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I have not even owned a microwave for years. I don't have a use for one, and don't like how they cook anyway. Many leftovers that I want to reheat would just be turned soggy and un appealing by a microwave, and I don't often use pre fab frozen stuff. When I do my little convection oven works as well, better actually than a microwave. I know people who do everything in a microwave. About the only thing that turns out ok for me in a nuke is re heating a cup of coffee or tea, and my stove top will do that.
Bacon does turn out ok finished in a microwave, but my convection will do that to. Usually I just go with my iron skillet all the way though. I have heard that cooking with a microwave is unhealthy, which I don't really know or not, and that's not why I don't use one. I just don't care for nuked food. It doesn't taste right and they often totally ruin texture. So how bout it? Pros and cons of the nuclear oven?
I prefer to heat/reheat most things in the oven or on the stovetop. I do use my microwave often for microwave popcorn. Also those steamable bags of veggies, or to melt butter quickly
Certainly not for meals that I am cooking.. more just to heat left overs up quickly.
Less power... more time... seems to work best.
Exactly. I use mine just to reheat or do simple things like melt cheese on chili dogs. Sometimes I'll use the defrost setting to bring butter or eggs to room temperature quickly. It has it's uses.
I don't "cook" in a microwave, but I do use it for various things:
Softening or melting butter, chocolate, and cream cheese
Toasting nuts and seeds
Reheating a cup of tea
Creating a warm environment for bread to rise (it's great for this)
Reheating small amounts of leftovers like chili (good because I can eat right out of the ceramic container without making another pot dirty)
I do remember that when microwaves first came out, there were all kinds of cookbooks of the meals you could make in the microwave. People quickly figured out that most food is not very good cooked that way. But as everyone else has said, it has its uses.
Microwaves are not for cooking only use it to warm up food when needed and for microwave popcorn. Just like a dishwasher, I can live without it. Some say baked potatoes taste the same, not at all.
No, the taste is certainly not the same. My favorite way of doing baked potatoes is on the grill. But firing it up just for spuds in not practical. Both the taste and texture of a baked spud is way different in the microwave. And even for reheating meat of any kind changes taste and texture as well. Turns it to rubber and robs flavor.
You seem to be fishing for others to validate your dislike for microwave ovens when in fact most of us use them everyday.
minute Oatmeal, reheat coffee, melting butter, reheat leftovers, soften bread, steam bag veggies, microwave burritos, boil water quickly, hot chocolate, popcorn, etc.
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