Microwave and Unconventional Appliance Cooking

Gathers the cooking methods that rely on an unusual appliance or heating principle rather than a traditional flame, oven or pot. Microwave cooking heats food by making its polar molecules rotate, which produces heat directly inside the food, the anti-griddle is a modernist kitchen appliance whose chilled metal top flash freezes or semi-freezes the foods placed on it, and dishwasher salmon wraps seasoned salmon in aluminum foil and cooks it through a full wash cycle. A technique belongs here when its own cited article describes cooking or chilling food with a machine that was not made for ordinary cooking. It excludes sous vide and slow cooking, which have their own group.