Threw avay my microwave oven
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Oh, I use it pretty regularly. It's great for thawing frozen vegetables or naan, melting butter, popping popcorn, and rewarming food that has gone cold. It can also cook corn on the cob very nicely if you put the corn in a plastic bag first. The thing I use it most for, however, is warming drinks--milk and tea, usually. Unless you know how much milk and tea my family drinks, it doesn't sound like a lot, but it definitely is .
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I use ours pretty regularly. I mainly use it for thawing frozen veggie sausages or burgers and then fry them a bit to get the texture right. Cuts cooking time down massively if you do it right.
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Re: Threw avay my microwave oven
How fucking wasteful. If you didn't want it, then you could at least have sold it or gave it away.Faram wrote:Okay, I just threw away my fully functional Microwave oven, because I newer used it and it was taking space in my kitchen.
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It cost me 300kr / $40us new, tried to give it away but noone needed one, as for sale to much hassle to little cash.Eulogy wrote:How fucking wasteful. If you didn't want it, then you could at least have sold it or gave it away.
But id did put a note on it works fine, help your self where I left it. (the condo trashroom, the electronics box. On top of the box)
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Couldn't you just give it to the local hospice or something? I hate wasting stuff that still works.
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And carry it all the way? Hell no.Rye wrote:Couldn't you just give it to the local hospice or something? I hate wasting stuff that still works.
Problem with modern life, easier and cheaper just to throw it away.
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I use the microwave all the time, to heat leftovers from the day before, warm a mug of juice, melt butter and other such. We have the fancy type of one that has all sorts of automated cooking ad defrosting settings and a grill function, so cooking stuff in it is actually an option. But for real cooking we tend to use the real oven. It, like the rest of the stove, works on gas, and it does the job just fine so long as you don't try to make cookies or anything else that requires unifrom heat from both above and below.
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We constantly use the microwave for practically everything. My parents are on their third or fourth microwave.
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Re: Threw avay my microwave oven
I don't use the oven at all unless absolutely necessary, as it is highly energy inefficient compared with a microwave, and efficiency = life in the coming world. You will sorely regret your choice to keep your old inefficient oven instead of a microwave oven.Faram wrote:Okay, I just threw away my fully functional Microwave oven, because I newer used it and it was taking space in my kitchen.
The last time it was used I heated some stuff that I can put in a regular owen and be done in 30-40 minutes or put it in the mico and be done in 7. But if I micro then it feels wrong, I dont get a crust on the food and I have to wait 5 minutes for the heat to spread through all food.
So do you use the microwave or is it a dust collector?
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Energy is plentiful, if we could just get rid of all the green lunies and go all out nuke power. I cannot understand what people have against nuclear power.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I don't use the oven at all unless absolutely necessary, as it is highly energy inefficient compared with a microwave, and efficiency = life in the coming world. You will sorely regret your choice to keep your old inefficient oven instead of a microwave oven.
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Energy is plentiful. Cheap energy is not.Faram wrote:Energy is plentiful, if we could just get rid of all the green lunies and go all out nuke power. I cannot understand what people have against nuclear power.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I don't use the oven at all unless absolutely necessary, as it is highly energy inefficient compared with a microwave, and efficiency = life in the coming world. You will sorely regret your choice to keep your old inefficient oven instead of a microwave oven.
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Perhaps, I dont know the rates in Canada. But one kWh is 0.77kr here or $0.11usDarth Wong wrote:Energy is plentiful. Cheap energy is not.
I can take the difference between a regular oven and a microvave, and I more than make up for it buy using a killswitch on my TV, WII, DVD and all other standbuy crap that goes in a modern home.
And I can always buy a new micro if the energy savings become a consern.
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You're missing the point. Energy is fairly cheap now, but the cost of energy has been increasing for some time, and will continue to increase. In any case, it's unethical to waste energy for no reason.Faram wrote:Perhaps, I dont know the rates in Canada. But one kWh is 0.77kr here or $0.11usDarth Wong wrote:Energy is plentiful. Cheap energy is not.
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Indeed, but I have a reason.Darth Wong wrote:You're missing the point. Energy is fairly cheap now, but the cost of energy has been increasing for some time, and will continue to increase. In any case, it's unethical to waste energy for no reason.
I do not like the way food comes out of a micro. I prefer it to be cooked in a regular oven.
And I am not a big user of energy.
This is my total usage in three years:
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Suppose someone said: "Indeed, but I have a reason to drive a huge SUV. I do not like the way it feels to drive in a regular car. I prefer driving a huge SUV." Would you find that logic similarly convincing? It's still unethical to use energy (especially 10x as much as you need to) just for some vague personal preference. And the difference between an SUV and a regular car is nowhere near as dramatic as the difference between a conventional oven and a microwave.Faram wrote:Indeed, but I have a reason.Darth Wong wrote:You're missing the point. Energy is fairly cheap now, but the cost of energy has been increasing for some time, and will continue to increase. In any case, it's unethical to waste energy for no reason.
I do not like the way food comes out of a micro. I prefer it to be cooked in a regular oven.
So you use roughly one third the electricity of the average US household. How large is your family?And I am not a big user of energy.
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We use the microwave a lot, so much so that when it broke and had to be repaired, it was a big inconvenience living without it for a couple of weeks. Usually used for reheating leftovers, but it also does a wonderful job of cooking vegetables and potatoes.
We cook most of our food on the electric range, which is admittedly probably less efficient.
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Bread, that is a microwave is good for. I really like microwaved bread just for some reason.
However, the microwave is good for practically everything. In China they use their microwaves a lot due to the fact that energy is more expensive there. Over there, I had fish, steak, fries, rice (because the rice cooker was broken), and much more.
However I still think a wok is the best (of course that is the advantage of owning a Chinese food restaurant ).
However, the microwave is good for practically everything. In China they use their microwaves a lot due to the fact that energy is more expensive there. Over there, I had fish, steak, fries, rice (because the rice cooker was broken), and much more.
However I still think a wok is the best (of course that is the advantage of owning a Chinese food restaurant ).
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I can't imagine living without a microwave oven.Faram wrote:Okay, I just threw away my fully functional Microwave oven, because I newer used it and it was taking space in my kitchen.
The last time it was used I heated some stuff that I can put in a regular owen and be done in 30-40 minutes or put it in the mico and be done in 7. But if I micro then it feels wrong, I dont get a crust on the food and I have to wait 5 minutes for the heat to spread through all food.
So do you use the microwave or is it a dust collector?
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Oh yeah, microwaves help a lot in making baked potatoes. Can't imagine how long it would take without one.
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I actually have one of those microwave/convection oven things. It can microwave food, it can bake food, it can brown food, etc. Goddamned swiss army knife. But even if you use convection heating, it's still much more efficient than a normal oven because it circulates heated air and has a much smaller chamber, for more efficient heat transfer. The downside is that you can't put really big things in it.
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If the wiring in here could take the strain, I'd spring for one of those combination microwave-convection ovens. Sadly, it can't, so I don't.
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Do you own your home?SirNitram wrote:If the wiring in here could take the strain, I'd spring for one of those combination microwave-convection ovens. Sadly, it can't, so I don't.
If so, it's not all that hard to run a 20A line for a dedicated appliance outlet from the breaker box, especially if you have a basement and can mount the outlet on the floor above.
If not, you're SOL unless you can talk your landlord into doing the work.
As far as my microwave usage goes, I use the hell out of it because my local grocer constantly runs the 'Healthy Choice' frozen dinners on sale and I don't really like to cook just for myself.
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