microwaved scrambled eggs

[dfauteux]

I usually eat 4 eggs (3 egg whites and 1 whole egg) 6 times a week in the morning before work, (along with a multigrain toast with banana on it).
Recently a friend told me to try microwaving the scrambled eggs. I put the eggs in the nuker and cooked them up, no milk or butter. They taste nearly the same. But now another friend told me that microwaving the eggs kills all the nutrients in them, is this true?

 

[Gordo]

Why would it.... microwaves just vibrate the hell out of the molecules causing the release of heat. Your nutrients are in tact.

I know when you boil veggies, you can boil the nutrients out of them and would techincally be lost in the water if you over-boil maybe that's what he was thinking.

 

[soxmuscle]

i am not 100% sure, but i can't imagine the eggs get "killed" by the microwave. are cooking processes that different?

 

[dfauteux]

I am not sure that is why I asked, I know my wife says that she read that if you microwave breast milk to heat it up it kills the nutrients in it. No idea if that is true either.

 

[Vieope]

I really doubt you gonna kill any nutrients. Microwaves just shake water molecules really bad, you might end up with some excited and pissed off carbs and proteins but they are not going anywhere.

 

[Gordo]

I am not sure that is why I asked, I know my wife says that she read that if you microwave breast milk to heat it up it kills the nutrients in it. No idea if that is true either.

I think he fear there is that it's really easy to overheat the breast milk and scald the baby....not so much to do with killing the quality of breastmilk but more of a safety issue.

However, my memory is foggy as it's been about 4 years since I had to be "up" on that stuff.

 

[Seanp156]

I always microwave my eggs + eggwhites.

 

[GFR]

microwave=lazy people and shit food

 

[Emma-Leigh]

I am not sure that is why I asked, I know my wife says that she read that if you microwave breast milk to heat it up it kills the nutrients in it. No idea if that is true either.

completely seperate issues...

Yes - heating protein will denature it and it will decrease some vitamins in some foods (eg: overcooking vegetables will decrease folate)... but whether or not this is an issue depends on what the protein/food is required for.

The nutrients and proteins in milk have biological FUNCTIONS for the baby - that is that they serve purposes other than providing protein (eg: they go on to act for immune purposes) and, as such, they are required undamaged.

Heating egg whites in the microwave is simply going to denature the protein - which, in this case, is pretty beneficial as it makes it more digestable for you (there are not a lot of other nutrients in egg whites anyway!) of the nutrients

 

[Stretch]

Some vitamins and nutrients are killed by heat, Vitamin C is the only one I can think of right now. Maybe that's what he's referring to.

 

[Vieope]

Some vitamins and nutrients are killed by heat, Vitamin C is the only one I can think of right now. Maybe that's what he's referring to.

Are they really alive? Are vitamins like cells that breath and multiply or are they like tiny quartz crystals that break under heat?

 

[Stretch]

Are they really alive? Are vitamins like cells that breath and multiply or are they like tiny quartz crystals that break under heat?

OK, maybe not killed. Destroyed.

 

[Vieope]

OK, maybe not killed. Destroyed.

Oh I was not arguing about your semantics problem.. I really wanna know, do you know?

Sure, heat can destroy or kill them but I thought it was only when it was exposed to very high heat, afterall, if it can survive body temperature and gastric acids, it is not that weak.

 

[myCATpowerlifts]

Oh I was not arguing about your semantics problem.. I really wanna know, do you know?

You never stop do you?

 

[Hlanderr]

im in college, and im not sure how this would work

im thinking about heating up eggs, but how would i do that? do you just throw the amount of liquid into a bowl, and it comes out like a bowl of icecream? haahaha

just curious how you guys make it, cause if i can do this then it would be a great breakfast/latenight meal for a college guy

 

[Seanp156]

For whole eggs, I'll throw a couple in a bowl, whip it with a spoon for a bit, then throw it in the microwave for a couple mins (probably varies per microwave, I have a POS old one).

 

[Stretch]

It's kind of hard to describe what the eggs look like after microwaving. They just fluff up like a normal scrambled egg does. Some Subway restaurants cook their eggs this way for their breakfast sandwiches.

 

[Hlanderr]

weird.... haha cool though... didnt know they were that easy to make

 

[maniclion]

Have you ever burned anything besides popcorn in the microwave? It's much easier to burn things on the stove or oven than it is in the nuker, I think extra hard eggs are going to have more nutrients than charred eggs wouldn't you think so?

 

[Robyne Arrow]

Overcooked protein is hard to digest. But I am a little biased anyway as I avoid microwaves at all costs.

The real question is how did you feel afterwards? It's all about trial and error.

 

[Nick+]

Take a hammer to your microwave oven and trash it!!!!!!!!

 

[njc]

Ive read of a study in Muscle and Fitness that suggested that zapping vegetables can destroy certain vitamins and phylochemicals

In fact that article hangs on the wall of my gymn