Microwaves?

[EmmaReed84]

How much do you use your microwave? (if you have one)

Before I met DH I hardly ever used one, things were cooked in the oven or on the hob, including beans and super noodles lol. Never saw the point of a microwave tbh!

Then I met MIL and she microwaved EVERYTHING! Today I even caught her microwaving minced beef to make a cottage pie ... ewwww lol

I have to admit I now use the microwave a lot more for things like beans, porridge, noodles etc, but still minced beef is a step too far for me lol

[aly]

ewww no ....my friend made scrambled egg int he micro the other day

i use it to warm things up, defrost if needed quickly or ready meals now and again but proper meals in the oven etc.

[breezy]

mainly use mine for reheating, my mum always cooks the veg in hers for some reason!

[kellib]

I haven't got one but I want one purely for micro chips!

[FussyElmo]

For oats ready brek and weetabix in the mornings and defrosting

[~Grasshopper~]

to re heat my coffee and my kids milk.

[flowerpots]

I use my purely for re-heating.

Microwaved mince beef EEEEEEUUUUUWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

[Becci26]

I have only just bought one at the weekend but intend to use it for reheating things and maybe defrosting in an emergency, can't imagine I will use it much tbh as I haven't needed one for the last few years but there are times when I have thought it would be handy.

I certainly wouldn't be cooking mince in one!

[kindredspirits]

get a pot plant - keep it in your kitchen, and every time you go to water it - give it microwaved water (cooled obviously) - see what happens to the plant, and then decide if you want to keep your microwave!!!!!

[loocyloo]

i use mine for making porridge, re heating my cups of tea and thats about it!

dh on the other hand would cook everything and anything in it!

[EmmaReed84]

get a pot plant - keep it in your kitchen, and every time you go to water it - give it microwaved water (cooled obviously) - see what happens to the plant, and then decide if you want to keep your microwave!!!!!

Ohh what happens?

[jumping j]

Ohh what happens?

I want to know too, but I'd kill the plant before I saw anything happen!!!

[singingcactus]

I haven't got one but I want one purely for micro chips!

Haha, I bought a cheap morrisons one last month for micro chips and ready brek And that's all that we ever do in it.

[singingcactus]

get a pot plant - keep it in your kitchen, and every time you go to water it - give it microwaved water (cooled obviously) - see what happens to the plant, and then decide if you want to keep your microwave!!!!!

Think if I had a plant and did this it would survive better than they usually do in my house. I forget to water them at all.

[LOOPYLISA]

Use ours mainly for heating up beans, milk etc, and defrosting

I would expect the plant will die ?

[onceinabluemoon]

As I have three under two I tend to cook their lunch time meal the night before and microwave it to heat it at lunchtime next day.

[kindredspirits]

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[rickysmiths]

This is an interesting thread!

I studied microwave cookers (they are not ovens) for my final dissertation for my Diploma in Home Economics in the mid seventies when hardly anyone had one in their homes and a mid range cooker cost £350 and the more expensive ones £700 - £900. I was lucky enough to work with the only Microwave Centre in the country then for my work experience.


I find the experiment carried out on the plants fundamentally flawed. You would never water plants with filtered water. It has minerals and chemicals in it that tap water does not. This is why we can't use filtered water to make up babies bottles.

If you then take two samples and boil them the one boiled in the open pan on the hob will loose more of these through the boiling process because it is open an more vigorous than that boiled in the microwave.

To be honest neither of the plants looked very healthy probably because they had be watered with filtered water!

Use of the microwave:
I use mine for all the usually reheating and defrosting functions.
I melt chocolate.
I warm lemons slightly before squeezing them because you get more juice out of them.
I bake potatoes.
I cook vegetables.
I poach fish.
I scramble eggs.
I poach eggs.
I cook mince, sorry!
I cook chicken breasts.
I make cakes.
I cook poppadoms.
Warm bread.

I have had a microwave since I was a student, the company I did my work experience with gave me one because they were not allowed to pay me a salary. That was in 1977, they delivered it to my student house in Manchester. I had that Sharp microwave until 2004! It would have cost £355 if I had paid for it, about a month wages! I bought a Sharp to replace it and paid £60! I love my microwave.

I do a lot of cooking and baking and I do have a conventional hob and a double oven as well and they are used all the time too.
I soften fondant for cake decorating.

[stardust]

This is an interesting thread!

I studied microwave cookers (they are not ovens) for my final dissertation for my Diploma in Home Economics in the mid seventies when hardly anyone had one in their homes and a mid range cooker cost £350 and the more expensive ones £700 - £900. I was lucky enough to work with the only Microwave Centre in the country then for my work experience.


I find the experiment carried out on the plants fundamentally flawed. You would never water plants with filtered water. It has minerals and chemicals in it that tap water does not. This is why we can't use filtered water to make up babies bottles.

If you then take two samples and boil them the one boiled in the open pan on the hob will loose more of these through the boiling process because it is open an more vigorous than that boiled in the microwave.

To be honest neither of the plants looked very healthy probably because they had be watered with filtered water!

Use of the microwave:
I use mine for all the usually reheating and defrosting functions.
I melt chocolate.
I warm lemons slightly before squeezing them because you get more juice out of them.
I bake potatoes.
I cook vegetables.
I poach fish.
I scramble eggs.
I poach eggs.
I cook mince, sorry!
I cook chicken breasts.
I make cakes.
I cook poppadoms.
Warm bread.

I have had a microwave since I was a student, the company I did my work experience with gave me one because they were not allowed to pay me a salary. That was in 1977, they delivered it to my student house in Manchester. I had that Sharp microwave until 2004! It would have cost £355 if I had paid for it, about a month wages! I bought a Sharp to replace it and paid £60! I love my microwave.

I do a lot of cooking and baking and I do have a conventional hob and a double oven as well and they are used all the time too.
I soften fondant for cake decorating.

Times like this i really really need a like button! PAULINE FOR THE JUBILEE CAN WE HAVE A LIKEY BUTTON PERLEASEEEEEEE?? Can we Can we?
gosh that sounds like a mindee of mine

[christine e]

I use mine for porridge, cook all vegetables and potatoes in micro, poach fish, poached eggs, part cook oven chips then finish off in over,
defrosting, bacon, then the usual reheating