# Cooking with a microwave

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865 "2024-01-30T13:44:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865/81 "2024-02-04T02:54:26Z")

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I don’t know. I kind of enjoy the old ritual of putting my scrambled eggs into the microwave, giving things a couple of minutes, pulling the bowl out and scraping the done parts off the sides, then putting the bowl back in and finishing it all off.

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**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865/82 "2024-02-04T07:08:31Z")

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When my parents got a microwave in the early 80s, we tried some of the recipes. I can still remember the taste of the eggs. Which is why I never cook eggs in a microwave.

Best uses for a microwave? Heat up home-canned green beans (remove lid and just put the entire jar in the microwave) and heating up Krispy Kreme donuts (10-12 seconds, depending on whether it’s filled).

Heating up leftovers also work, especially after Thanksgiving.

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865/83 "2024-02-05T00:45:22Z")

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Walmart carries a closed cover version

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865/84 "2024-02-05T01:30:47Z")

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To add another note to the topic, although a microwave typically does a crappy job of actual cooking, its utility for reheating either refrigerated leftovers or many (not all) frozen foods is so great that it’s my #1 most important countertop appliance. It’s a very rare day that I don’t use it at least once.

Mine is quite an old Panasonic that was a replacement for the first microwave I bought as a youngster, so it’s just the second microwave I’ve ever owned and I’m no spring chicken. I’m surprised it’s still working. If it ever broke I’d be out in a flash to get a new one.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-a-microwave/996865/85 "2024-02-05T03:50:01Z")

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I still have one that we bought in 1998 or so. When I retired in fall of 2022 I left the microwave I had in my office for the next occupant. I don’t remember when I bought it, but I started working there in the fall of 2000 so it was older than that.

I wish I’d had as much luck with the over-the-range microwaves, but at least we’ve had another around to pick up the slack.

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