The question then: Does the plastic heat more than the food? ..probably not.
In order to do so, the plastic would have to absorb microwaves better than the water in food. If it does, the plastic would probably melt while the food was still cool. If it doesn't, the temperature of the food would heat up the plastic but won't likely exceed 212 deg F so long as you're not making charcoal briquettes out of your chicken. The temperature to pop popcorn exceeds 212 deg because the kernal is sealed and acts like a pressure cooker, raising the boiling point of water. At 15 PSI over atmospheric water boils at around 350 Deg F. Plastic microwave corn poppers abound. [Not made of Saran wrap, of course] Simple experiment: Toss a wad of Saran wrap in the microwave. [Probably not the best thing to do to a microwave, but 'science' makes it an acceptable risk.] I just did. It didn't get beyond barely detectably warm...and my fingers are cold this morning. One minute in the nuker that would have boiled an equal volume of water raised the temp only a few degrees. Conclusion: Saran wrap doesn't absorb microwaves worth a hoot...even less than glass. I'll buy the Snopes story. Ode At 05:04 PM 10/16/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >I'm not sure it isn't true. Plastics release their chemicals when >heated. So my guess is it is true, but has to do with the heat the >plastic is subjected to while foods are microwaved. Which also accounts >for the warning about fatty foods......heating greasy/oily foods in >plastic results in melted pits in the plastic. When plastic melts it >off-gasses. Nothing to do with the microwaves directly, but with the >heat. Same thing would happen if you heated a tupperware container on an >electric or gas burner, or tossed one into a fire. > >So on this one, I don't think I trust Snopes at all. >sol > >Connie Howard wrote: > >> >> >> Sorry but not true. For the truth go to: (this came to me from a >> reply on this email I forwarded) I went to snopes.com and still came >> away thinking there is some merit to the warning; How do you read it? >> connie >> >> http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/dioxins.htm or go to: >> http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm >> > > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com >OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1 - Release Date: 10/15/2005
