JL Johnson 4d ago

After weeks of thinking about it way too much, we finally bought a microwave. Did you know Panasonic and LG are the only big brands that make their own? Everyone else outsources to one big company that mostly uses the same innards.

Also if you are one of the 0.001% of folks (like me) who adjust the cook power, inverter tech is actually value added. Yay!

Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 Also, I PROGRAM my microwave. For example, oatmeal is 2:30 on high followed by 5:00 at 40%.
Show threadCOD4d ago
@mlanger @User47 Everything in a microwave is cooked on full power in increments of 30 seconds using the +30 seconds button. The rest of the buttons are useless
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@chrisod @User47 Not in my world. Although I don't use any of the buttons labeled with food names.
Show threadJL Johnson 4d ago
@mlanger @chrisod also apparently the new sensors are good and use steam as a pretty accurate indication of “doneness” for a lot of stuff.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago
@User47 @chrisod My very first microwave, which I got as a housewarming gift in the mid 1980s, had a temperature probe that could be stuck into a roast and automatically turn off the microwave at a predetermined temperature. It was absolutely perfect for warming milk or water in preparation for making bread. It was also incredibly underpowered by today's standards and although I loved it and took it with me when I moved to Washington, I wound up giving it away on craigslist.
Show threadCOD
@mlanger @User47 My parents bought one in 81 or 82 that weighed about 50 pounds. People thought it was the future of cooking and that we'd be eating nothing but microwaved food by 1990. I took that microwave to college. It pulled so much power I had to yell to my frat house neighbor to turn off his space heater before I used it, or it would blow the fuse. And by fuse, I mean a literal glass fuse. The frat house predated circuit breakers, or insulation for that matter.
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Show threadMaria Langer | 📝🛥️💎4d ago

@chrisod @User47 Oh, those were the days!

I actually have a few microwave cookbooks dating back from those days. There are a few recipes that I still turn to. One is for an excellent Greek pastichio. Another is for chicken okra gumbo where every single component is made inside the microwave, including the cooked chicken and chicken broth.