Microwave cookery. Do you?
I have never cooked anything in a microwave. That is, I've never used seperate ingredients to make something, such as a flan, or a cake, or what have you.
I've only ever used it to heat things up.
thinking about it, I use it pretty much to heat up left overs, or warm baked beans up.
I've only ever used it to heat things up.
thinking about it, I use it pretty much to heat up left overs, or warm baked beans up.
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Those microwaveable pouchs of rice are *very* useful.
The only things we use the microwave for now is heating up milk for the kids and teas/coffess if they've gone a bit cold.
I'm still waiting for the report to come out that any one who has used a microwave to heat up some food and didn't wait a full minute before consuming it is going to die from some horrific internal radiated illness.
They're a bit crap really. I remember all the hype about being able to make a lovely golden roast chicken in the microwave. LIES! Microwaves don't work like that.
That's just to let the heat conduct a bit around the food. When it's straight out of the microwave usually you have hot and cold spots, so some parts of the food will be like napalm and other bits will be stone cold. Leaving it for a minute just allows the hot spots to cool, and the cold spots to heat up.
But normally use it to heat things up, normally baked beans for breakfast or often a curry/chinese to warm up the next day.
I know theres the whole hoopla of how bad reheated curry is etc but i think i'm old enough to take the 'risk' !
As for cooking things from scratch my aunt used to serve us up some beautiful pink chicken if we ever went to hers for sunday (she went through a phase of mic-ing everything, when she got her cooking TV, bloody huge thing it was 70's surplus without a doubt). My best mate used to make meringues in the mic, used to be interesting to watch them go round, they kind of inflated, but he did it more than once, quite often on a saturday afternoon, so they must have ended up edible?
I find reheating a curry in the microwave is fine, but I dunno about Chinese, though... Whenever I've tried reheating one the next day it's always ended up tasting rank!!
But nah, never use my microwave for actual cooking, just reheating.
The rest, I'd add a couple of bits from the cupboard, and fry it all up in a wok.
don't use it much anyway, just reheating like most other people. had an iceland microwave meal "prawns in chilli sauce" once, the prawns were rock hard when it was done. had to throw it all away
i think instructions for those sorts of things should be in your microwave manual.
In fact, my main oven blew up and I didn't bother to replace it for 2 years as the microwave and hobs were enough.
Mine's got one of them. I remember trying to grill a burger in it when I first got it, just to see what happened. Not a lot happened... it was taking forever, so I stuck it under the proper grill instead.
I've always found that curries reheated if they're hot curries, gain even more of a kick. Still not as good as reheating your own homemade arse burner in a pan the next day though :D
As for chinese food I found it tastes OK reheated but the majority of chinese food seems to seperate from the sauce, so you end up with the sauce on the bottom of your plate (and really watery for some reason), and an island of food. Swimming in a noodle and rice infested moat.
See kiddo there's your answer, she is the one for you, since you're a bit of a dab hand in the kitchen. As obviously she can't cook for shit :p
steamed veg goes rather well in a microwave (well, veg steams well in there), as do spuds.....bung 'em in before finishing them off in an oven, it halfs the cooking time
just ensure to put your items on the outside edge of the rotating plate, microwaves use a single point of emission of energy into the cavity, this bounces off the walls and creates a standing wave, i.e. hot spots and cold spots, where the magnetron emissions are bounced off the walls (think of a laser bouncing off two mirrors, you get a fixed pattern if you hold the laser steady)..........
finally, i'll add, it IS safe to put metal in a microwave, only certain shapes though, AND you must ensure that the metal doesn't touch the chassis of the microwave......it's one of them old wives tales that protects people really!!
oh, i'll add finally, I don't own a microwave (still), nearly two years in here in Oz and i've managed without one!!....though i've still got a box of macaroni cheese i bought on the day I landed that i'm going to hand down the generations of ikkle woodyatt's :-)
It's not nice of you to call Milesy sh** :cry:
I do some things in the m/wave such as the frozen 'chicken breast in gravy' things which are okay but i tend to use the oven more. It takes longer but dosen't dry things out the same. But when you're living on your own and work long hours (me) you tend to use the microwave more. When i get home from work i can't be arsed starting from scratch so sometimes i will shove something in the microwave. I tend to go for the 'low fat' stuff which is sometimes not bad.
Yeah I do that as well :lol:
Although if my wife is out, or I have a night off work I usually have to fend for myself, then it's oven chips or microwave burritos :D
The only thing I enjoy making from scratch these days is curry.