Benefits of a microwave

[trashpony]

bump as I've just discovered the best reason for using a microwave - bringing horrible fridge-cold tomatoes up to room temperature loveliness in 30 seconds.

My perpetual dilemma over whether to keep tomatoes in the fridge or not has been resolved. Happy day

You are a bloody genius. I hate cold tomatoes but they go off too fast if I leave them out

 

[beeboo]

You are a bloody genius. I hate cold tomatoes but they go off too fast if I leave them out

why thank you. Perhaps this will be my legacy to the world

It's a bit trial and error getting them to that perfect "ripened on a sunny windowsill" warmth but I'm finding about 30 seconds on half-power does the trick for the average sized tom.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Actually I take back what I said before. A micro wave is great for part cooking flapjacks. I also used to love soggy melted cheese sandwiches.

 

[trashpony]

Grated cheese in little piles and zapped for about a minute turns into awesome cheesy crisps.

 

[Lo Siento.]

recently done the reverse and moved into a house with no microwave. You have no idea how much it pisses me off having to reheat food now

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I mainly use mine to soften butter, defrost things and heat up the tea that I never get around to drinking
Oh and for heating up my cherry stone pillow.

 

[paolo]

There's less washing-up involved when you reheat things on a plate in the microwave as opposed to in a pan then onto a plate.

There's also less washing up when you cook rice, porridge, scrambled eggs, pasta (little ones, not spaghetti), noodles, poached eggs, some types of veggie sausages, all sorts of things that only really require warming to be cooked: either you can cook those items on the plate/one of the plates you'll be eating off, or you'll only have a wipe-clean plastic dish to clean rather than a metal pan. It's also a fair bit quicker.

And alot more energy efficient too.

 

[mincepie]

All the advantages aside, a basic small timer only one is £20-25 from the likes of Tesco, Argos etc, at that price it's a no brainer!

 

[madzone]

I use mine for dying wool, silk and the occasional panel of scrim.

HTH

 

[1927]

The greatest time saving ever is Christmas pudding.Can't remember the exact saving but its in excess of 90% iirc.