Convenience never Tasted this Good

[digitS']

Exactly what we have used it for, 99% of the time, @flowerweaver .

I can't remember when I got one. About 25 years ago I discovered its usefulness in baking a cut up apple. With raisins and a shot of whipping cream, this became a dessert of choice with a small child in the house.

To get her to eat veggies, I'd put about equal amounts of sour cream and grated cheddar in to melt and pour over broccoli, or something. I'd have to stand there and try to watch it or be very careful in my measurements and time. Still, it beat standing over a double boiler.

Success with that sauce made me think I might be able to become the Sauce King! I quickly realized where I was going with that high calorie notion. (Even creatively adding a little Dijon mustard didn't, uh, cut the mustard or the calories .) Besides, it still ain't easy for me to make sauces in there!

Steve
edit to add the mustard

 

[digitS']

Steve how long do you nuke it for. I never go near my stove but use microware almost every day.

Individual serving size, ready to eat:

5 minutes, cut side down
apply honey, sugar and butter
2 minutes, cut side up.

What is it ... I think 1000 watts.

Steve
who used a minute less for what went in the freezer

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm like @flowerweaver, it's nice to have the counter space.
We were the last people to get an answering machine, and second to last to get cell phones.

I quit using the microwave because I think it's iffy.
Just a personal paranoia.

I did keep it and it's out in the garage. Just in case. Just in case of what, I don't know, but it's out there.

 

[digitS']

Yeah, I don't like standing there trying to see through the door ...

You know, I'm trying to figure out scheduling with @seedcorn 's potatoes coming out to go into skillet for cottage fries while my omelets come out of the skillet and go into the microwave for that last 45sec of cooking. Meanwhile, I've got the cheese sauce on the double boiler ...

I'll get it down!

digitS'

 

[thistlebloom]

What you need there is two skillets Steve!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I broke my fav microwave doing a kabucha squash. It just stopped....

 

[Nyboy]

I'm like @flowerweaver, it's nice to have the counter space.
We were the last people to get an answering machine, and second to last to get cell phones.

I quit using the microwave because I think it's iffy.
Just a personal paranoia.

I did keep it and it's out in the garage. Just in case. Just in case of what, I don't know, but it's out there.

How do you make popcorn ??

 

[thistlebloom]

How do you make popcorn ??

Haha! That's so cute NYboy!

I have a popcorn maker that kid#1 gave me for Christmas one year.
You put the oil and popcorn kernels in the base and the domed lid on. It has a metal screed thingy in the base that sweeps around and keeps the popcorn from burning. Only takes minutes to make a huge bowl full.

 

[flowerweaver]

Fancy contraption @thistlebloom !--we make popcorn in a skillet with a lid and pick out the burnt kernels! LOL

Believe it or not, we actually live where there is no cell phone service. For the first five years we had a 'wood burning' modem, but I made a deal with the phone company letting them cut through my driveway if I could have DSL off the cable they were laying. Ten years later my neighbors are only now getting connected!

 

[thistlebloom]

@flowerweaver, woodburning modem! That's funny!
Well I just finally gave up my rotary dial cell phone for a more high tech 'flip"phone.