If you went to a fancy restaurant and were told that your entire meal was cooked inside a microwave you would probalby ask to speak to the manager or just get right up and leave. It’s no secret that cooking with a microwave isn’t exactly the best way to bring out the taste in your food but is more of a way to cook food quicker at the sacrifice of the overall taste. So just like a microwave cooks faster and takes away the taste, should we epxect to see the same thing happen when cooking food on an infrared grill? Will it take away the taste along with the time that it removes from the cooking?
This is a reasonable question but first we need to understand why food doesn’t taste as good in a microwave. When you cook with microwaves you’re not able to get the heat evenly distributed. This is why you will often find rotating trays inside of microwaves, they help to keept he food cooked evenly. Often with microwaves you need to heat up your food, then poke around on it, find the cold spot and heat it up some more. The microwaves simply can’t be targeted evenly. Also, because you’re not cooking with a flame you won’t get that the crisp edged that you would normally get if cooking in an oven or an open flame.
With infrared grilling the heat is evenly distributed all over the steak and the food that you’re grilling, every time. So when you cook a steak and poke around on it, you will find that it is done all the way through instead of biting into one part that will scald your mouth and another part that will freeze your brain. Cooking with infrared is faster than grilling so the food has less time to lose its flavor when it drips out. If you’ve ever seen the bottom of traditional grills you know that quite a bit of the steak juice will flow out of the food which means less taste. If you cook food in half the time then you can expect to lose only half of the taste.
Overall you really can’t compare an infrared grill to a microwave oven because they’re entirely different. Infrared grills actually improve the overall taste of the food you’re eating along with saving you time.
