Do you actually use your Microwave??

CupOfChai

*thinks*

Soup.

Things like those little individual puddings and custard pots (plus the occasional cheeky ready meal).

Baked potato - also with it being just me I've found it's quicker and easier to do a portion of mash by baking a potato in the microwave, scooping it out and mashing with a fork on my plate.

Quickly warming things like a bit of pie or slice of quiche.

Reheating meals when dearest Mumsie used to cook for me and I'd get in later on. She uses it for Christmas pudding too.

I think that's the lot. I heat the odd homemade-and-frozen dish in there but for some reason I prefer doing them in a pan most of the time. Also agree with those who said they dislike defrosting in the microwave because of the way the edges start to cook. I can't stand that, it's awful.

Oh, almost forgot. I'm sure I've a recipe somewhere for a chocolate mug cake done quickly in the microwave, but haven't tried it yet as I usually don't really like microwaved cake. It gets a strange, rather synthetic sort of taste.

Wortle

I just cant believe this thread!

I logged in to look for hints on where to buy a good value microwave. NOW! I am bereft. Mine has died after only 5 years. I am seriously wondering if I should even research it. I am not putting on the main oven to bake a potato for my lunch. That would double my electricity bill, I am sure. I got the book out to see what I should be matching on features. I couldnt believe how many features it had that I didnt use tho.

I barely use a hob or other oven. If I could only have one appliance in the kitchen, it would be the MW, not even the hob.
But that is cooking for one person 95% of the time, so perhaps this is about quantities rather than anything else.

Emuchops

Cooking pasta and rice, softening butter, frying mushrooms and bringing red wine to "room temperature". Oh and "re-freshening" stale bread.