What kind of food can be prepared in a microwave?

[Aereal]

Hello,

I wonder what kind of food can be prepared using a microwave? Also, it would be great if you could specify the meals that can not be prepared in the microwave. Finally, of high importance is the list of stuff that should never, under no circumstances appear inside the device!

Can you help me?
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[Yankee]

Hi aereal

The very first thing I ever attempted to do with a microwave (about 20 years ago) was to bake a potato. Having never had or used a microwave oven before that, I had no idea how long it might take to "zap" a potato -- I only knew that it was supposed to be much faster. Needless to say, I over-estimated the length of time required. The potato exploded and the innards ended up -- in varying degrees of disintegration -- all over the inside of my brand new microwave.

Nowadays, I do use the microwave to bake potatoes sometimes. I also use it to thaw and heat frozen vegetables and to thaw frozen meats. But, I don't like actually cooking meat that way. Microwaves are great for making popcorn and heating most any type of liquid. They're terrible for baking cakes and bread -- at least I've never had much luck with those sorts of things.

Have you ever had one, aereal? What's your story?

Amy

[FangFang]

Hiya,
In fact we have different customs. We like to eat fried foods(It would be very dangerous to use a microwave for heating fried meals), better to use pans or other pots.
I tried to use my microwave to bake spicy chicken wings, you have to turn them over and over for not to burn all(a little troublesome). Anyway it tasted not bad, but I think an oven must be better than a microwave if you want to make nice foods.
You are the chef!

[Aereal]

[Aereal]

[NinaZara]

[Prezbucky]

Good:

- instant oatmeal/Malto Meal/Cream of Wheat (etc.)
- leftover spaghetti/pasta (dries it out just a bit, which I like)
- hot dogs/bratwurst (etc.)

Bad:

- leftover fast food burgers/other sandwiches (it's best to eat them when they're "fresh")
- fried chicken (turns to rubber)
- metal
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[Aereal]

NinaZara,
Thanks for a good link! That seems interesting

prezbucky,
it's a pity that microwave is bad for metal: I like boiled spoons, fried knifes and baked forks so much...
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[Prezbucky]

aereal

Lots of food comes in metal containers... you have to put such items in microwave-safe dishes.
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[Aereal]

[Jamie (K)]

At Easter time, the best thing to cook in the microwave is Marshmallow Peeps. They're colorful little baby chicks (and sometimes bunnies) made of marshmallow, and they only come out at Easter. Of course, they're not meant to be cooked, but microwaving them is great fun. They inflate to many times their original size -- looking absolutely hilarious, like a big monster from a Japanese cartoon -- and then they deflate with a big splat! After they've deflated, if you haven't burnt them (which happens after about two minutes, I believe), they taste like an ordinary marshmallow toasted over a campfire.

This process is extra funny if your microwave oven has a rotating turntable in it that allows you to see all sides of the marshmallow "monster" as it bloats up. I suppose this will also work on the candy called "circus peanuts", but it wouldn't be as funny.

When you do this, make sure there are children around, because they go into hysterics and just love it. However, a child about 2 1/2 or 3 years old might find the whole thing scary.

[Aereal]

[NinaZara]