Thread: Microwaves - horrible things

The other half has wanted a microwave since seeing one at a friends house, despite my protests, she got me one for my birthday. I don't see that they serve any useful purpose to somebody who likes real food. They ruin eggs and making coffee in them should be a punishable offence. She also figured it would be a more practical way of making toast as this method doesn't produce any crumbs.

It's her birthday next month, I'm going to buy her a pool table.

Good exchange.

If foods worth eating Why would you want to nuke it, pool table excellent alternative

I use the microwave for two things, reheating food and defrosting food, dont use it to cook, period.

In fact only just recently bought a microwave having not had one for the last 2 years or so. An Indonesian friend saw us buying it and expressed surprise that I didnt have one already

"don't all bule (westerners) have one??

A microwave can be handy in the kitchen, but it has a limited appeal in LOS. Back in Blighty, one can melt butter, make scambled eggs, make very quick instant coffee and cook garlic mushrooms in under two minutes. My Mum has one and she would be lost without it.

In LOS, my MIL has one and she uses it to stand the phone on. Other than that, it seves no usefull purpose.

It is appliance for warming up food, full stop.

my misses only uses our microwave to melt wax for her legs thats all its good for here

I don't understand why your wife has wax legs, but its OK I guess.

But Micro's are good for a lot of things,, give the kids a dozen eggs and a micro and they will have a hell of a time til all the eggs are gone.
You can use it to dry cats and those darling little dogs that yap all the time after you have given them their bath and have failed to drown the worthless bastards.

We had a microwave. "Good for cooking fish" says I.
Later whilst having a quiet read.
"No good for cooking fish. Makes too much bang"

Yup, fish wrapped in silver foil placed in microwave on full power fucks up microwaves.

We'll stick to the BBQ

Bless her

Originally Posted by blackgang

give the kids a dozen eggs and a micro and they will have a hell of a time til all the eggs are gone.

that is fun...

Cane toads make a really really bad mess.

How many Cane Toads can you run at one time??

And is it a viable way to rid the country of the nasty pricks.?

The kids did 'em one at a time 'till we stopped caught them.
Nope, don't think so. The RSPA would get very excited. You can't even use a golf club nowadays.

There is a science to cooking with a microwave -- if you don't understand the fundamentals, you'll miss the point entirely. If you're trying to render gourmet, seven-course meals from a microwave, you're off the mark. It's use is limited.

The selection of microwaveable foods, however, has come a long way in the past few years -- not Thailand though.

Hundreds of selections of full-on meals available in your grocer's freezers. Nothing resembling the crappy selection of cardboard pizzas and potpies (meatpies) of years gone by. A microwave oven becomes far more useful if you have a great spread of options.

Of course if you live in Thailand, there is nothing of the sort. And the options that are available are ridiculously priced, making them even less desirable.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Hundreds of selections of full-on meals available in your grocer's freezers. Nothing resembling the crappy selection of cardboard pizzas and potpies (meatpies) of years gone by.

yes, but few are good.

I agree Tex, quite usless devices her, but in OZ I can pull a imicro meat pie from the feezer and be chomping on it 5 minutes later

Originally Posted by jandajoy

yes, but few are good.

Delicious if you are a Darfur resident.

^Not too much power to run em out there mate.

Originally Posted by peterpan

but in OZ I can pull a imicro meat pie from the feezer and be chomping on it 5 minutes later

How many times have you burnt your mouth to buggery? I know I have.

Originally Posted by Anchovy

I don't see that they serve any useful purpose to somebody who likes real food.

Agree but now that you have one make the best of it!

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Originally Posted by jandajoy

^Not too much power to run em out there mate.

Go green use solar power. Plenty of that in Darfur.

Originally Posted by Norton

Go green use solar power. Plenty of that in Darfur.

I wonder how many solar cell thingies you'd need to run a m/w?

Originally Posted by Texpat

Hundreds of selections of full-on meals available in your grocer's freezers. Nothing resembling the crappy selection of cardboard pizzas and potpies (meatpies) of years gone by. A microwave oven becomes far more useful if you have a great spread of options.

Of course if you live in Thailand, there is nothing of the sort. And the options that are available are ridiculously priced, making them even less desirable.

CP has shops selling frozen food.
They are producing so much of them they even export them to Germany.

^

that ain't food

Originally Posted by blackgang

give the kids a dozen eggs and a micro and they will have a hell of a time til all the eggs are gone.

Try putting a lighted candle in the MW on full power

Originally Posted by Mid

^

that ain't food

That was to prove that Texpat got a false impression that there is no microwave food in Thailand.

Actually it is better than I thought.