How can people be so daft at using a microwave grill ...

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Every house on the street that I live on came with an uber high end 1000w microwave grill built into the kitchen units, along with an oven underneath.

The microwave also comes with a special metallic plate to use with the grill setting, and all the foods that can be cooked in the thing are written on a long sticker on the inside of the microwave door - pizzas, chips, fish, chicken, burgers etc, probably the only thing that cant be done is a whole chicken or turkey obviously.

You name anything that can be bought frozen from a supermarket, you can stick it onto the microwave grill, push one button that says 'crisp' to activate the right function, set the time and viola, it cooks, easy peasy.

Neither my dad, mum, nor brother can figure out how to do this, they see me cooking everything I eat in the microwave on a metallic plate, and they are absolutely astonished and dumbfounded as to how I could possibly cook my frozen meats, chips, veggie burgers and waffles in the microwave instead of having to heat up the oven everytime.

I always tell them very simply - 'All you do is push the 'crisp' button, set the time according to the grill instructions on the box, and put your food on the grill tray'.

So today I was in the kitchen grabbing a drink, and my mum started off a conversation that someones 24 year old son had just returned home from wherever, and his mum was having to cook everything for him (like, seriously?). Apparantly she wanted to figure out how her son could use the microwave to cook his own food like I do, and she had my mum to ask me how I do it.

My mum asked me again - 'How do you cook your food in the microwave? So and so wants to know because shes fed up of cooking food everyday for her son who just came back home'.

I chortled, I couldnt contain myself, I literally raged at the immense level of stupidity found among the three people, two mothers who cant understand how to push one button on a microwave, and some other person around my age who still cant feed himself or simply figure out how to use the grill on his own and still requires his mother to feed him?

YOU PRESS JUST ONE BUTTON!!!! How many times do I have to stand in front of the silly bints and go 'look, this button here, press it, look, my food on this tray, put it inside the microwave, look, the time required is written on the box, turn the dial to that time and it cooks!'.

And they are still like 'Durrrrrr herpderp, but just how and what are you doing? How are you cooking your food in the microwave, why cant you cook some of your stuff for us because we cant figure out how to use the microwave grill ourselves :confused:'

Some people are just a waste of brain cells.
 
Ok, slightly redeemed yourself;)

i don't think you're going to find much love for microwaves in here though! They're certainly useful but I don't really use them beyond defrosting/reheating and wouldn't particularly want to either, regardless of how easy it is. I enjoy cooking too much:)

Yea thats fine, but here Im talking about a 24 year old who cant / wont cook anything for himself, and expects his mother to do it all for him, and she was fed up to the point that she asked for my help on how I cook my own food in the microwave?

I dont expect anyone else to cook for me, and I dont like cooking so I figured out how to use the microwave grill, and my life changed forever! Its so simple and unbelievably convenient :)

This is what I normally eat:

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And either Birds Eye Omega 3 fish fingers, 100% chicken fillets, or Vegetable Quarter Pounders full of carrot, sweetcorn, brocolli and peas. And occasionally eggs, pasta, or wholemeal bread.

Cereal, cakes, bananas, cucumbers and yogurt / muller rice pots too ofc, yummers.
 
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Never in a million years will potatoes come out the same in the microwave as they do when cooked properly. If they do, you are seriously doing it wrong.

I'd love to see some of your microwave-cooked potatoes.

Its not a microwave, it's a microwave grill!

It cooks EVERYTHING that an oven can cook, except for a whole chicken / turkey.

It cooks with a grill and a plate that heats up to a skin burning temperature in under 2 minutes, it cooks both the top and bottom of the food evenly without having to flip! Awesome convenience.

I've never tried making whole potatoes though, a sack of frozen chips is all I need, but I suppose I could try it out. The problem is that all the recipes you find for 'Microwave potatoes' are microwave recipes, not microwave grill recipes, so I have no idea how long to leave them in for and dont want to burn anything.

Pre-packed vacuum veg. Not good.

Get some fresh stuff in and cook it properly man! Cheaper, tastier and healthier. ;)

This is a joke right? Veg that has been frozen after picking is fresher than fresh veg. Frozen steam fresh vegetables are a lot fresher and tastier than stuff from the veg isle.

Whats wrong exactly with veg thats been picked, frozen within 24-48 hours, and packed air tight so it cant get any contaminants?

Steaming veg in the microwave is also the healthiest method of cooking vegetables as they cook in their own steam and maintain more nutrients than even stir fried veg does.
 
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Freezing it maintains the freshness?

Sticiking vegetables in the veg isle causes the freshness to degrade.

The microwave grill cooks perfect spuds! I washed it, pricked it, and cooked it for 20 mins turning every 5, then added garlic butter, cheese and pepper, and microwave on 1000w for 1 minute :)

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Was nice and crispy on the outside, soft and ultra nom on the inside. I want to make another one now, but I cant have that many carbs.
 
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Edam is my favorite cheese, and the little babybels stay nice and soft.

A big block of edam starts to go dry as soon as its opened, and edam slices are already dry as soon as you open the pack.
 
24 and lacking the ability to turn a dial and press a button? whatduhhell? :s

Oh I forgot about that guy ...

Both him and his mother are out somewhere, and I seriously have no idea why but my mum did his shopping for him and bought a load of £1 microwave burgers, cheese slices and turkey ham and stuck it in our fridge?

I pretty much asked who it was for and she said 'Oh its so and so's shopping thats come back from uni, but he goes back on friday and none of them are in to get his shopping so I did it'.

W.T.F??? :eek:

Yes, its the same guy, how the hell did they get my mom to do his shopping and try to get me to teach him how to make his own food???
 
False. Your veg may be frozen but it is treated. It also could well have been sitting around in its 'fresh' frozen state for months.

It could be, but I can usually tell by the flavor, these ones I get are very fresh and tastier than normal veg.

Birds Eye frozen veg and other steamfresh products are also very healthy and frozen very quickly after picking.

Even if its been frozen for months, it retains it freshness far longer than chilled or room temperature vegetables do.

The other benefit of frozen veg is that it stays fresh for a lot longer, and doesnt expire as quickly as non frozen veg does, thats actually why I started getting it because I'm fed up of fresh veg going off too quickly.

Veg that has been frozen for months is still fresher than veg that has been chilled for 5 days.
 
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