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The Microwave - one of the best inventions?

  • 02-11-2015 07:40AM
    #1
    JupiterKid
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    I was thinking - the microwave has revolutionised cooking over the past 40 years. Food can be cooked, roasted, defrosted etc.

    So one of the best inventions?


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,386 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If ya like beans.


  • #3
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Nah, the laptop is the best invention. It allows me to watch nudey stuff online at the click of a button.


  • #4
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    The microwave oven was banned in russia in the 70s because of its negative impact on health.

    They are also not permitted in Switzerland because it is claimed that microwaved food shorts out electrical impulses in the brain and shuts down hormone production in men and women.


  • #5
    Walter Bishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Walter Bishop


    In terms of making it ultra-simple to eat processed crap loaded with sugar and salt, yep it's a humdinger alright.


  • #6
    Massimo Cassagrande
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    They're great for warming paint before you go spraying, but I wouldn't be putting my food into one.


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  • #7
    Peregrinus
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I was thinking - the microwave has revolutionised cooking over the past 40 years. Food can be cooked, roasted, defrosted etc.

    So one of the best inventions?
    Food could be, and was, cooked, roasted, defrosted, etc before microwaves were invented. Even now, perhaps 5% of my cooking is done in the microwave; the rest on the hob or in the oven.

    The invention of the kitchen stove/range a bit over 200 years ago brought about a much, much more revolutionary change in most people's live than the microwave ever did.

    The microprocessor is the invention that has made computing accessible to all. I nominate that for "best invention"


  • #8
    syklops
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I was thinking - the microwave has revolutionised cooking over the past 40 years. Food can be cooked, roasted, defrosted etc.

    So one of the best inventions?

    Roasting? As in roast beef? I wouldn't do it in a microwave. Very handy for warming up milk, scrambled eggs in a hurry, and lots of other things. Not as common, but the halogen oven revolutionized cooking in our house.


  • #9
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Will be replaced in 10 years by the sous vide. Or replacing the crockpot at least.


  • #10
    ElleEm
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    The only thing I "cook" in the microwave is popcorn. Other than that, I use it to heat food (I cook a lot in batches and freeze). I don't even use it to defrost food, I just wouldn't trust it.


  • #11
    monkeysnapper
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    3 kids in the house its a must, otherwise I'd have used in intire box of tea bags all in one day


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    nah, printing press, television, radio, aeroplane, telescope all the best when you think of it.

    Microwave is a terrible candidate.


  • #13
    Sunnyisland
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057514082

    What's with all the microwave threads ? The last one was over in less than a minute.


  • #14
    Fr_Dougal
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    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    3 kids in the house its a must, otherwise I'd have used in intire box of tea bags all in one day

    You microwave kids? Would the tea not be easier?


  • #15
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    Who actually "cooks" in a microwave?

    Scrambled eggs and reheats only


  • #16
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    3 kids in the house its a must, otherwise I'd have used in intire box of tea bags all in one day

    You throw teabags at the kids?


  • #17
    machiavellianme
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    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    3 kids in the house its a must, otherwise I'd have used in intire box of tea bags all in one day

    I don't understand this? :confused:
    Do you recycle tea bags in the microwave?

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  • #18
    foggy_lad
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    Porridge is lovely out of the microwave, and also something you can expect to be eating for a long time for cooking children with tea-bag stuffing in the microwave


  • #19
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    theteal wrote: »
    Who actually "cooks" in a microwave?

    I once witnessed my boyfriend's parents cooking mince in the microwave!


  • #20
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    ElleEm wrote: »
    I once witnessed my boyfriend's parents cooking mince in the microwave!

    Yum yum:)


  • #21
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    The microwave oven was banned in russia in the 70s because of its negative impact on health.

    No evidence that microwaves were banned in the USSR in the 70's beyond myths and false statements about them.
    They are also not permitted in Switzerland because it is claimed that microwaved food shorts out electrical impulses in the brain and shuts down hormone production in men and women.

    They are permitted and sold in Switzerland :confused:


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  • #22
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    donegaLroad wrote: »
    The microwave oven was banned in russia in the 70s because of its negative impact on health.

    Indeed and was only lifted after Perestroika in the early 90’s.
    A long list is available here why you should not use a metal box full of 2.4Ghz to heat nutrients.

    Traditional conduction/convection heating methods, that have been around since the start of time are more than good enough.


  • #23
    sonny.knowles
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    Beans, soup and popcorn (separately of course).

    Not much else.


  • #24
    brevity
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    Walter Bishop wrote: »
    In terms of making it ultra-simple to eat processed crap loaded with sugar and salt, yep it's a humdinger alright.

    It is a Hum dinger when ya think about it.


  • #25
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,925 ✭✭✭Calibos


    I love the irony of the folks going on about the dangers of 2.4ghz and their microwave dinner while posting on their laptop thats talking to their broadband router via 2.4ghz wifi :D I guarantee there are more significant health effects caused by the fat, salt and sugar in the microwave dinner than from the microwave or the wifi :D


  • #26
    LDN_Irish
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    brevity wrote: »
    It is a Hum dinger when ya think about it.

    Haha very good!

    I think there's a bit of confusion about "cooking with the microwave." I lived with my dad for a few years in my teens and his house was dilapidated as f*ck and he never replaced anything that broke. For example we went years without a washing machine and used a launderette. Same with the oven, it broke shortly after he moved in and he couldn't afford to replace it like for like so he replaced it with a "microwave oven." This thing actually had a grill and oven setting which worked just like real grills and ovens. You could roast a chicken in it using heat and not the shaking the molecules around or whatever a microwave does. That was probably what the people with the mince were doing although I've never roasted or grilled mince so not sure.


  • #27
    jester77
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I was thinking - the microwave has revolutionised cooking over the past 40 years. Food can be cooked, roasted, defrosted etc.

    So one of the best inventions?

    Mobile applications have superseded the microwave. From the comfort of my couch I can open my delivery app, pick my favourite restaurant, select what I want to eat, pay for it in the app and then track the driver. Unfortunately I still have to get up from the couch to open the door, so there is still room for improvement.


  • #28
    _Kaiser_
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    I used to Microwave loads of stuff years ago.. now I don't think I've ever used the one in my current place.


  • #29
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I used to Microwave loads of stuff years ago.. now I don't think I've ever used the one in my current place.

    I'd say stock up on microwaves now because it will be a retro appliance in the future, much sought after by future hipsters


  • #30
    Paramite Pie
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    I've discovered that you can microwave sausages (just pierce them first!). Handy if I'm in a hurry in the morning but still want sausages & scrambled egg. Don't have to wash the pan then either.

    Porridge microwaves very well too, you don't need to by a specifically microwave.instant porridge to do it either. That's just a gimmick and probably costs more.:pac:

    Other than that, I do all my cooking with a cooker. I cook for two and reheat the 2nd dinner the next day in the microwave.


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  • #31
    MadsL
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    jester77 wrote: »
    Mobile applications have superseded the microwave. From the comfort of my couch I can open my delivery app, pick my favourite restaurant, select what I want to eat, pay for it in the app and then track the driver. Unfortunately I still have to get up from the couch to open the door, so there is still room for improvement.

    http://www.amazon.com/August-Smart-Lock-Keyless-Smartphone/dp/B00OHY14CS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446484232&sr=8-1&keywords=smartphone+door+entry


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