My wife makes oatmeal in the microwave but that is just boiling water. You could make it as well in a coffee maker just by pouring the boiling water over the oatmeal and letting in soften. We have done it in hotels. I "cooked" a hot dog in a beer can using water from a tea kettle in New Zealand but it wasn't like rolling it on a charcoal grille or even in a pan. It was just heated up.
Whole eggs either. That was the first thing I tried in my new microwave in 1971. I got my first lesson in cleaning it about 35 seconds later. It went off like a cherry bomb. You can make scrambled eggs in a microwave but I still prefer cooking them on the stove. They cook more evenly. You don't get some parts that are rubber and other parts that are still runny. It works if you stir it regularly but at a certain point "why", if you have a stove? You aren't really saving any time.
You know, I can soak oatmeal in water all day and it doesn't come out cooked. But 2.5 minutes in the microwave and it's cooked. Boiling is boiling, no matter how the heat arrives.
No, I don't cook steaks in the microwave. I'm not a monster.
Cindy Hamilton
Are you talking about instant oatmeal?
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If you start with boiling or near boiling water it works fine. Those tea kettles they have in UK and the UK colonies in the South Pacific will boil water really fast. They are about 2KW. (230v). A half liter beer can full will "cook" a hotdog but it is really just made hot, not cooked in the "seared on the outside" sense and you don't render that much fat out.
Good deal ;-) Roasts are not going to be that great either, No sear. I found out a while ago the best way to cook a beef rib roast is to sear it at 450 for a few minutes a pound, then turn the oven off and don't touch the door for a couple of hours. It comes out just like the ones at a good restaurant. My convection oven with a timer is perfect for that. Set it and forget it. I do a Butt the same way except I turn the heat down to 275 or so for
3-4 hours and cover it after the initial sear. Perfect pulled pork. The only thing better is to put it in the smoker all day.
I suppose. The stuff in the little envelope. I don't really eat oatmeal except in cookies and that is old style Quaker Oats blended. The "instant" is still is a 2-3 minute thing so I assumed that was what you were talking about. Same with rice. Instant might be OK in the MW. You just boil the water and add the rice, let it sit. Real rice takes 45 minutes to an hour simmering to cook, no matter how you do it so I am not sure what the microwave buys you. It might make sense if you were in a hotel or dorm room and that was all you had but just because there is a hammer in the kitchen, everything is not a nail. I prefer the right tool for the job and I am not afraid of the stove.
Who cooks rice on a stove? Are you some kind of Neanderthal? Get a rice cooker already. Billions of Asians can't be wrong.
What were you saying about the right tool for the job?
That is instant oatmeal, which is pre-cooked.
No. The quick oats where the cylindrical box says "1 minute". It requires a full minute of boiling to cook.
???? It takes 20 minutes. White rice. Brown does take longer.
Cindy Hamilton
Hot dogs (at least in the U.S.) come fully cooked. One could eat them cold out of the package if one wished.
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Billions of Asians eat a lot of rice at every meal. Rice cookers are terrible at cooking two small servings.
I'll stick to the stovetop.
Cindy Hamilton
Yes, obviously it is cooking. The vegetables go from raw to cooked.
The fact that a microwave is not good for most cooking doesn't mean that it's not good for cooking some things, eg vegetables and it does have the advantage of being able to do that quickly.
Not just the UK, I have one. It's 120V, about 1500 watts. It's perfect for making coffee, tea, cocoa. I also use it when I'm going to boil water for something like making spaghetti. I put half the water in a pot on the stove, half in the electric kettle. Gets to boiling water in half the time.
I don't have room for any more dedicated appliances.
My wife is a brown rice person. She thinks anything white is evil. She was even Keto for a while.
Again you are just talking about heating something up. You can eat steak right out of the package too but it tastes better if you sear it on the outside and render some of the fat.
I have one and I use it but I don't consider that cooking. It is just heating stuff up. If all I have is a microwave, I can do stuff with it but it is not my go to thing when I am actually cooking something. Maybe I just take food more seriously than some folks. If you are going to eat, it might as well be a treat. I like cooking.
My ex on the other hand thought fine cuisine was throwing some chicken in a Corning bowl, dumping in a can of mushroom soup and nuking it. Yummy.
They will correct you. The US caps anything with a 5-15 plug on it at
1440 watts but those 230v kettles are over 2kw and they go FAST. The main "burners" on my stove are 2.6KW. If you cover the pot, it boils the 3 or 4 quarts of water for spaghetti pretty fast. You do need pans that contact the heat well. (slick top stove and flat bottom pans)
Brown rice still retains the bran and germ, so you need to use more water and a longer cooking time than for white rice. Basic recipe: Rinse one cup of rice in a strainer and put into a pot with 2 cups of water. Cover and bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer on very low heat for 45 minutes. Let stand, covered, for 10 minutes before serving. Get more recipes for brown rice
The directions on the bag say pretty much the same thing.
Yeah what the f*ck do they know.
Yep. I always cook hotdogs on the grill. I like the exterior to be a deep, dark, chocolatey brown.
Cindy Hamilton
I like cooking, but microwaving frozen green beans is about all they deserve. Mind you, I'm in the "tender-crisp" camp, so there's not much difference between nuking and cooking them on the stove.
Fully cooked green beans with bacon in them is a different thing altogether. That requires the stovetop.
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