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post #41 of 48
6/2/07 at 12:54am
way,way to much!
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post #42 of 48
6/2/07 at 2:45am

It takes getting used to...

but much like television, after the first few weeks you don't even miss it. we have a microwave again because we have a room mate, but the thought of using it is disturbing at this point. having said that, a flame deflector is a must for reheating food on the stove if you're going microwave free.
post #43 of 48
6/2/07 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by zeldabee View Post
I'll give up my microwave when it's pried from my cold, dead hands.
Yeah, I definitely can't even imagine it during this summer heat... I use it several times a day to heat up leftovers. We cooked up a big batch of homemade mini pizzas last night and even though it was the evening when it had cooled off and the oven was only on for 15 minutes it heated up the whole house and it was miserable (maybe I should look into one of those solar ovens?)

I avoided microwaves like the plague until I had to do a research paper for an enviro college class and chose to do it on food irradiation. I was really shocked when I was studying all the effects of various exposures on the chemical make up of foods that in many situations radiant heat from the oven was actually more damaging and created more carcinogens than the microwave, so I ended up getting one for myself after that and have never looked back (I still definitely avoid irradiated food though). I have an air popper for popcorn as well as a convection toaster oven (I usually cook with that rather than the oven if I can fit everything in, although pretty much everything says, "not to be used in toaster oven" so that's my biggest frustration with it) but I just can't even imagine heating everything up on the stove top or in the toaster oven all day this time of year.
post #44 of 48
6/2/07 at 1:36pm
Well, I love my toaster oven, and don't like microwave popcorn, but for some things, a microwave just works better, and uses less energy. It will never replace my LeCreuset dutch oven, or my cast iron skillet, but it's a very useful thing. I could live without it, but I don't want to. (FWIW, I microwave in pyrex or glass, not plastic, and IMO, microwaving in styrofoam is just gross.)
post #45 of 48
6/2/07 at 9:25pm
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I'll give up my microwave when it's pried from my cold, dead hands.
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I used to have a microwave & one day a piece of the latch broke, making it unusable. I wondered how I'd get by with six kids & no microwave, but inside I was kind of glad because I'd always had a funny feeling about using it on food. Nothing I could really pinpoint - it just didn't seem right.

So, I didn't replace it and I'm so glad we're free of it now. It's been a few years now, and even with a large family I don't miss it.
post #46 of 48
6/3/07 at 8:50pm
Me too! My family has been microwave free for two years now. And I am very glad. We do eat much more healthy and much less junk.

As for defrosting meat. I find that if I put it into a frying pan with a thin layer of water in the bottom and turn on my stove burner to really low, I will have thawed meat in a very short time.
post #47 of 48
6/8/07 at 5:18am
Thread Starter 
Well, an update--we finally decided to take the plunge--we got rid of our microwave in our recent move, after much debate and deliberation! (I think DH gave it to one of the moving guys.) And we moved across the country and into our new home to find . . .

the sellers had left the brand new microwave with the house! It is a white whirlpool microwave--which matches the white whirlpool stove, dishwasher and refrigerator.



Back to the drawing board!
post #48 of 48
6/8/07 at 5:26am


That is just too funny!