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When cooking with infrared, the food heats up quickly, allowing you to save 85% of the energy used by conventional ovens. A remarkable decrease in your electric bill will be noticed immediately. The foods are cooked more evenly inside and out while retaining food s natural flavors and juices. There is no need for you to add fats and extra seasoning to enhance the taste as food s natural flavors are not wasted. Since there is no need for fats, cooking convection oven promotes healthy cooking. In addition, you can save time with it both in cooking and food preparation. Defrosting is no longer a necessity.Infrared oven cooking supports the healthy cooking campaign as there is no need for you to add cooking oils, seasonings, or artificial flavors to improve the taste of the cooking food. This oven has varying cooking temperatures, which you can change to estimate cooking time and the heat needed. Compared to standard oven, foods are cooked 50% faster. In addition, IR ovens are compact in size and light weight. Despite its small size it can still cook a big chicken or a small turkey. Its small size also allows it to be moved or taken on cooking trips. Many people use it for camping, picnics, and other outings. They can cook foods from cooking ware that has a flat surface or three-dimensional shapes. There is no need to install a ventilation system in the kitchen because IR ovens do not give off smoke during cooking. You can even rotate the cooking pot or bowl to have an even exposure of food to radiation. The oven too can be zoned according to heating rates, which makes the cooking of internal regions with precision. If you worry about the use of infrared, your anxiety is baseless. Compared with ultraviolet radiation or microwave radiation, infrared oven cooking does not pose immediate threats. However, for precautionary measures, you are advised to use reflectors and shields to improve the efficiency of the oven. It is also advised not to have prolonged viewing of high intensity infrared emitters at 15 distance.You do not experience difficulties in cleaning up the infrared oven. Its laxan dome is durable and dishwasher-safe. When you bake with it, it does not produce baked-on and caked-on messes. Its touch pad cooking control is easy to understand and use. It is easy to clean and maintain an infrared oven. Besides regular cleaning of reflectors, you may also examine the emitters and replace the ones that have failed to function. The oven does not rust even though it at time is exposed to water. Using an oven of this type will give you increased health benefits and reduced energy costs. When light waves hit the foods the food molecules begin to vibrate and heat up. According to Prevention, the infrared technology used in microwaves does not have cancer threats, because they do not have sufficient power to damage your DNA.
This Article Has Been Published on Sun, 21 Feb 2010 and Read 426 Times