Microwave Ovens for the Terminally Impatient

[champu 1]

Has anyone else ever noticed that almost all recommended microwave times are multiples of 15 seconds? I don't see why the obvious solution hasn't been seen all this time.

I demand a microwave oven that is 15 times as powerful as current models.

a minute and a half for oatmeal? more like an eternity and a half, am I right?

3 minutes for soup? screw that. I want it in 12 seconds.

[AggieDave 6]

The original commercial microwave was much more powerful then what we have now. Of course it had to have a special cooling system installed into the house for it and it was very VERY expensive.

However, it cooked full meals in literally a minute, it was very powerful.

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[quade 4]

There are things you want cooked fast and there are things you want cooked slow.

One of the problems with microwave ovens is they still cook things pretty fast and so, most things end up tasting like crap. Making things more powerful will only get you food that tastes like crap faster. Who needs that?

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[LouDiamond 1]

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However, it cooked full meals in literally a minute, it was very powerful.

Which is why you didn't want to stand in front of it and look through the window


A minute and a half for oatmeal? What's the world coming to when waiting a few minutes for something that used to take 20-30 mins to make seems too long? Next time try doing some push ups or sit ups for that minute and a half while it cooks

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[champu 1]

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One of the problems with microwave ovens is they still cook things pretty fast and so, most things end up tasting like crap. Making things more powerful will only get you food that tastes like crap faster. Who needs that?

You lack vision.

[quade 4]

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You lack vision.

Perhaps, but I still have my taste buds -- bud.

No nuked can of chilli is ever going to beat something I've cooked in a crock pot for 12 hours.

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[DeNReN 0]

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No nuked can of chilli is ever going to beat something I've cooked in a crock pot for 12 hours.

What if the canned chilli was cooked in a crock pot for 16 hours by a superior chilli cook before it was canned?

[quade 4]

I still think it loses something in the reheating.

And it's not just me either . . . Google it.

For example; http://aginfo.psu.edu/psa/fw98/food.html

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[Viking 0]

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However, it cooked full meals in literally a minute, it was very powerful.

Which is why you didn't want to stand in front of it and look through the window

well unless you wanted your junk to glow in the dark. "Is that a glow stick in your pants?" "well i guess you could call him that

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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You lack vision.

Perhaps, but I still have my taste buds -- bud.

No nuked can of chilli is ever going to beat something I've cooked in a crock pot for 12 hours.

When I make chili, I do it in a huge 12-quart pot on the stovetop and it comes out kick-ass good! I never have used a crock pot for it, nor taken more than two or three hours to get it done. Why would it be so much better in a crock pot? (I don't know of any 3 gallon crock pots, by the way...)

And I love it when it's reheated in the microwave! It even gets better!
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Why would it be so much better in a crock pot?

Whuffo you asking a question like? Try it and see.

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[jumper03 0]

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No nuked can of chilli is ever going to beat something I've cooked in a crock pot for 12 hours.

The proof is in the pudding. I think we need some samples

Especially considering the recent chili debate in the veggie thread

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Might make for an interesting side event at one of the gatherings.

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

I make kickass chili -- the secret is a load of different kinds of beans (like five or six) and green pepper and black olives.

My beef stew is my pride, though. Oh, god is that good!

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-Jeffrey
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[AggieDave 6]

Beans? That's a stew...you need lots of beef or pork or freshly killed deer.

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[AirMail 0]

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Beans? That's a stew...you need lots of beef or pork or freshly killed deer.

Isn't that called "road kill" stew?

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[AggieDave 6]

What's your point?

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[RevJim 0]

Beans are ok in chili, it's those people that load it up with pasta of some sort and call it chili that pss me off.

Noodles and thin=soup.
Noodles and thick=goulash.
No noodles and thick=chili.

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[champu 1]

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Might make for an interesting side event at one of the gatherings.

Chili-Party at Archway.

nothing says fun like caravan jumps in december in illinois, followed by a chili cook-off.

[LouDiamond 1]

I just want to know why every thing microwavable sold in a box/container comes in odd numbers, like popcorn. Why only 3 bags in a box and who came up with that shit?

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[jose 0]

I bought this little baby a couple years back.....they kick ass. Not only are they ridiculiously fast, but they brown, roast, crisp....damn near everything. I can cook a salmon steak in this thing in about 6 minutes and it tastes amazing. I also got it for about 600 bucks, brand new. Best micro ever.

http://www.geappliances.com/advantium/models/spec_240stainless.htm

[wingnut 0]

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demand a microwave oven that is 15 times as powerful as current models.

might want to read up on how a microwave oven cooks food...... ever wonder why the center of your hot pocket is stll frozen and the outside burns your mouth??? simple, the microwaves only penetrate so far.... if yo make it much more powerfull all you are gona do is get brunt outsides with a semi-warm inside to your food... one of the reasons that it normaly says "let stand 1 minute" onthe directions so thatthe inside has a chance to warm up by heat conduction fromthe outside some.....


would be cool to nuke a hot pocket for 5 seconds and have it done though.....

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[ltdiver 3]

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Might make for an interesting side event at one of the gatherings.

Chili-Party at Archway.

nothing says fun like caravan jumps in december in illinois, followed by a chili cook-off.

There's a time and a place for everything, but for something as intestinal streching as beans...a DZ is -not- one of them!

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[champu 1]

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nothing says fun like caravan jumps in december in illinois, followed by a chili cook-off.

There's a time and a place for everything, but for something as intestinal streching as beans...a DZ is -not- one of them!

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might want to read up on how a microwave oven cooks food...... ever wonder why the center of your hot pocket is stll frozen and the outside burns your mouth???

Magnetrons, S-band microwave radiation, dielectric heating.... all a bunch of hogwash.

Shorter wavelength radiation up in the Ka/Q-band tuned to the resonant frequency of water molecules should still heat food and be able to penetrate completely through just about anything you'd stick in a microwave.

You'd prolly have to get rid of the glass door on the front cause the shorter wavelength waves would be more adept at passing through smaller meshes, but who cares if your burrito only has to be out of sight for a couple seconds?

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[Squeak 17]

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demand a microwave oven that is 15 times as powerful as current models.

might want to read up on how a microwave oven cooks food...... ever wonder why the center of your hot pocket is stll frozen and the outside burns your mouth??? simple, the microwaves only penetrate so far.... if yo make it much more powerfull all you are gona do is get brunt outsides with a semi-warm inside to your food... one of the reasons that it normaly says "let stand 1 minute" onthe directions so thatthe inside has a chance to warm up by heat conduction fromthe outside some.....

Also th wavs do not cover the entire insides of the oven, thats why they put tunrtables in them. So put you food OFF centre on the turntable

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