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yeah i should also elaborate that my perspective is a little bit warped

i come from a place where people like to take ten minutes and a whole pot to make a bowl of oatmeal

while i can do it in two minutes and directly in the bowl in the microwave


spergrage!! (i needed that pot now i must clean oatmeal)

pot cooked oatmeal beats the hell out of the nuked variety

though the nuked stuff is good too


really the only bad oatmeal is burned oatmeal

the trick is to slow cook it on on the stovetop with low heat

oh yes

similarly reheated pizza in the nuke is ok

but if you bake again it it's bettar

it occurs to me that i never use my microwave for anything other than reheating something

and reheated food tastes like shit in comparison to stuff that was cooked fresh

i mean i've tried cooking scrambled eggs in the microwave once

never again

Stofsk wrote:it occurs to me that i never use my microwave for anything other than reheating something

and reheated food tastes like shit in comparison to stuff that was cooked fresh

i mean i've tried cooking scrambled eggs in the microwave once

never again

but you should be able to cook anything in the microwave just like an oven

a canadian engineer said so

i've started nuking pop tarts

i used to always toast them

but i actually prefer the nuclear option there


usually the (non)ionizing radiation chamber is something i use to rapidly melt something

like butter when baking

or frozen sauce dips


and i use it when i want a cup of hot water LOLZ


but for the pop tarts it keeps the outside soft while making the inside hot

and i actually liek dat in this specific case

wat

he said that??

Stofsk wrote:wat

he said that??

it was awhile ago but i remember him going off on how wasteful conventional ovens were, and that you could cook anything in the microwave with better energy efficiency

Yeah, because there more efficient. Guess he likes desiccated food.

Technically it is true. It's just not particularly appetizing.

Which sort of defeats the point...

Yeah, I remember that too. Mike was going on in one thread about how conventional ovens are inefficient. To be fair I think he mentioned that he's got one of those microwaves that has a cooking lamp in it as well so that you can get some Maillard reaction going.


I use the microwave for cooking some stuff (I like doing vegetables in it), but there's other items that it's badly failed me on. For example, I like canned tomato soup when it's done on the stovetop, but I've tried the microwave with it and it comes out inedible to me.

Hate to say this boys but modern microwaves also work as convention ovens and are indeed better in every respect

The amazing technology of heating the air first is like ten years old

Well I still have the same microwave I had when we got married, so...

i also use it mostly to melt and defrost things, and make oatmeal

and also to cook vegetables actually

i like them way better microwaved than boiled or raw, and i hear some vegetables are more nutritious cooked than raw anyway sooo

and sometimes i make hot coco

starku wrote:Hate to say this boys but modern microwaves also work as convention ovens and are indeed better in every respect

The amazing technology of heating the air first is like ten years old

what about size? if you're cooking a meal for one or two people i could maybe see it, but 5+?

starku wrote:Hate to say this boys but modern microwaves also work as convention ovens and are indeed better in every respect

The amazing technology of heating the air first is like ten years old

dude i seriously have a microwave that's about twenty years old

i mean shit it still works and like i said all i use it for is to reheat last night's left overs, so there's never been an incentive to purchase a new one

I looked it up, yeah, Mike's got a convection/microwave oven, so it's not really the same thing as "i microwave everything". LOL at that thread though, Faram says "I just threw away my fully functional Microwave oven, because I newer used it and it was taking space in my kitchen." and Marina pops in to say "you'll be sorry when everything goes to hell just around the corner!!"

i always used to lol

the power of the atom

controlled by junky mechanical timers with cheap plastic knobs like a goddamn washing machien

taht was the 90s alright :V

Stofsk wrote:

starku wrote:Hate to say this boys but modern microwaves also work as convention ovens and are indeed better in every respect

The amazing technology of heating the air first is like ten years old

dude i seriously have a microwave that's about twenty years old

i mean shit it still works and like i said all i use it for is to reheat last night's left overs, so there's never been an incentive to purchase a new one

this is the problem

modern microwaves make food nicer than old ones

but microwaves seem to be essentially god damn indestructable as long as you don't do something like sling a fork in there or something

Even $120 microwaves here have conventional elements, even it they're not proper convection

Just well the eighteen blenders you all own and get a new microwave

uraniun235 wrote:I looked it up, yeah, Mike's got a convection/microwave oven, so it's not really the same thing as "i microwave everything". LOL at that thread though, Faram says "I just threw away my fully functional Microwave oven, because I newer used it and it was taking space in my kitchen." and Marina pops in to say "you'll be sorry when everything goes to hell just around the corner!!"

Gonna hook a bike up to it and try and cook eggs with a bicycle powered microwave?

God, she's such a nuttcase.

Well since we're posting our electric kitchen widgets I may as well post my list. Mostly because I'm bored.
-microwave
-blender
-rice cooker/steamer
-toaster
-George Foreman grill
-stand mixer
-hand mixer
-stick blender
-spice grinder
-food processor
-ice cream maker
-crock pot
-scale
-thermometer
-electric kettle

Plus a fridge and a dishwasher.

Aaron wrote:Gonna hook a bike up to it and try and cook eggs with a bicycle powered microwave?

it's just not possible to fry an egg that way man

Not even with a bicycle powered hair dryer.

The Spartan wrote:Well since we're posting our electric kitchen widgets I may as well post my list. Mostly because I'm bored.
-microwave THAT SUCKS
-blender
-rice cooker/steamer
-toaster
-George Foreman grill
-stand mixer
-hand mixer
-stick blender
-spice grinder
-food processor
-ice cream maker
-crock pot
-scale
-thermometer
-electric kettle

Plus a fridge and a dishwasher.

FIXO!!

also she will power her microwave with the tea clipper she will be running into south america

yeah that's right

'tea'