If it makes you feel any better, I learned this recipe from our esteemed @Qadgop_the_Mercotan years ago in another thread. My version is a smidgen simplified from his, but QtM deserves all the credit.
The very first reply to my post in that thread was somebody fussing at me / QtM for exploding eggs all over their microwave.
Yup. No 50% for him either.
Too late to edit previous post …
Though thank you for this neat trick on how to steam clean a mess out of a microwave more easily.
The last thing I blew up in mine was re-heating a bowl of chili that blorped a mighty blorp about 5 seconds before time was up. Talk about pissed!
And yes, I’d consciously dismissed the idea of using a cover. I keep a paper plate on top of the microwave for just that reason. But will I use it every time? Noooo. Some people are slow(er) learners.
FYI, at 50% power and with yolks pierced with my recipe I’ve never had an egg blorp over years of cooking one nearly every day.
THIS is the key to microwaving poached eggs. I’ve never blown one up since I adopted this practice.
I’ve found that simply hitting the “Rice” button on the Instant Pot (isn’t that available on all models?) works pretty well, and I don’t have to enter times or anything. Just put in about one and a quarter or one and a third times the water in volume, maybe a little less. I find I need a bit less water that stovetop methods. Hit the button, walk away, and get on with whatever else you’re cooking.
I’ve always just stuck a butter knife between the glass jar and the lid and given it a twist, perhaps in multiple places if needed. That’s literally always worked for me.
Oh yeah? Well, I’ve got a really, really nice perforated plastic cover that I never use either!
I have several perforated plastic covers. I use them all the time, they have made microwaving easier. I also use them to keep cats away from food left on the counter.
Oh they’ll figure out the ole flip-up-edge-of-lid technique.
Just give them time.
I’ve been using them for years. They may not be adequate to keep a hungry cat away from tuna. But they work really well to keep the cat from investigating the cookies, and even seem to keep the cat off the roast chicken until I get around to carving it.
Best microwave cover ever: it sticks to the oven ceiling with magnets so it’s always partially in place, even if you forget to lower it over the plate:
https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Microwave-Plastic-Cover-slots/dp/B078HS4B8R/ref=asc_df_B078HS4B8R/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241905613337&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5911014825044019515&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061301&hvtargid=pla-470043294453&psc=1
^ Neat. Thanks.
To think how scungey that would get, then, considering it would also go just as uncleaned as without, but at least the thing’s pop-offable to deal with.
Final toast thing, I swear - if toast isn’t toasted enough (even at the highest burn setting) just flip them upside down or switch them backwards (or sometimes both moves - whatever’s required) and pop back down for twenty-five atomic clock steamboats, and should end up good to go, with almost perfectly uniformly even dark-without-being-burnt toast.
I wish I could have said that in less words.
Right, just toss it in the dishwasher now and then.
That was me. {curtsey} I laughed out loud at @Dead_Cat 's post as soon as I recognized myself in it.
Sad thing was, I missed the large/bold 50% in your post this time around, too.
I gotta quit skimming recipes the way I skim paperbacks.
We have one of those plastic covers with vents. I took it out of the microwave before putting the eggs in. Not enough headsmack emojis in the world for this one.
Another quick and obvious (to most) cooking tip: with any new recipe, read it all the way to the end, twice, before starting. That way, not only are you less likely to miss crucial steps like this one, you’ll also discover if you are lacking the ability/equipment for any key steps. For example, of course all good recipes list the ingredients at the start, but not all list the utensils. Annoying to get to step 7 and find the pan you didn’t expect to need is in the dishwasher.
Cooking is fun if you have everything ready.
I also like to clean as I go. When I finish cooking a meal, most of my tools/measuring devices/etc are already washed and draining.
Ditto - I don’t even bother with a dishrack - just dry every item immediately after it’s cleaned, so that after the meal, all I’m looking at are a nice, already-cleaned-up sink and counter.
ETA: Waiting for a hot meal to cool down is also a good time to capitalize on cleaning any mess.
And that “him” was the first gendered pronoun I’ve used on SDMB in about 2 months. So of course I get it wrong. :smack:
I consciously recognized what I was doing but thought, Naah, I think it scans better as “No 50% for him” instead of 'No 50% for them". Well in this case it turns out to be “No soup for me.” 