Chapter 20

Recent Developments in Microwave Heating

Semin O. Ozkoc1, Gülüm Sumnu2,  and Serpil Sahin2     1Vocational School of Food and Agriculture, Food Technology Department, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey     2Food Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

There has been a significant increase in the number of household microwave ovens in recent years. Nowadays, the microwave oven is widely used for the reheating of prepared foods in the food service sector. Microwave heating has also found applications in the food industry, including the tempering of frozen foods, precooking of bacon, pasteurization of packaged foods, and the final drying of pasta products. Microwave food processes offer a lot of ...

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