Microwaves been out of fashion?

We haven't had a microwave for years. Never used it.

We do have a front opening air fryer now which has a rotisserie in it.

I'm using that alot more now to save money as its much cheaper than using the gas oven

Well I can be labelled a Dotty Dumbo too! I haven't had a microwave since the 90s when all the reports of loss of nutrients from food and leach of toxins from plastic containers came out. I was already not using it much because stuff reheated in it had such an awful texture, and never cooked in it because flavours never developed properly. One of my friends uses hers strictly for scrambled eggs. They taste of nothing and have the texture of rubber!

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Have just read the article and two words come to mind.
Patronising Plonker

We use ours everyday. It is a combi and it is so efficient I can't imagine being without it.

Obviously she like that program are out of touch with us poor folks lol I got my first microwave as a wedding present off my now ex inlaws and I’ve had one every since I use mine for warming stuff milk tin food obviously not in the tin lol pudding in a mug bacon I used it most days

I have a combi oven/microwave/grill, no big oven. Wouldn't want a big oven again.

LadyGracie

I've got a Panasonic convection microwave, I use it for porridge, heating milk, defrosting meat, bread etc. Warming plates, heating oatbags. I use it alot.
I'd love to use it to cook in it as an oven but the temperature does not reach anywhere near what it says, I put an oven thermometer in whilst warming plates, the lowest temperature setting is 150°c it only reaches 80°c.
Are there any better?

I'm not sure if this will answer your question, but mine (a Sage one) will boil water, as have previous ones I have owned. My oven thermometer (or the thing that Mr Dog* used to test the temp of my old oven) is metal and won't go in the microwave. So if yours is not able to boil liquid it is not working properly.

*He was wrong in his insistence that it was keeping to temp, so lost his bet and I got a new one .

I have a combi one since the late 80s. This is my second. I use it regularly, although rarely use the actual combi programme except for baked potatoes and find the grill slower than the one in the main oven.

Since I was widowed, I use it more than ever.

I don't cook very much, especially in summer, but I make casseroles and soups in my slow cooker in the winter, freeze them in portions and then microwave them. I would struggle to live without a microwave.

May be she lives in serviced accommodation without a kitchen, so never cooks.

Lmao.
Maybe Alice Beer needs to come down off her high horse and start living in the real world!
I wonder what her gas and electric bills are like, if she doesn't use a microwave?
Ohhhh, this has amused me.

Grammaretto Just go on google and type in instructions and the make and model of your microwave and they should be available.

I'm a new microwave convert
As a family we never wanted one but now I'm on my own and without a cooker since my Rayburn failed I bought a 2nd hand combi MW.
I often do a baked potato, porridge, hot chocolate, heat ready meals, leftovers and soften butter, warm milk and
I have recently discovered you can even ripen an avocado.
I would love to learn how to use the combi part but there are no instructions.

I have a new cooker now so I use this most of the time and food tastes better.

I use one more in the summer when the inherited AGA is off [ I feel obliged to fill that in winter though would never buy one myself] but have always had a microwave. I even make my sauces in it and lots of other things, especially vegetables.

I batch cook stews and curries in the oven and freeze portions for microwaving when I have evenings on my own. It gets a lot of use…

I have a microwave but don't use it very often, except to sometimes thaw things out or heat up a convenience meal. I can't imagine them falling out of favour for good.

I've got a Panasonic convection microwave, I use it for porridge, heating milk, defrosting meat, bread etc. Warming plates, heating oatbags. I use it alot.
I'd love to use it to cook in it as an oven but the temperature does not reach anywhere near what it says, I put an oven thermometer in whilst warming plates, the lowest temperature setting is 150°c it only reaches 80°c.
Are there any better?

We use ours daily. Heat drinks, make my porridge. Bake potatoes, etc.
I also make my cheese sauce in the microwave, saves on messy saucepan.

I am so glad my gas cooker broke down. I bought a combi oven instead and it is much more economical now energy prices are so high. I use the microwave part of it most days.

We have one, rarely use it as we think the gas hob cheaper.

you are more organised than me. I tend to get frozen meals out of the freezer when I need them, put them in in the microwave to defrost and cook while Icook the vegetables.

M0nica

NotSpaghetti How do you defrost and heat ready meals, bought or home made? Using the oven is so costly these days.

I have a ½ oven M0nica I use for smaller things and tend to defrost overnight in the fridge.

If I want to cook something from frozen I do it in this small oven.

Absolutely, Marmardoit I agree, there are things we can say on here that we wouldn't in RL. My family already think I'm bonkers anyway.
I shall continue to keep my distance when the microwave is on...just like you with your DGC, I bet.

I can’t remember not having a microwave. They are very handy in the kitchen. I have a combi-microwave and use it for cooking pies, oven chips, defrosting etc. wouldn’t be without it.

Well I think it’s the DM that’s out of date
Saturdays DT had a really good article about the role the microwave can play in keeping our energy bills down

To be fair to the DM, Maw, it was a feature on yesterday's This Morning show. Alice Beer seemed to think nobody used their microwave any more. I think the comments from there and Twitter proves she's way out of touch .