6 foods that you should never put in the microwave. Here is the list of some foods that for various reasons explained below, they should never be placed in the microwave. Let's start the list with:

I Broccoli

Several studies have shown that cooking our broccoli in the microwave can lose the 97% of its own antioxidants. Never do that, it wouldn't be worth it. On the other hand, when they are regularly boiled in water, they lose only 11% of antioxidants.

6 foods that you should never put in the microwave

White Rice

Did you know that the high temperatures of the microwave oven eliminate all the nutrients of the grain? It is always better to boil it in the pot with hot water.

Popcorn

Although there are many types of microwave popcorn on the market, it is recommended not to prepare them with our oven, microwaved popcorn contains a substance called PFOA, this acid disrupts the endocrine system and affects the production of sex hormones. Prepare them in the classic way, pan with lid.

Food NO MICROWAVE

The meat

The temperature of meat cooked in the microwave reaches very high temperatures, the meat will dry out and the protein value will degrade. Do not cook it in the microwave.

The oranges

Never heat or cook oranges in the microwave, all the properties of vitamin C would be canceled.

Melt the butter or margarine

Molecules in margarine like those in butter are crystallized and resistant to microwave radiation. Taking a longer time to dissolve it will reduce the protein value.

The milk

Never heat milk in the microwave, would be lost 40% nutrients and vitamin B12 would be completely eliminated.

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Job Requests For Pizza Makers. unbelievable, there is a huge demand for qualified pizza chefs. Every week I receive phone calls from all over the world requesting qualified people from our pizza school.

These calls come from all over the world, just today someone from Australia called me looking for a good pizza chef.

How to get in touch

The most important thing is to have attended one of our practical courses to become a pizza chef. The pizza chefs who successfully finish one of our practical courses, he has no difficulty in entering the world of work.

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Job Requests For Pizza Makers

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How To See All Our Video Pizza Recipes. As you know, our website contains more than 300 video recipes of various pizzas, all prepared by pizza chef students who attend our professional practical courses who come from all over the world.

Our videos are viewed countless times every day, the audience is very large, but most people use our channel youtube to get advice every time you have to prepare pizza at home.

Our youtube channel

just so, we have a youtube channel entirely dedicated to over 300 pizza recipes, convenient for those looking for suggestions, to get inspiration or to renew your menu.

My advice to never miss a video recipe again is to subscribe to our channel immediately, you will be immediately notified whenever we publish a new video of how to prepare the novelty pizza.

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The Cost of A Margherita Pizza. In this period we do nothing but discuss what the right price of a pizza is, specifically of one pizza margherita.

Let's try to clarify once and for all how much it costs a pizza chef to prepare a margherita pizza step by step.

Let's look at the price of the ingredients

Let's start from the base, the disc of pasta, which before the war in Ukraine had a cost of approx 10 cents, today at the date of writing this article the price of a ball for a pizza base has almost doubled, passing to about 20 cents.

Tomato pizza: About eighty grams of tomato go on a margherita pizza, the average price of tomato for pizza goes from 50 to 70 cents per kilo, so you spend on average for each pizza 10 the 20 euro cents each pizza.

The Cost of A Margherita Pizza

Extra virgin olive oil: with the current market price of extra virgin olive oil, that goes from 8 to 16 euro for each liter, it spends on average 20 euro cents for oil.

Let's now move on to the most expensive topping used in the preparation of pizza, that is the mozzarella fiordilatte. The price per kilo varies a lot depending on the place of origin, but to make an average price let's say that mozzarella is worth about 8 euro per kilo. On a pizza they are used 100 grams of mozzarella, so the total price is approx 80 cents.

Other miscellaneous expenses

Basil is missing, therefore we also consider the two basil leaves, But above all, there is no VAT, the cup, the electricity costs if you use the electric oven, or wood if a wood-burning oven is used, all these expenses are not easy to quantify, because they vary with the different amount of work for each pizzeria.

We know with certainty that the cost of ingredients for a margherita pizza can vary from one euro using medium products and could go up to 2 euros using top ingredients, but it is very difficult.

Conclusions

Given the sale price of pizza margherita that goes from 5 to 7 euro, I would say it is a fair price. I remind you that we are talking about a popular food.

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Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges. Lately, often going to dinner in a pizzeria, I notice that the bad habit of serving the pizza already cut into wedges at the table is gaining ground. In your opinion it is right or wrong?

But have you ever been served a plate of spaghetti already shredded?? I know this is going to seem really absurd to you, you can't serve a customer a plate of shredded spaghetti.

But then why the pizza yes?

During my professional practical courses in our school, addressing my students, I always recommend arranging the ingredients on the pizza evenly, trying to give it a decent look.

Last night they served me a pizza with rocket and raw ham, alas, already cut into wedges. Well you can never imagine what a horrible look it looked, try to imagine the rocket and the raw ham cut with the pizza cutter. A total havoc.

Serve the customer the pizza cut into wedges

Please don't follow this example, if you really like to cut pizza, first present it to the customer, then if you are asked to cut it you will.

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Conclusions

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Rising in the Summer with the Heat. As I always recommend, every holy day, during our professional courses to become a pizza chef in our school, Pay attention to the leavening.

Leavening is one of the 300 and more chemical processes that occur during the pizza preparation phase, it is so fast that it can be seen with the naked eye.

What to do in hot weather to control leavening

It is clear that before rolling out the ball we must wait for the leavening to have reached a sufficient stage, and this happens very quickly in the hot summer.

It is also true that the perfect pizza is not obtained when the leavened dough is in its descending phase, when it starts to smell of acid so to speak.

Rising in the Summer with the Heat

Someone should explain to these guys who pass themselves off as pizza chefs that refrigerators have long been invented, the fridge in addition to the classic use made of it for maturation (I really hope it gets done) it is also used to check the dough.

Going around pizzerias I see scandalous things, pizzas with shapes more similar to a square than to the classic round pizza. I understand that when you are in a hurry you don't mind these little things, but ... we are sure?

Summary on leavening

Leavening it's important, but you don't have to get the dough to "pierce" otherwise we are no longer talking about pizza.

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Conclusions

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