I do have serious questions sometimes.

[gravecat]

Okay, so I have to ask. Serious question here, I really wanna know, if only for the sake of science

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[gravecat]

Microwaves are indeed a strange breed. So, in effect, by draining off this substance (it tasted of nothing, so there was no reason to eat it), my microwave experiment has actually made this meal marginally healthier?

How bizarre.

[raven_rivers]

Milk fat? Casein?

I can only guess, but it sounds like the microwave is liquefying one part of the cheese, but not the rest of it. Sort of like it's breaking the cheese-substance down into lesser parts.

However, not being a cheese or microwave expert, I can't be certain.

[gravecat]

Hmm, how odd. Perhaps the different parts inside the cheese have differing melting/boiling points, and the temperature was just at the threshold between the two?

Science is a mysterious thing.

[lilpika]

It's water from the milk used to make the cheese.

Water does not evaproate in a microwave, it simply seperates and becomes super-heated, you don't drain it off either, you should stir\mix it back in. There is a reason Microwave meals tell you to stop occasionally and give it a good mix. Don't forget to let it stand either, otherwise you'll get a cancerous stomach!

The same thing will happen in a grill just to a considerably lesser extent.

[gravecat]

Definitely not water. :) Didn't look like water, didn't flow like water, and when I poured it into the sink, it acted pretty much exactly how oil does when it reacted with the water in the sink (i.e. formed into little oily blobs and refused to mix).