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29 May 2025, 11:23 pm

Just out of curiosity, what's your favorite recipe for microwaved chicken?



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02 Jun 2025, 11:19 pm

It's good to have working appliances. I don't know how I lived without microwave before. For cooking though I'd only use it for veggies. Things tend to get soggy. Meat taste better baked. Just rub some sauce on them and put into a hot oven, set a timer and take them out later. If your oven is big enough you can put veggies in as well, with salt, pepper and some oil. Several meals can be make in 30 minutes. :)


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02 Jun 2025, 11:36 pm

y-pod wrote:
It's good to have working appliances. I don't know how I lived without microwave before. For cooking though I'd only use it for veggies. Things tend to get soggy. Meat taste better baked. Just rub some sauce on them and put into a hot oven, set a timer and take them out later. If your oven is big enough you can put veggies in as well, with salt, pepper and some oil. Several meals can be make in 30 minutes. :)


About all I use a microwave for is to warm up leftovers.

Some leftovers work okay in a microwave. Others don't.

Even for warming them up, warming them up in a toaster oven nearly always provides better results.



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03 Jun 2025, 7:45 am

I use a microwave a bit for heating up leftovers but I never use it for actual cooking except for heating up baked potatoes. A microwave works better than an oven for that but it can still take a while depending on the size of the potatoes & how many are being cooked at a time.


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03 Jun 2025, 12:43 pm

They are okay for boiling water, too.



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03 Jun 2025, 1:11 pm

I just microwaved some rice. I like these little pouches of rice you can get that microwave in 2 minutes. That's much better than farting around cooking rice normally.


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03 Jun 2025, 1:16 pm

DuckHairback wrote:
I just microwaved some rice. I like these little pouches of rice you can get that microwave in 2 minutes. That's much better than farting around cooking rice normally.
I heard rice cookers are better & easier but I have no experience with them.


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03 Jun 2025, 1:22 pm

I got an instant pot that cooks rice quite easily and quickly but it's still not two minutes in a microwave quick'n'easy. Nothing beats that.


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03 Jun 2025, 1:36 pm

nick007 wrote:
DuckHairback wrote:
I just microwaved some rice. I like these little pouches of rice you can get that microwave in 2 minutes. That's much better than farting around cooking rice normally.
I heard rice cookers are better & easier but I have no experience with them.


I have several rice cookers.

The absolute best is one that I bought about 1980 for about $0.75 (shipping and handling) and two proofs of purchase from comet rice packages.

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This also does well for steaming tamales.

There is a similar style called the Charleston Cooker.