Red Flags/Indicators- Microwave Heating

If you read it.... it says "may"....

Obviously if you have measured before heating it's not an issue.

Weighing is not the most accurate. Your sleeve does not weigh. Your sleeve was sized by volume.

Sorry you didn't get it....

frisco

I'm sorry you don't get the concept of weighing your food, but instead relied on your non scientific way of reheating food as your basis of measurement. I guess people should start throwing away their digital scales.

I weigh meat/protein and measure everything else by volume.

Thanks for twisting it around !

frisco

I haven't twisted anything around, perhaps you should re read your original post & look at it from a different perspective. 

You post it as red flag/indicator, you rely on heat up times from your microwave as an indicator that there's too much on your plate. You post this as a tool for your toolbox. You also mention you're a vet.

No where in your original post do you mention what kinds of foods that you're reheating, you're basing it off your experience of whatever foods you've weighed/eaten. I have no idea what you're eating, what you've weighed etc. Hence my reply of using digital scales & weighing your food & what you eat, hence the mashed potatoes that reheat rather quickly in a microwave reply.

Look at what your posting & see it from a point of view other than your own.

This is lifted from the original post:

Yes, it is best to portion and measure/weigh out your food before heating and log.

This is just another indicator and tool for the toolbox !

I believe Frisco was just giving an anecdotal point of view he's garnered from his experience.

I also assume that Frisco thinks we know what he has measured & what he has eaten. If he read my original reply of weighing your food & that mashed potatoes heats up rather quickly in a microwave he'd understand where I was coming from rather than get into a tit for tat reply.

You got me..... I haven't re-heated mashed potatoes in 5.5 years

Sorry for the tit for tat..... but please, if you don't agree or can't understand the intention of my message, I'm totally fine with it. Just trying to share another observation.

frisco

It's cool, I just wanted you to be aware someone might think that re heating anything in the microwave in the time allotted might think that's more ok than what it is they're eating. Just another point of view is all.

So...wait... let me get this straight. I have to make EVERYTHING fresh right at that very moment. I can't make a pot of beans and puree them and stick them in the freeze in little personal sized cups and then pull them out and microwave them??

Because that's what I am taking at what he is talking about. 

He's saying that if I am reheating something that takes over a certain amount of time then that amount is more than likely too big. 

You are fine just do what your plan says and don't worry about what he said.