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I cook from scratch so I don't use mine as often as some. It is very handy for boiling water, melting things and steaming fresh vegetables in my microwave steamer.
Mine caught fire a couple weeks ago, so it's been that long.
I would say that's a gross generalization made without reading any of the responses in this thread.
obviously its a generalization, obviously microwaves are used to reheat stuff you have in the fridge or food you froze...however there are several large freezer sections in the stores with boxed micrwaved dinners, pizza, hot pockets, popcorn and other shhh
1) Heat up a single cup of coffee/water/tea - cheaper than turning on the stove.
2) To soften butter.
3) To warm up leftovers (soups, chili, etc.)
4) To sweat vegetables in preparation of further cooking.
5) To hasten the baking of potatoes (10 minutes in the microwave reduces the required baking time to 20 minutes in the conventional oven).
Could I live without it? Sure. but why?
There are a lot of things that microwaves are NOT good for and I use something else on those occasions.
obviously its a generalization, obviously microwaves are used to reheat stuff you have in the fridge or food you froze...however there are several large freezer sections in the stores with boxed micrwaved dinners, pizza, hot pockets, popcorn and other shhh
Nice try. There are even more freezer, refrigerated and nonperishable sections filled with foods that also can be microwaved, either in their original forms or in combination with other foods.
If you're trying to say that using a microwave equals poor nutrition, you're failing mightily.
I use it mostly to reheat things or for frozen foods! Also, once in a while to further cook a steak that is nicely browned on the outside (George Foreman Grill) but still too bloody pink when cut!
Also probably once a day for something else, heating water for coca, softening butter, browning hamburger, cooking bacon for my favorite summer sandwich (BLTs), steaming vegs. Popcorn. I use it to make chili from a microwave recipe book that I got in 1978, along with my first microwave. I'm on my second one now.
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