Is 500w for an oven enough to cook burgers?

It's a different food. Like bacon is a different food to pork.

For a 300g potato, stab all over with a fork and place asymmetrically on a plate in the microwave. Zap for 4 minutes [1]. Turn over. Zap for another 4 minutes [1]. Leave to stand in the microwave for 2 minutes. Cut open, break up with a fork, add salt and butter. Add grated cheese and return to the microwave for half a minute to melt it. If you want baked beans, you can start the heating while melting the cheese.

Alternatively do the 4 * 4 in the microwave for a nice edible potato, and then do it for another 2-4 minutes in the air fryer to crisp up the skin.

At the moment I am not bothering with the extra crisping up because they are so nice with the skins still relatively soft.

Cheers

Dave R

Chacun a son goût...

When the Aga is on - if I am in a hurry - 2 mins in the micro before the Aga top oven...

My smaller air fryer (asda's smallest) is about that wattage and is adequate for cooking 1/4 lb burgers.

I have some here, which came from Cornwall.

So what, exactly, are "baby potatoes"? They are (more or less) like "new potatoes" but are available all the year round. They can't all be flown in from abroad. Have they found a combination of temperature and humidity that preserves the new crop for many months?

Baby potatoes are either varieties that are naturally small, or immature specimens harvested ahead of time

This was 65 years ago:-)

Pass. As TNP says, anything harvested early will be small!

You could look at *The British Potato Variety Database* for varietal characteristics.

Seed potato availability can be impacted by commercial interests:-( My caterer likes *Ratte* salad potatoes. This Spring, none in stock from my usual sources but lots advertised on E bay!

Baby potatoes are just small potatoes - just filtered from a crop of larger size potatoes. Most of the supermarkets seem to sell them. They just cook faster - boiled with their skins on - after cooking I add a knob of butter and a slight sprinkling of dried mixed herbs.

Some varieties never get very big.

Mint. They all need mint

AIUI, Jersey Royals got their flavour because the farmers used to spread seaweed, called vraic, on the fields, as fertiliser. When artificial fertilisers came along, the flavour deteriorated, and they're now no different to any small potato. There is a postage stamp issued in the late 1940's or early 1950's I think, George VI, showing the gathering of seaweed.

I have just found a picture of that oven. The oven looks quite small, and that is the significant thing. All that is needed for cooking is to add more heat inside than the oven loses to the space around it. It isn't the amount of watts it is the temperature reached that is important for cooking burgers, even frozen ones.

The 500W only has to heat a small space so it might take a bit longer than a higher wattage element to get the interior to the temperature for cooking, but it is more than enough to keep the temperature inside at cooking temperature once it has heated up.

A brand new one for £15 looks a bargain. I would buy it.

Too late. It's gone!