Tidbits on microwave ovens for the student with a student loan budget
Tidbits on microwave ovens for the student with a student loan budget
When you are cooking for yourself on the microwave there is a whole lot of information that might come on the instruction booklet and cooking guide of your microwave oven, if, that is, you are lucky enough to have a new one.
For the vast majority, their own microwave ovens came out from the generous donations of family members who were just as well going to toss their microwave ovens to the trash, since they have a new one. In other cases, their microwave oven came from Salvation Army or Second Hand stores or from “sharing” programs scheduled and organized even by internet businesses or any other form of company.
In these cases, there is no luck in having an instruction booklet and even less a chance for a cooking guide. Some resourceful students will write the manufacturing company and ask them for a replacement for these important papers on their microwave ovens. Yet some will not since they already have a microwave oven at home and the functions are basically the same, there is little to no point –at least to them- to waste time and money requesting instruction booklets and cooking guides.
Here are some guidelines in terms of the managing on the microwave cooking scheme.
• You can make hot cakes, though it is cooked, it will not look the same or taste the same, but it can also make up for a small personal cake.
• If you are frying things on your microwave, always use a protective lid and remember to take out the excess oil if you are frying bacon, sausage or any other greasy food.
• If you are boiling water, keep the edge of the water at least ¼” down of the rim of the recipient in which you are boiling the water.
• Despite what any manufacturer states, always try and use glass cookware on your microwave, avoid metal and resins, especially if you are making your own popcorn.
• Clean your oven at least once a week, but deodorize it as often as you can, especially after cooking stew or any other spiced food, just boiling one cup of water will suffice.
• The best way to create gourmet masterpieces in the microwave oven is to practice, there are things that you did not think you could do and things that you think you can do but you really cannot, but the only way you can truly know is to try to do them.