It’s depressing as hell.
It’s only REALLY depressing if someone gives you that book as a holiday present.
If that’s the saddest thing you’ve ever seen, you’re a very lucky person.
Its only depressing if it applies, I for one, don’t own a microwave I just eat at the bar around the corner.
Why, you shouldn’t eat if you live alone?
I am gonna jump on kevja’s bandwagon here… If’ this is the saddest thing for you, congratulations!
I was just thinking “Hey, that’s pretty cool… waittaminnit!!! Alias thinks this is sad… how much do I suck???” Then I remembered that I don’t give a drowning rat’s ass what anybody thinks of me, and I already KNOW I’m a pathetic, lonely, loser-freak… So I ordered one for myself…
(now THAT’S sad! not even anybody around to give me one for a GIFT!)
It would be really depressing if it is given to you by your ex- girl/boy-friend.
If you live alone you should eat, but make it good, when I lived with 2 or 3 other people it was cheap food, now its good greasy dive food at the local(only) watering hole or I make something really good. Rack of lamb (which I don’t have to share), BBQ brisket(which I don’t have to share), smoked turkey(which I don’t have to share), Pork Roast (which I don’t have to share) etc…
Its the whole concept of microwave(lowest of the low) cooking for one(putting it one more step down). would be a truly sad gift, it says Mom(or whoever) has no faith in your cooking ability or your chances of finding someone to share your food with. A regular microwave cookbook should surfice, you can always reheat the leftovers, since, afterall, you DO have a microwave.
Even more so if they give it to you as a way of dumping you.
Microwaves are incredibly handy. I love cooking. I love cooking alone, I love cooking with someone else. But I don’t feel the need to make an occassion out of every meal. Sometimes, all you wanna do is eat and get on doing whatever it is you’re doing. Microwaves are handy like that.
Well, obviously it’s not REALLY the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. I do joke around, you know.
I guess I just thought it was sad (in a funny way). As was stated above, there is absolutely nothing wrong with cooking and eating alone. I just think if you’re going to do it, do it well! Microwave cooking!!! EW!!! There are cakes and pies in that picture for god’s sake. Come on people!
Its probably sadder that i would like a book like that.
Yeah, I suppose one could see that as kind of sad. After my engagement broke up several years ago, my wonderful, well-meaning father gave me a small book titled The Little Book of Cooking for One.
Still almost brings me to tears every time I see it; I really should throw it out… but it does have some good recipes in it!
Microwaves are for reheating things that couldn’t possibly be made worse.
I believe the author’s follow-up, Microwave Cooking for Entertainers, is much sadder.
It sounds like a book you would see on Milhouses dads bookshelf.
Maybe it’s embedded in my brain from well-intentioned parents, but isn’t it unhealthy to always eat microwaved food?
There certianly are sadder things, though I would hazard none more pathetic.
Sekhmett Kiba, it is if it’s the sort of processed convenience food that’s designed to be heated up in a microwave, but read food heated in a microwave isn’t any less nutritious than the same food heated in a conventional oven.
Industrial microwave ovens were the cause of some nutritional deficiencies, decades ago-- in a couple of hospital nurseries, no less. Those appliances were designed to keep numerous bottles of breastmilk/formula at a specified temperature continually, so it would always be ready to deliver to the hungry infants. Hours of exposure and repetitive heating/cooling caused the proteins in the milk to break down, which was a bad thing, so hospitals went back to heating milk/formula as required and the problem was solved.
Real. Real food.
Thanks Larry for the info (you learn something everyday)
But i was thinking mostly: the microwaves themselves.
I heard from one that it poses no threat.
Another told me it’s not ok if you stand near one while it’s cooking.
A third person told me it’s better to leave food out (after being microwaved) so the “waves” in the food would be as strong…(they were thinking about cellphone “waves”, how unhealthy to be subjected to them constantly).