Things you like to use a microwave to do

Or just make a small batch of olive oil Mayo?

I just did this for mashed potatoes. Took a while!

Depends on how many. I usually poke them with a fork or knife,or cut them up if they’re big. Water, covered bowl.

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Yup, did all that except for the pokes – these were quartered/halved. My Breville doesn’t seem that powerful, I’ve noticed.

Egg in the style of French baveuse omelette, this was one egg, small amount of mayo…no oil, cheese or chips. Forty seconds at 80% power. Tender with a soft center, perfect!

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Too wet on the inside for my tastes in that video.

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Extremely small batch of homemade mayo sounds like a lot of work. I’d have to hand whisk it probably – I think my blender is too large to make just one yolk’s worth. And now we’re well, well outside of the beautiful super-lazy 2-minute zone of this recipe… But if you try it, please do report back :laughing:

Too much mayo, says me.

For me too, but lots of people like ā€œwetā€ omelettes (my grandfather did, but he never convinced us… custardy scrambled eggs, on the other hand, he did pass down) :laughing:

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Some of my fam spent a few years blowing out first fancy and then professional microwaves by cooking rice. Completely frustrated, they decided to test a theory and bought an inexpensive one next – it never died :rofl:

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Is a microwave a good way to cook rice? I didn’t know that was even a thing.

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Today I was reminded that the microwave makes great chicken skin chips, faster (and less splatter-y with a paper towel on top) than the oven.

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That’s interesting. But it seems like about as much hands-on work/time investment as various other methods, although faster overall clock time. Aside from that clock time part is there a specific type of rice or prep for which you find this beneficial?

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Any rice. There’s a discussion of hands-on vs hands-off time upthread. It’s mostly absorption, not active cooking time.

No immersion blender?

I did that until I got an IP and then a rice cooker. Haven’t looked back

Mine came out like overcooked scrambled & took well over a minute. This was 2 eggs, a squirt of kewpie & a teeny dab of butter. I didn’t experiment with the power settings, tho, so maybe that would make a difference.

The time saved didn’t wow me, TBH :woman_shrugging:t2:

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That’s too badā˜¹ļø, yours certainly looks different from mine. You would probably prefer them conventionally made, then.

doing ā€˜consulting’ work I’ve spent mega-more-days/nights in hotels/inns/whatevers that have nothing more than a microwave and a fridge.

done microwaved eggs in every possible way (?) - the eggs can be ā€˜eaten’ but microwaves just cannot manage eggs, imho. hi-power, lo-power, interrupted cooking . . . nope.

donuts and coffee is a more better breakfast that m/w eggs,