Microwaves bring faster food
Despite all the publicity, cooking food by microwaves has not found very wide acceptance; but now the United States army is testing a microwave bakery that can provide fresh bread each day for 5000 men, and a microwave kitchen that can turn out 200 meals an hour. These new kitchens and bakeries will be able to move around with the troops – the first time company kitchens have been able to do so since the American Civil War.
Both the kitchen and the bakery use four 1.5-kilowatt magnetrons, operating on a frequency of 2450 megahertz. Cooking is…
