Aside from thawing meat, preparing frozen meals, and using a glass of water to reheat food for a first-day taste, the microwave doesn’t get much use in many homes today.
Depends on your cooking and shopping habits I guess. I rarely thaw meat. I rarely eat frozen meals, and when I do, they are usually the type that can be prepared in the oven. My toaster oven is the device that gets 90% of the use. My microwave can go weeks at a time without being used.
I’m not working right now and find that I’d rather spend the extra 5 minutes to use the oven or stove for most things. When i had an air fryer, it got used way more than the microwave. Microwave will probably see a little more action when i go back to work next month.
Man, the countertop convection oven has been a game changer for us.
Use it pretty much every meal, has really cut down on using the oven so less heat in kitchen in the summer, and I’m sure it’s madena dent in the electric bill (or maybe it’s a wash because we use it so much more).
WTF…
Yeah no use at all.
Hell, I’ll deadass reheat my food mid-meal if it starts going cold, so I can enjoy the last bits just as much.
I mean, if you say “aside from using it for what its for, X doesnt get much use” thats true for most things.
I reheat previous days’ food all the time. I must be doing something wrong.
OMG I know. I use a microwave pretty much for every meal. Either as the primary cooking equipment or as part of the prep.
Microwaves are great for preheating small amounts and thawing things if needed.
To melt butter in a bowl, or quick little things like that
“Aside from the things microwave is used for, it isn’t used very much”
lol, yeah!
Air fryer.
I used to use my microwave for most meals. Now I use it for about 10% with the air fryer getting the other 90.
Depends on your cooking and shopping habits I guess. I rarely thaw meat. I rarely eat frozen meals, and when I do, they are usually the type that can be prepared in the oven. My toaster oven is the device that gets 90% of the use. My microwave can go weeks at a time without being used.
I’m not working right now and find that I’d rather spend the extra 5 minutes to use the oven or stove for most things. When i had an air fryer, it got used way more than the microwave. Microwave will probably see a little more action when i go back to work next month.
Man, the countertop convection oven has been a game changer for us.
Use it pretty much every meal, has really cut down on using the oven so less heat in kitchen in the summer, and I’m sure it’s madena dent in the electric bill (or maybe it’s a wash because we use it so much more).