Well I think it’s the DM that’s out of date.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.