What do you use microwaves for? It's okay, be honest.
>scrambled eggs
>oatmeal
>frozen veggies
>rice
>>7462774
How do you make your scrambled eggs? Sounds like they'd be dry, but you never know I guess.
I don't have one. It would be handy on the odd occasion, but mostly it would be taking up more space than it's worth.
>>7462774
Reheating things, melting butter, cooking bags of frozen vegetables. That's pretty much it.
>>7462779
You just stir them every ~30 seconds. It's very easy to overcook them and they end up dry. But if you do it right they can be nice and creamy.
>>7462774
Imagine them having sex.
soup, reheating leftovers, popcorn.
thats it because that is all they are good for.
breadslice covered in gruyere. nuke. fresh pepper.
is that the guy from the cheerleader picture?
Kinda looks like him.
>>7462774
Depending on what kind of leftovers I'll use the microwave to heat them up.. That's it. People using the microwave for anything else is a fucking fat ass.
>>7462774
Now this pic's just dishonest.
>>7462774
Anything that's rich in water.
>>7463112
>People are being retarded ITT, the only thing it's a crime to microwave is steak
Did you read any of the posts, or just take a guess as to what they may say?
>>7463121
you don't really need to read a thread on /ck/ to know that people are being retarded in it
>>7463131
Then don't post. Go for a walk or do something worthwhile. There's no point writing anything at all if you're just expressing opinions without paying attention to anything.
>>7462774
Ice cream
Leftovers, canned veggies, frozen burritos (SO, not me ), melting butter for a recipie, or sometimes I like to take a bolillo roll and put a little butter inside and microwave it for >30 sec. If it weren't for the fact that I like to go to restaurants and take home half my plate, I could live without a microwave forever.
>>7463133
>Go to any board on 4chan
>Go to any thread on this board
>Don't read thread, just post about the large amount of shitpost and content unrelated to board/thread
Now, look on what board you are and read thread. You are most likely in the right.
4chan isn't known for it's high signal/noise ratio.
Back on topic. I have a multi-funtion oven. Microwave, grill, fan-circulated-heat or whatever you call it. (Plus unfreezing, aka microwave on low setting, and a few settings to mix heating methods that I never use.)
I heat with the microwave, cook with oven or grill. Some microwavable meals brand sell undercooked things and ask for a longer heating time, not sure it counts.
I "steam" spinach bags sometimes. I have a 3€ bamboo thing for actual steaming.
I use it to melt butter. That's it, I think.
I only really use it for reheating leftovers and cooking up a bowl of oatmeal.
mostly reheating things or melting cheese on sandwiches
the only things i really cook in there are poached eggs
>>7462808
This is my fetish
>>7462774
I like to make big vats of chilli con carne or bolognase then freeze them in portions and reheat with the microwave when I want them.
>>7462774
Sterilizing kitchen sponges...
>>7463721
I call bs. A few minutes in the micro will not cook a whole chicken.
>>7462774
Does she do porn?
If I had one I may use if to reheat leftovers but I can do that in the oven. desu I can't think of a reason to have one. I didn't get one when I moved out because of lack of space but now I wouldn't need one.
My microwave is really good at defrosting meat quickly. When I'm short on time I'll pop it in, put the type of meat and how much it weighs in, and next thing you know you've got a perfectly defrosted chicken breast in 8 minutes. I used to never do it because my old microwave would always cook the meat and leave other parts frozen solid, but this one has really impressed me.
Microwaved sweet potato = goat
I typically use mine for steak tartare and ceviche. Requires delicate technique, though.
>>7462774
Frozen preprepared stuff when I'm feeling lazy, steam in bag vegetables if I'm serving them by themselves, par cooking stuff (especially potatoes, occasionally fully cooking potatoes when I'm feeling lazy and want to eat soon.
>>7462774
Poaching eggs, reheating, and softening hard bread.
I'm a lazy bastard.
>>7462774
when i had one i pretty much used it to reheat coffee on the odd occasion it got room temperature. i gave it away.
>>7462774
I don't have a microwave, no space in my kitchen. I use pic related instead, haven't looked back.
>>7462774
Those measurements are wrong. If she's 6', how can he be 5'11"? More like 4'11".
i actually don't own one, should i?
>>7462774
The only thing it's meant for: reheating food.
Oh, and steaming broccoli that comes in those steamable bags, but don't tell anyone.
>>7464567
Both have their place, if you've got the space.
Reheating soup or anything mostly water-based would be particularly difficult in a toaster oven.
Alternatively, you could throw it in a pan on the stove, but then you're dirtying more dishes.
I got rid of my microwave and replaced it with a toaster oven. There's really nothing culinary I could do with a microwave that I can't reproduce with the toaster and my stove/oven. The only thing I can't do now is heat up the gel pack I put on sore muscles.
I'm really glad I got rid of it, because I recently moved to a new apartment and there's significantly less counter space than in my old one. The microwave took up way too much room for something I used like once a week to heat up leftovers.
>>7464605
I probably wouldn't buy one even if I did have the space now that I'm used to not having one. It has forced me to become a little better at cooking. Cleaning a small sauce pan immediately after using it to heat up soup is not much of an inconvenience to me, hell if I'm eating alone I'll just eat out of the pan.
I only microwave beverages
Mostly coffee that has become cold
Sometimes tea
My microwave sees less than 5 minutes of use a day
That's it.
I have a intense dislike of any food being microwaved
My mom would microwave EVERYTHING, bacon, vegetables, "tv diners" everything was horrible tasted like shit.
I'll never microwave food.
>>7464585
It's a meme you dip
I microwave garlic bread, I'm not really into eating it toasted but heating it this way makes it warm and very soft. Plus if the bread has anything on top like oil or butter it melts into it.
my roommates have one, but i never use it, come to think of it. i suppose I could make sweet potatoes in it.
>>7464585
Angry manlet pls go
Cooking rice. Stick water and rice in a bowl. Cover. Hit "rice" button. Bam, perfect rice every time
>>7462774
>scrambled eggs
I'm not upset with you anon, i just want to know how you do it
>>7462781
>I don't have one. It would be handy on the odd occasion, but mostly it would be taking up more space than it's worth.
This.
Every time I think about getting one, I ask myself why, and can't come up with a good answer.
>>7467417
Scramble eggs in a bowl. Microwave 30 seconds and stir. Repeat until desired consistency.
Reheating leftovers would be the biggest use. Then there's warming drinks, melting butter, frozen vegetables, the occasional drunken frozen treat (I'm looking at you White Castle jalapeno sliders), par cooking things like potatoes. I'm sure there are more uses, but just being able to reheat leftovers in about a minute is the best reason whereas it would take about 15 to preheat and properly get something up to temperature using most other things.
Side note: a nifty trick for some frozen things like frozen egg rolls/burritos/pizza bits would be to nuke them until kind of warm, then finish them under a broiler flipping once. As good as the oven, but takes less than half the time.
>>7462774
Besides hotpockets and popcorn, I use it heat up sauces.
heating up milk and stock so I don't shock my roux. It takes up one less pan which is nice
it makes a super convenient kitchen timer which no one else mentioned else ITT
Defrosting or reheating. Literally nothing else.
>>7462774
Reheat food, boil water for tea, melt butter, defrost meat got one with a good sensor, doesn't give meat an off smell or taste like other microwaves I've used in the past, buy sandwich brown bags and add popcorn kernels and make my own ghetto microwavable popcorn for pennies.
I heat up corn tortillas fast in a microwave, 30secs for each corn tortilla. A quick snack with corn tortillas I make a cheese sandwich with 2 corn tortillas and cheese, nuke for about 1 1/2min, the cheese melts and some of the fat absorbs into the tortillas and toasts them up real good, fast good snack.
Defrosting meat and reheating coffee mostly. Sometimes I reheat certain meals with it too.
On a rare occasion I'll make potatoes in the microwave (they're almost as good as oven baked and much quicker).
>>7462781
>taking up space
pfff, you've never seen one installed above the stove?
>>7462774
melt butter, heat milk up, oats, reheat food
>>7468487
Your kitchen has to be built specifically for those.
>>7462774
I literally just use the microwave for oatmeal
>boil water for tea (faster than stove, don't have electric kettle)
>reheat what my mom cooked for me in single serving
>make popcorn
>melt chocolate
>make one egg mug cake to drown my sorrows of student life
About everything
Microwave ovens are patrician tier
>>7462774
meatballs
I like to heat them for like 9 minutes. it turns them all soggy and slightly burned on the outside. god tier.
Pre-cooking raw potatoes for frying. Works wonders.
Killing hamsters. It's just a hobby of mine.
>>7462774
I use it to heat sauce for noodles that I bought in jars. Feels like a waste to that on a stove top.
>>7462774
Did a manlet make this pic
