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Marna Gilligan wrote: > I will acknowledge that they're useful for reheating plates of food, and > I've used them in then past for softening butter for baking, too. But when > I've had veg from a microwave it's been horribly soggy - and *differently* > horribly soggy to other overcooked veg - but this might have just been > the person wielding the timer at fault. I really don't like microwaved > baked potatoes - the skin has the wrong texture so I don't want to eat it, > and the skin is the best bit of a baked potato. I have also never really had success with vegetables in a microwave. The only time I have had anything approaching what I wanted it was with things like frozen sweetcorn which would be much easier in a pan on the hob. (Usually I only do things in the microwave if I'm out of pans or gas rings.) If the vegetables are not covered with water then they always seem to go soggy but in a horrible leathery way. > I think there are too many Bad & Wrong things done with microwaves and > this also biases me. Microwaved scrambled eggs - one of the most terrible > things in the universe. I have had microwaved scrambled egg in cafes and it can be very bad. It's when it ends up dry to the point of actually being crumbly that I get very concerned. ;) I have been experimenting with cooking bacon in a microwave so I can have bacon sandwiches at work. (Obviously, when I'm at home I do it in a frying pan or under the grill.) It is never as good as doing it properly, and the result depends a lot on the brand of bacon you use (Tesco bacon is all far too wet, but even the cheap bacon in Safeways works well; I haven't tried any actual quality bacon), but it is possible to achieve adequate results (better than a cold bacon sandwich, anyway). When I do have proper cooking equipment available, the microwave is used solely for thawing things I forgot to move to the fridge the night before, reheating takeaways, and getting baked potatoes up to temperature for finishing in the oven (ten minutes in the microwave can reduce 2.5 hours to 1.5 since there isn't the time needed to heat them through). It can also be useful for drying out small items of clothing, but that's a bit off-topic for this list. ;) MartinThere's stuff above here
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