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What do you cook in your microwave oven?
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Mrs_Thrify
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Hi all, I was just asking what do people cook in their microwaves?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Spring begins on 21st March.
Spring begins on 21st March.
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Nothing. I don't have one.
My sister's parner gave me his old one several years ago, but I didn't enjoy anything that came out of it, so it got passed along. I much prefer the taste of food from the hob, or oven
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Nothing. I do use it to melt and heat things through. That's it0
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usually cook vegs in it which is most days, also cook quick microwave sponge puddings (made from scratch), custard, heat soups, have baked a sponge cake once or twice..#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
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Mostly for defrosting and warming things back up.
Fish, the only thing i think of that actually gets cooked.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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I tend to use mine for reheating things rather than cooking. I think the last thing I 'cooked' in it was probably a packet of savoury rice (I like it
) but that was a while ago.
I used to use it a lot more than I do now as I didn't have an oven/cooker where I used to live and my microwave is also a grill/oven so came in very useful!
Oh! craft-a-holic, you just reminded me, I do use mine for doing jacket potatoes as I can't justify having the oven on for over an hour for one potato! They taste the same to me, just not as crispy.Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
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I use mine to make the cheese sauce for macaroni, scrambled egg, heating beans/spaghetti/peas, starting off baked potatoes before finishing in oven cos I like skin to be crisp, softening butter when baking, heating milk for hot chocolate/horlicks, making porridge, defrosting things like bread and occasionally mince if I've forgotten to take out of freezer, warming croissants....I use it quite a lot actually!Decluttering, home-making and 'proper' cooking are my priorities this year and trying to finish all those unfinished hobby projects before spending any more money!0
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I love veggies cooked in the microwave - especially carrots and leeks. They just seem to retain their 'true' flavour as they cook so quickly and in less water - bit like when done in a Pressure Cooker. Also
- Good for softening onions etc for a casserole without adding extra calories with cooking oil.
- Always warm up baked beans, peas, tins of soup etc instead of using a pan on the hob.
- Scrambled eggs.
- Jacket potato for one or two - any more than that and it's worthwhile putting the oven on for an hour or so for the lovely crispy skin :drool:.
- Melting chocolate for baking.
- Melting jelly for desserts.
- Christmas Pud.
- Frozen peas/sweetcorn
- Warming up meals when somebody is late in.
- Warming up a cup of coffee when I've forgotten about it
. - Milk for hot milky drinks.
- Stewing fruit.
- Microwave hottie/wheatbags
- Porridge
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Don't have one.Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
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Great for steaming veg, and cooking rice is pretty easy in a microwave.0
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