Microwave cooking

Thank you for all the tips - I do cook fish in it but I don't use the defrost at all as I'm worried about the food safety angle. I'm going to try vegetables in kit. I seem to remember I used to cook them in a bag which saved washing up saucepans and they wert waterlogged. I still resent the room it takes up on the work top and their is nowhere else for it to go. If I'm ever widowed it will still be the first thing in the skip.

As I have a small kitchen, the microwave doubles as a bread bin! It is a nuisance having to empty it every time I want to use it though.

Shysal, sounds like a chap I saw on TV last night. He doesn't cook, so his pristine oven is used to store his

Yes i only use mine for reheating or making scrambled eggs,and also its good for starting baked spuds before i put them in main oven as they come out nice and fluffy.

Shysal that reminds me that, two days after our housesitters left last month, my husband opened the microwave to heat his milk for coffee and found 2 stale loaves of bread.

I could live without one but handy for quick jacket potatoes, frozen peas, reheating tea, heating ready meals and probably most of all warming up my wheat bag. Tried cauliflower (as recommended above) the other day which worked well. One of my daughters talked me out of doing without one many years ago and it has just become part of the kitchen equipment.

I don't have one and don't want one either. I prefer to cook from scratch and if we do have ready meals it only takes 25 minutes to cook them in the oven. We have enough other stuff taking up worktop space!

When we had the kitchen replaced last year they had to remove my very old combination microwave which I used on a daily basis as it wouldn't fit in the new units - we bought a small built in ones which I hate, It's not big enough to even get a plate in so I bought a new combi a few weeks ago to use in the utility room which I love. It has no turntable and 2 shelves so great for oven use but I use the microwave for all sorts - reheating, cooking, defrosting. The one in the kitchen is ok for heating a bowl of peas!