Do you actually use your Microwave??

Claudie

I have the combo too and use it daily - would be lost without it!

I tend to use mine for the bulk of cooking as the oven is a good size for a small round grill or small casserole dish and from a MSE point of view - it is far cheaper to run than my big oven as it heats up quicker and has a smaller area to heat. And I can use a double tray to cook two things at once.

Grilled fish, jacket spuds, chicken ...many more I find cook perfectly on a combo convection/grill setting. I hardly ever use the MW part of it and for one or two people, I would imagine it is much more cost effective.

whosforachat

I don't use anything else, except the toaster. Mind you, I wouldn't recommend it if you like to appreciate the taste of your food (to me it's just fuel). On the health issue, I never buy the MW ready-meals with sauces and other stuff with additives; you can get quite a lot of stuff that has been frozen without adding much in the way of chemicals and toxins. Having said that, if I had kids, I would learn to cook.

I loved thriftlady's saying about food and great grandmothers; a very good rule.

moanymoany

I make jam in mine. Never sticks and never burns! :j

jumbles_2

use mine its a combo, great money saver, also try cooking carrots with 2 tblspns water, cling film, or pyrex lid for about 6 mins in microwave, tastes like carrots should, also use microwave for steamed puddings, cakes, brilliant, just mix throw in ping cooked, eaten

rio

I use mine for precooking veg for a few minutes before putting it in the slow cooker, for cooking rice, and warming up soups, baked beans etc. I also use it for heating through sponge puddings. I had one when I first got married, and then when that one wore out I happily did without one for about 10 years before I was given one as a christmas present a couple of years ago.

Burnsie_3

Like Belfastgirl I use mine for porridge every morning (must be a Norn Iron thing as I'm from there too).
Also cook veg in it as it's quicker than steaming, uses a lot less water & if you get the timing right does very good crisp & colourful veg with less loss of vitamins.
Also use it for reheating/defrosting HM stuff - less pans to wash up!

azjh77

Only thing we use ours for is that lovely 2 for 1 mircowave popcorn they sell in Tesco!

NiteRider

We just use ours for defrosting, jacket spuds and occasionally heating up soup. We rarely eat microwave meals.

greg123_2

Never, ever. We don't have one and haven't had for many years. Do the research, blasting food with microwave radiation is bad for it and can alter protein chains - lots of stuff out there indicating you can end up sick eating nuked food. Plus it kills everything, a home made soup will have a far better vit/enzyme count. Finally I can't stand the taste, I can taste a nuked baked potato a mile off, awful - even if it's finished in the oven.

I do sometimes eat ready food, but only oven warmed and only if it's got no 'e's in it. I also get no indigestion and lethagy after food as a bonus!

Greg.

Mad_Lil

Try cooking rice in there - Its perfect --- never burns or sticks to the container like it does on the hob -