Microwaves been out of fashion?

henetha

I can't believe how daft this is. Unless I've completely lost the plot. I've had one for many years, can't recall how long.
I use mine almost every day. But I will admit to being slightly wary of it and always stand well back in case the 'waves' escape and zap me. I used to have a little machine which told me if this was happening.
If microwaves are out of fashion then so am I.

I never allowed my DC into the kitchen when we first had one. DH thought I was being ridiculous. I know I was but it hasn't stopped me doing just the same when the DGC come to visit. I can admit to that on here but not in RL!

I have never had a microwave but I thought I was the one out of step. It used to be recommended for dementia sufferers living alone as they couldn’t burn the house down. I did use one in Florida and managed to blacken the chicken portions rendering them inedible and a horrible stench.

I was surprised however when my young university bar staff didn’t really know how to use the microwave and her rented flat in London has a combi oven and hob but no microwave.

Mine's a combi. I use it every day. What planet is Alice Beer on? (I think we know what planet the DM is on).

I do so much with mine - and I know others use theirs even more. Defrosting warming up drinks. Heating tins of soup, cutting down on using the oven by starting cooking things in the micro wave before transferring them to the oven- baked potatoes, chicken pieces, even at times, fruit crumbles, cooking vegetables, melting chocolate or butter.

My microwave is situated in a corner, where you do not tend to standwhen it is on, but while I am aware of the damage microwaves can do, I have yet to hear of anyone being injured in anyway using a normal domestic microwave.

I've got the cheapest, most basic of microwaves. I occasionally defrost chicken portions in it, but don't use it for anything else.

I have used one since the late 70`s.
My parents had a public house and heated food up in them for the workers at lunch time etc,and it was massive in comparison to todays ones.
And i have had one ever since.

In industry I believe you need to have the seals checked every so often?
I know when I worked in a kitchen years ago someone came out to check it.

I can't believe how daft this is. Unless I've completely lost the plot. I've had one for many years, can't recall how long.
I use mine almost every day. But I will admit to being slightly wary of it and always stand well back in case the 'waves' escape and zap me. I used to have a little machine which told me if this was happening.
If microwaves are out of fashion then so am I.

Callistemon21 that's exactly what I do since.
I use my slow-cooker quite a lot in the winter tbh.

I cooked a whole roast beef dinner on Sunday using my convection/microwave and just the hop and slow cooker. Just to see if it can be done.
I think I'll stick with this method to save the cost of heating the big oven, but I've no way of knowing if it saved electricity or not.

any = many

Use mine at least 3 times a day. Would be easier to count how many times I have used my conventional oven over to last 20 years.

NotSpaghetti

I have only ever used a microwave for dying wool and for heating the Christmas pudding.

Haven't dyed wool for years so got rid.

I reheat the Christmas pudding in the slow cooker.

Someone caught his house on fire reheating one in the microwave,
Not that that puts me off using mine for any other things.

this dotty dumbo ? ? ?

I had heard of her I think - she used to be on the telly. I do remember the name and what she looked like but can't remember anything she ever said or did.

Maw -great post. I can remember my friend (one of the worst cooks in the world), who used to 'hide' her mw away in her utility room. No idea why.......She also had a great big Aga in which she always successfully either undercooked or burned everything.

I was fortunate enough to have a microwave from mid-70's - just three models on sale when we decided to get one (hubbie was then working in a catering environment, where they had been in used or sometime). Now have a combi one. Very few days it is not in use I(and I am by myself). Saves so much money and time in cooing (eg: piece of salmon cooked to perfection in that in under three minutes).

There was a similar article in the weekend papers. I have to confess I hate the microwave but I will be using more now. As Nigella says ' pop it in the mee-cro-wavee'

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

I have only ever used a microwave for dying wool and for heating the Christmas pudding.

Haven't dyed wool for years so got rid.

Love the epithet dotty dumbo ! M0nica - classic!

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.

Faster, easier, cheaper: it’s time to start the microwave revolution
Using a microwave instead of an electric cooker could save you £286 a year. Isn’t it time you made the switch, asks Xanthe Clay
Most of us own a microwave: anything between 80 and 95 per cent of UK households (estimates vary) have one. So why are we such terrible snobs about them? They are often hidden away, or dismissed as somewhere to heat ready meals. Gastronomes take pride in doing without one, like a quasi-intellectual gloating about not having a TV. It’s that vegan joke rebooted: how do you know that the cook doesn’t have a microwave? Because they’ll tell you
Well, it’s time to wake up to the power of the microwave. Or rather, the lack of power that it uses, compared with conventional cooking methods. With energy costs spiralling to unthinkable levels, it seems that the microwave’s moment has come. Not before time, according to environmental campaigners, who have been pointing out for years that we need to think harder about how we use energy.

I was given a wonderful all-singing, all-dancing one in the 80’s/early 90’s by my sister in law who secretly wanted one but thought it would be a good idea for me (a keen cook) to sort of trial the idea for her!
It eventually bit the dust just 4 years ago but its successor is used several times a day - hot milk for coffee, cooking fish and some veggies, reheating (obviously) defrosting, even cooking bacon on kitchen paper.

Use my microwave 2 or 3 times a day - and counting.

I had my first one around 1979/80, and i have wondered how I managed without it almost from Day 1

I have just looked this dotty dumbo up online and her remarks seem to have been greeted with disbelief by everyone who heard or read about it.

I have had one since the early 1980s and would not be without it. I love scrambled eggs cooked in it, little washing up afterwards. Easy to work, cheap to run, easily cleaned what is there not to like?

Hithere

Not sure in which dimension the writer of the article lives in

Certainly not the same dimension that most of us appear to live in.

Maybe the writer has food delivered and / or eats out a lot? I've no clue why she's come to this conclusion!

I use mine all the time, cooking, reheating meals and heating up my Hottie hot water bottle. I think it’s the opposite - with the cost of fuel crisis they are coming into their own as the cheapest way of cooking.

I don’t use mine as much as I should. I do intend to start using it more with energy prices. Currently I use it for porridge,jacket potatoes,scrambled egg and warming milk.