Phew...

Good job too! A wet frying pan would turn the bread soggy

 

Dripping, obviously!

 

You can't beat a fried slice with a fried egg on top and I'm just over 10 stone.

 

But where's the flavour in that?
No wonder your lot invented deep fried Mars if you can't make proper fried bread!

 

For years I thought that microwaving vegetables destroyed all the nutrients - it now turns out that nuking is the best way to cook veg.

You can't believe anything your told nowadays.

 

Many nutrients are tightly bound in tough fibrous material in veg. To the extent that eaten raw, a lot of the nutrients make it all the way through and out the other end.

Cooking by any method basically gives digestion a massive head start, breaking down chemical bonds and making nutrients more easily available to our digestive systems.

In fact, some scientists reckon it was the discovery of cooking that led to the massive population boom in early humans, because it meant they could get the same amount of energy from a massively reduced amount of food.

The whole anti cooking thing is yet more 1980s horse manure.

Of course certain cooking methods are better than others. It makes sense that microwaving is actually among the best. Anything that dries the veg will reduce vitamin c for example, which is water soluble so can be lost in steam, but is also sensitive to oxygen (so don't chop the veg fine then leave it on the chopping board for ages).

Microwaves agitate water molecules in the food, causing them to heat. Therefore nothing heats much beyond 100 degrees (it technically can, if the water can't escape, but that's when things explode in the microwave sometimes ).

A 1990s piece of manure relating to microwaves stems from the hair spray clad shell suit wearers who feared them because they didn't understand how they worked. They associated microwaves with nuclear radiation, hence 'nuking' as slang for cooking in the microwave oven. Nuclear radiation, which is itself an umbrella term for several different types of radiation, is subatomic in nature. That would not only be bad, but would be prohibitively expensive, and very tightly restricted in law. Microwaves are nothing more than boring plain old radio waves, which in turn are the same thing as heat and light but with a longer wavelength. In fact at a molecular level, microwaves are less destructive than heat and light, because the wavelength is too so long that most molecules are transparent to microwaves, so the energy passes straight through without even disturbing the molecules in any way. Only certain molecules are big enough to obstruct them, which is why you can put dry things in the microwave and nothing will happen, but put something in that contains water or fat and it heats up.