Originally Posted by amma
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Warm and Natural cotton batting and other cotton batting has scrim. Scrim is a very think poly layer and poly is what catches on fire in a high wattage microwave. If you microwave is around 800 watts it think the regular batting is fine. Put a piece of any batting you want to use for the bag in the microwave and test it for the length of baking several potatoes. I wrap my potatoes in a cotton feed sack towel if I use the microwave. Not as pretty but works fine.
I keep hearing that certain plastics aren't good in the microwaves, too. The heat releases chemicals that aren't good for us... poly is a type of plastic I believe....
I think I may just make cotton bags without any batting in them for tater bags :D:D:D
Did you make one and did it work well without the batting. I want to make some but I'm thinking , like you, that I'll leave out the batting.