Heating up a dinner

Make sure it's thoroughly heated through.
A meat thermometer is useful.

So is the tender inside of my mouth!

It's all gone. Heated in the old micro - bish bash bosh.
I et it.

Microwave it missA but keep
An eye o. It and mix it /move it around etc Bon appetit

She's gobbled it all up 😁
And didn't share it

I've got me afters yet...
Homemade, just how my mum used to do it, bread pud!!

Do not cover food in a microwave with cling film. Cling film contains materials that we should not ingest. OK for wrapping food in when it is cold to put in the fridge or on the side, but never, never in a microwave.

Use a plastic cover sold for the purpose or simply put another plate upside down over the plate you are heating while you microwave it.

MissAdventure

Thank you.

My mum used to do some elaborate thing with my dad's dinner on a plate, on top of a saucepan of water, with a tea teatowel over the top of it all.

My mum did this as well.
Microwaves are good for re-heating food

MissAdventure

I've got me afters yet...
Homemade, just how my mum used to do it, bread pud!!

Is that bread pudding or bread and butter pudding with an egg custard bottom?

If it'bread pushing, DH said to save him some.
If it's bread and butter pudding, I'll be over in 5!

(5 hours that is)

Pushing?

Pudding.
I need an editor.

I'll only answer if you promise not to call me 'custard bottom' again.

I didn't make it.
My upstairs neighbour did.

The one I frequently moan about. greedy hypocrite that I am

I mostly use the microwave, but sometimes the toaster oven if it is something that I don't like to get soggy. Pizza slices for instance, are better in the toaster oven.

My mum used to do this with my Sunday dinner when I'd had a late night and had a lie in. She used a pan lid instead of a teatowel though. Funnily enough the dinner always tasted amazing.

The microwave cover lid is useful.

MissA I reheat my dinner everyday in the oven for a hour at 200°. Because of health can't cook fresh meal everyday. So I make a large stew of some sort once a week it lasts 6 dinners . Once cooked put into oven proof dishes and leave in the fridge . I always add extra water to it before reheating. Any extra veg I want I do from frozen I put it in foil with some water and wrap tightly. It cooks while my dinner reheats. I make enough soup for 6 dinners but reheat that on the hob with extra water as I blitz my soup. I have an induction hob so takes 2 mins to bring it to the boil. My porridge is cooked in the microwave as I can't stir a pot. I lose control of the spoon. Been cooking this way for 5 years.

I always cook from scratch I don't eat meat but chicken and either Quorn sausages, mince or chicken pieces. Soups are red lentil based with lots of veg. Dinners usually have pearl barley but sometimes use pasta instead just for the last 20 mins of cooking.

As my health varies from day to day it means I always have a heathly lunch and dinner in the fridge .

Virtually all my meals are heated in the microwave as I get in late from work and really can't be bothered to start cooking.
I usually batch cook at weekends, freeze and then take out what I want for the evening.

If taken straight from the fridge, I use low temperature for a few minutes, stir it, then whack it on high for a couple of minutes.
If you worry if it's hot enough you can buy food thermometers very cheap to check the temperature.