in lemon juice and heat them in a microwave for a minute. Drying fresh herbs is easy using a microwave oven. Put four or five branches of herbs like curry leaves or thyme between two dry paper towels, then microwave them for 2 to 3 minutes.