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asyrol in food_porn

Microwave Cooking?

Oct 27, 2006 14:16

First of all, thank you for all of the great cottage cheese recipes! After a slight mishap involving half a tub of cottage cheese, some taco meat and my microwave I'm down to about 1 cup of cottage cheese left ( Read more... )

microwave, recipe request

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gefiltebitch October 27 2006, 18:17:18 UTC

i use my micro for the things you listed plus making microwave popcorn, but i can't say that i use it for anything else. it does bad things to meat.

asyrol October 27 2006, 18:24:56 UTC

yeah I'm wary of using it to cook meat products (unless it's part of leftovers I'm reheating)...

I've got an air popcorn popper that I use for popcorn :D

product_junkie October 27 2006, 18:42:47 UTC

If you're into poaching things (fish, poultry) you can totally do it in the microwave. You can also make polenta and risotto!

asyrol October 27 2006, 18:48:13 UTC

do you have recipes/instructions for the polenta or risotto?

sylvan October 27 2006, 18:27:30 UTC

Food Network's show "Ham on the Street" just did a microwave episode.

aenodia October 27 2006, 18:40:27 UTC

I use mine to microwave potatoes as well. I also use it to steam fish fillets.
Read the cookbook that came with the microwave and it should give you some ideas.
Last week I made baked apples in mine.

yavaniel October 27 2006, 19:17:39 UTC

ditto on the meat, unless it's reheating as you said. Microwaves are the best no fail way to cook rice. And being a big fancy machine, your's probably has a rice setting. Mine does. Just measure rice and water into a pyrex bowl and set on "rice" and let it go. IF I am cooking brown rice I have to let it go twice, but no overcooked rice and if it doesn't absorb all the water right away, just let it sit in the microwave for a while. So conveneint. And then just a couple of minutes more right before serving to get it hot again.

Great for cooking corn on the cob in the husks. Then it's real easy to shuck the husks and silks at the same time.

That's all I can think of right now.

anita_margarita October 27 2006, 20:08:45 UTC

I pretty much use mine as a time-saving convenience - melt chocolate/butter, soften butter, defrost frozen items, make gravy mixes, reheat stuff.

When we got our first microwave, we tried cooking various things in it like chicken, and we just didn't think the results were all that wonderful.