What do you mainly use the microwave for ?

Question

Do you use it more often for re-heating or for cooking? I am using it mostly for re -heating food or making beverages. An expensive gadget to use mainly for heating !
Interested to hear from others.

Answer 1

I love my microwave. I live in a third-floor attic apartment, and it just gets too hot up here to cook come summertime, unless I use the microwave.

Even in the winter I use mine a lot for cooking vegetables, you don't use as much water and they taste sooo fresh, even frozen veggies are better microwaved than cooked in boiling water. I "bake" potatoes and yams and sweet potatoes in it. I do many of my casserole dishes in the microwave. I also cook fish in it. Anything that needs to be steamed, I steam in the microwave.

I heat prepared foods like canned soups, pasta, etc. when I'm in a real hurry. (I don't eat those things unless I'm in a real hurry.) Left-over take-out. Homemade frozen dinners, chili, soups. (I make extras purposely, because they don't taste like left-overs when reheated in the microwave.)

I do not bake in it, and I rarely make meat in it, unless it's part of a casserole.

Answer 2

i use the Microwave oven for mostly everything. Meat, Vegtables,
HOt water, Pizza, Cooking Gravy, Cooking Ramen and other noodles, I heat up a heat pack, I have dried flowers in it, baked cakes and cookies, I know I have not done alot I could do in it but even raviolli's has a recipe to heat them up with on the can. Macaroni and Cheese..POPCORN>>>>Melting butter for the popcorn>>>

Answer 3

Mostly reaheating, thawing and dry roasting ingredients before grinding. I also use it to make fish which is cooked in a tbsp of oil but tastes just like fried. Also< I have a small baby so cooking rice and lentils in small quantities is no longer a problem and I can make the most delicious of puddings in a jiffy for him too.

I baste chicken in the microwave before putting it into the pot which saves a lot of time and gas too.

I USE my microwave constantly.Mine is micro+convectional so I use it to grill and bake too.

Answer 4

For reheating
baking potatoes
If u r in a hurry to make aloo paratha
just microwave potatoes for 4 minutes and potatoes r ready for stuffing.
U can make cake in just 10 minutes
All stuffed vegetables without oil
I cook ladyfinger also
Roasting poha(rice flacks) for poha chivda
and lots of other thimgs

Answer 5

I use it for popcorn and every once in awhile for a potato and then I put it in the oven to get crispy. Otherwise than that, I really don't use it. For re-heating food, I use the oven or the stove top.

Answer 6

A microwave oven works by passing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2450 MHz (a wavelength of 12.24 cm), through the food. Water, fat, and sugar molecules in the food absorb energy from the microwave beam in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, and therefore rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field induced by the microwave beam. This molecular movement creates heat as the rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion. Microwave heating is most efficient on liquid water, and much less so on fats and sugars (which have less molecular dipole moment), and frozen water (where the molecules are not free to rotate). Microwave heating is sometimes incorrectly explained as a rotational resonance of water molecules: such resonance only occurs at much higher frequencies, in the tens of gigahertz. Moreover, large industrial/commercial microwave ovens operating in the 900 MHz range also heat water and food perfectly well.
A common misconception is that microwave ovens cook food from the "inside out". In reality, microwaves are absorbed in the outer layers of food in a manner somewhat similar to heat from other methods. The misconception arises because microwaves penetrate dry nonconductive substances at the surfaces of many common foods, and thus often deposit initial heat more deeply than other methods. Depending on water content the depth of initial heat deposition may be several centimeters or more with microwave ovens, in contrast to grilling ("broiling" in American English), which relies on infrared radiation, or convection heating, which deposit heat shallowly at the food surface. Depth of penetration of microwaves is dependent on food composition and the frequency, with lower microwave frequencies being more penetrating..

Answer 7

the microwave is mainly used for warming food at an easy level and also used for making roasts,grilled food ,cake and many other things . it has many advantages

Answer 8

I have a convection oven so I bake everything in mine everyday but I do use it for reheating as well. I can't imagine life without one a bit tragic I know

Answer 9

these days, people are getting lazy to cook a proper meal. so, they tend to get ready-to-cook food like those in 7-11. all you have to do is reheat it! well... too bad, x'mas is over else you may want to microwave your turkey?

Answer 10

I use it mainly for reheating ,
Initially i tried making many dishes in it ... But somehow they did not turn out to be so good . So i gave up .