When you realize the microwave is basically an efficient steamer you’ll improve your life in an instant
While this is a meme and a joke, have you ever wondered why both oven and microwave have a power adjust but you only adjust the one on the oven and the food mysteriously tastes better from it?
You’re telling my I don’t need to blast my food with 1000W every time?
How else am I going to get Mustafar on the outside and Hoth on the inside?
It still blasts it at full power, but it cycles on and off. So 1 minute at 50% power will only run for 30 seconds, but it gives it time to warm through.
Expensive microwaves can actually vary their power output
Herecy or orthodox? Now fight
This is not even remotely the same thing…
Ovens cook food from the outside in, this means higher temperatures can burn the outside.
Microwaves cook food from the inside out (sort of). You can get away with higher power for this reason for most foods.
It doesn’t cook outside in or inside out but both get the same amount of power. Problem is that microwave doesn’t do it evenly and lower power allows the heat to spread more evenly instead of couple auper heated spots drying while some parta are still cold. Rotating plate is a hack to try spread the radiation more evenly but doesn’t work too well.
Smaller masses help. Say for mashed potatoes, make essentially a ring on the plate as opposed to a big lump
While good in theory, in reality I never eat so little that I could possibly do that.
Mine microwave doesn’t :<
I found a toaster oven that… was going to be thrown out, by someone in my building, … because the handle thingy had detached from the door/window.
… All you have to do is slide it back on where it had been glued on, and open and close it gently, its fine.
Gave it a thorough cleaning, ran it through some test cycles… it works perfectly.
Only a week or so ago, I figured out it has an air fryer mode if you just turn one of the dials all the way.
Apparently it has a whole powered vent and airflow system as well.
… air fryers are fucking magic, basically.
PSA - pretty much all electric ovens have the “air fryer” function, usually denoted with a fan picture in the heating mode section.
I only recently managed to replace my glasses, and have never had an air fryer before, and did not get the manual for this thing, though I guess I could have bothered to look it up.
But, nonetheless, yes, this is a good PSA, would have helped me lol!
All I gotta say is use a cup of water and a cover and your microwaved food quality will be so much better.
I like to buy those premade breakfast sandwiches from the store and the microwave is so much nicer since it is faster. The directions for ovens always want you to do something like 20-30 minutes which is effectively how much time it takes to make the damn thing, piece by piece. Granted you’re not making it, but I digress.
But the microwave makes the bread hard and the center cold.
So use a cover and place a single cup of water under the cover with your food, or use butter in the cup if you want a little extra flavor added. It’s not really that noticeable, so I don’t do it often.
You’ll notice your food comes out so much better. I did this last night with one of those sandwiches and it was so perfectly cooked and the bread was perfect. I also do this to reheat pizza and it works wonders so you don’t end up with hard crust and a watery underside.
OP is so real for this
