Microwaves- essential kitchen appliance or waste of worktop space?

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

I tend to use mine to warm butter up when making cake icing, as I inevitably forget to remove it from the fridge an hour beforehand. Twenty seconds is enough to ensure it doesn't smash around the mixer bowl like a lump of concrete.

Have also steamed vegetables in it from time to time, as somebody gave me a steamer & they come out looking & tasting better than when boiled on the hob.

Use a good old fashioned butter dish, or grate the hard butter

 

[severnside gull]

We have a microwave in our camping car but we've never used it. Don't have one at home.
One of the great cons of our time IMO.

 

[desprateseagull]

I reckon Cornish pasties do taste better baked, than nuked though- the pastry is less greasy?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Why the fu** are people using a microwave to make scrambled eggs!? Ffs

 

[perseus]

Can you see the future?

You can get talking microwave ovens as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cobolt-Systems-Ltd-Talking-Microwave/dp/B0035K4IWI

This is good when coming back from the pub and you need something done without reading the instruction book.

 

[perseus]

PS: proper oven has been condemned by the Gas Inspector. Do I really need a proper oven?

I am not keen on pastry and pies and I have got a slow cooker.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I am assuming that nobody here has babies/toddlers etc.

Milk in bottle, bottle in M/wave, 30 seconds later job done.

Try that on the hob in a saucepan of water.

...........in the middle of the night with a hungry infant on your shoulder.

 

[Ravids]

Defrosting chicken breasts and the occasional bowl of ready brek is all I use mine for.

 

[spence]

I couldn't live without my one now. No snobbery from me.

Great invention

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I have a mate who cooks bacon in microwave. I'm not sure why, but I find this repulsive - although he says it is a healthier alternative to frying... and he probably has a point.

Surely grilling is just as healthy and you get it nice n crispy!

 

[BensGrandad]

Do many people use it to actually cook food or mainly like me just to heat up or defreeze apart from scrambled egg.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Why the fu** are people using a microwave to make scrambled eggs!? Ffs

Because we don't like scrubbing pans afterwards.
Not had scrambled eggs not cooked in a microwave since god was a boy.
Its what microwaves were invented for.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Use a good old fashioned butter dish, or grate the hard butter

Grate it, when I could microwave it for 20 seconds? Er...no.

 

[clapham_gull]

Scrambled eggs and a microwave are a coalition more evil than the last one.

Two saucepans - one half filled with water and boiling and a smaller one sitting on top.

Eggs in with a knob of butter (important) and whisk like hell.

Add pepper when you like but salt towards the end.

No milk, no microwave and easy to clean the saucepan.

 

[perseus]

White Pepper only.

I think I might have to try cooking scrambled eggs in microwave How ?

The only drag with the normal method is cleaning the non-stick (still flipping sticks) heavy duty frying pan.

 

[Norman Potting]

Grate it, when I could microwave it for 20 seconds? Er...no.

...or use Stork? Look forward to "why use an oven when you could buy an Aga"?

 

[Notters]

I have a mate who cooks bacon in microwave. I'm not sure why, but I find this repulsive - although he says it is a healthier alternative to frying... and he probably has a point.

I never use any oil when frying bacon anyway.

 

[Notters]

Because we don't like scrubbing pans afterwards.
Not had scrambled eggs not cooked in a microwave since god was a boy.
Its what microwaves were invented for.

Scrambled eggs and a microwave are a coalition more evil than the last one.

Two saucepans - one half filled with water and boiling and a smaller one sitting on top.

Eggs in with a knob of butter (important) and whisk like hell.

Add pepper when you like but salt towards the end.

No milk, no microwave and easy to clean the saucepan.

Cannot I recommend a non stick pan?!

 

[Uncle Buck]

Get round the frying bacon by buying a griddle pan.

Get round the washing up issue by investing in a dishwasher, although I do see a case for having 2 dishwashers, then you would rarely have to put things in the kitchen cupboards.

On a microwave they have their uses, normally for defrosting and maybe boiling milk.

 

[mothy]

I got rid of the micro wave a year ago. The only times I miss it are for heating milk in the night when the toddler wakes & for making scrambled eggs