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By: Bidding Farewell to the Microwave Oven « Red and Honey

Bidding Farewell to the Microwave Oven « Red and Honey — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:59:45 +0000

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By: Jason Sooter

Jason Sooter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:30:45 +0000

Just get rid of it. Believe me you can live without it. Whether or not the side effects are true or if there are any at all. Use a toaster oven. It makes the food so much better anyway.

By: donielle

donielle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:37:23 +0000

@Erica, I should really go get him a thermos, huh? Maybe I’ll check them out this weekend when I head to the store in town.

and hey – I could just call them pizza rolls!

By: donielle

donielle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:35:10 +0000

@Ann, What a fabulous way to store those skillets! I only wish my husband was ready to get rid of ours....

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:24:13 +0000

I only use a microwave at work once a week. I need to just start packing a cold lunch instead. I use a toaster oven at home to heat up leftovers, and since my microwave is built in, I use it to store my cast iron skillets.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:34:45 +0000

We stopped using our microwave over a year ago and replaced it with a small inexpensive toaster oven to reheat leftovers, cook hot dogs, etc. I have NEVER missed my microwave.

Try sending hot foods in a good-quality thermos for your husband’s lunch. The only thing I think this might be tricky with is pizza, but if he didn’t mind it squished up…

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:42:07 +0000

Hi;

My husband and I haven’t owned a microwave ever in our marriage – we started to get into NT etc while we were engaged. We used a toaster oven at home for a long time, but I didn’t see anybody post the idea of getting a Thermos food jar – Thermos makes them vacuum sealed double walled out of stainless steel these days, and they make the a shorter wider mouth opening (some even come with a spoon that folds!) You can heat leftovers up in the morning, and they’ll still be hot or basically whatever temperature you heated it up to in the morning (they hardly lose any heat between breakfast and lunchtime if the thermos is at room temp in the morning) for lunchtime. Just thought I’d add that in – the containers can be pricey $25 – 30 to get a decent sized container but if you use it frequently, not a bad investment… http://www.thermosonline.com/jars.htm This is a smaller one (I think) than the one we have, but you get the idea…

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:52:08 +0000

I must admit I’m surprised to read of people using the microwave to melt butter, as it never occurred to me to do that. I’ve always melted it on the stove in a little saucepan–it doesn’t take that long. I am 51 so I grew up in an era before the microwave oven existed and learned to cook on the stove and with the regular oven. And having food allergies, I don’t eat processed foods so I cook a lot from scratch, which also means using the stovetop and oven. My use of the microwave in the past has mainly been to heat up leftovers for dinner or to heat my lunch at work. I always used glass or Corningware, never plastic, in the microwave, being aware that the plastic can get into the food.

Since the Weston Price Foundation advises against using the microwave, I decided in the past year to see if I could stop using it totally. I was using it daily to heat my lunch at work–I bring leftovers for lunch in mini Corningware containers since am allergic to wheat so can’t eat sandwiches. And I don’t eat salads in the winter as I try to eat seasonally. So my lunch must be heated up. There is also a toaster oven at work, that someone bought to bake cookies. So, I tried putting my Corningwares in the toaster oven and that is working out well. It does take longer (10 minutes vs. 2) but is worth it to have healthier food. I am having a problem with my food getting dried out sometimes so will have to see if glass lids exist for these tiny Corningwares (I got them with plastic lids).

At home, I found the quickest way to reheat food is put it in a non-stick frying pan with some water (quicker than the toaster oven). My non-stick pans are teflon-free: Cuisinart Green Gourmet which is totally non-toxic. Now, I am only using the microwave for non-food items, such as sterilizing sponges or heating up hot packs. Also, since it is above the stove (built-in), it’s a handy place to stick a pan of meat (after the meat is cooked in the regular oven), to keep the cat from getting up on the stove and eating it while we are in the other room having dinner . The only trick is remembering to take it out of the microwave and put it in the refrigerator after we’re done with dinner (if we didn’t eat it all).

My husband doesn’t like change but he has been following my lead and stopped using the microwave as well (he works from home so doesn’t have the issue of heating a lunch at work that I do). We do have more dishes to wash, with heating stuff on the stove instead of microwave, but at least the non-stick pans clean up fast.

By: Expat Mom

Expat Mom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:32:47 +0000

Interesting post! My mom was always very wary of microwaves, so we didn’t have one (she actually cooked on a wood stove for the first 10 years of my life) until I was in my late teens. I used it quite a bit, but then I moved out at 19 and never had one again. It just never seemed like a necessity . . . you can do everything just as well and with better results, albeit more time, on the stove.

By: Becky@BoysRuleMyLife

Becky@BoysRuleMyLife — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:06:45 +0000

When we moved in August 2009, our new-to-us, but actually quite old, house did not have room for our microwave. I saw this as a blessing and asked my husband if we could just see how we do without it for awhile before we went and purchased a smaller one. Well, it’s now February 2010 and we still don’t have one! The pot and pans pile up quicker, but I feel better about the food that I’m preparing… even if it is something terrible like the occasional hot dog! LOL!