how much of the heavy lifting does chef mike do in your kitchen?

>>21444114 (OP)
heats up leftovers and that little bit of milk for my coffee

>>21444114 (OP)
My microwave broke right before covid, I never replaced it, and I don't even think about it anymore

Milk for espresso. In Summer, daily I'll make a 2qt of hot water with 3 quart sized Luzianne tea bags, let it steep while I do the night's dishes. Pour over ice then refrigerate overnight for sweet tea.

Hot water for instant mashed potato flakes (baby reds), ramen, oatmeal, grits, arepa masa mix. Whole potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob.

I do regularly use it to defrost frozen meat. I have a microwave cooker for 4 hard boiled eggs, which works like a champ for egg salad prep.

On the regular, I do buy frozen Callendar pot pies, Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches, MichelAngelo eggplant parm, baked ziti, burritos, Goya tamales and maduros, steam-in-bag edamame, peas, brown rice.

>>21444114 (OP)
reheating food, and boiling small amounts of water. nothing more.

>>21444114 (OP)
Kickstarts getting cold dough up to room temp and melts butter sometimes
Other than that it's a machine dedicated to beanbags for my neck/back

>>21444130
I like to use the cool milk out of the fridge to cool down mine so I can sip it more quickly lol. I used to be hypochondriac somewhat and I've heard that hot drinks (too hot) and foods increase your chances of contracting mouth and throat cancers. I hate this because every single time I stop at timmy's for a coffee, the barista gives me the stink eye because I asked them to put an ice cube in the mug of literal lava they give me... anyways, thanks for listening to my rant.

>>21444178
>she goes to tim hortons

>>21444114 (OP)
Zero. I’m almost 40 and have never owned a microwave. My mom didn’t believe in them so I never had one growing up and when I started living on my own I never wanted it needed one. People who notice I don’t have a microwave in my kitchen always act like I’m some kind of freak because I reheat food on the stove or in the oven or the toaster oven. You don’t need a microwave unless you eat frozen microwave food.

>>21444166
>On the regular, I do buy frozen Callendar pot pies, Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches, MichelAngelo eggplant parm, baked ziti, burritos, Goya tamales and maduros, steam-in-bag edamame, peas, brown rice.
Dios Mio

great for heating up small amounts of oil for making herb infusions and marinades

>>21444130
you wike a widdle bit of miwk in ur cwaffee huh? make sure to heat it up a widdle to its not all kwold and woons ur cwaffee expiowance?

>>21444114 (OP)
My grandma made me and my fiance a whole meal (besides the salad) in the microwave last night. Pork burnt ends from Aldi, a potato, and cauliflower and it tasted fucking great. I've learned from her that it doesn't matter how you put a meal together, it's all about the taste and presentation.

>>21444178
>I stop at timmy's for a coffee

>>21444877

I use it for hungry man dinners when too high and drunk to cook properly

I don't use it too often
growing up in the 90s though that's basically how all the "cooking" was done in my house

>>21444114 (OP)
Almost none, I don't even know why I bought it.
Sometimes when I make egg fried rice I par cook the carrots because they take a long time to cook, that's it.

>>21444130
Put the milk in your kettle with your coffee

>>21444114 (OP)
I use it to heat up the plate before snorting lines of cocaine off of it. For some reason it makes the drugs go harder.

>have job
my one meal a day
>no job
maybe one meal a day

>>21444114 (OP)
I don't have enough counter space for a microwave in my apartment, so I've learned to live microwaveless. it's healthier living.

>>21444114 (OP)
Assigned permanent reheat duty. Nice for heating up water to bread making temps too.

Only thing I've ever done raw in it is mug cakes.

>>21444752
It's just faster than stove top or toaster. It's true you can live without it, you just lose time to having to reheat stuff in a pot. AND you get a 2nd dirty dish.

Only use it to reheat food and cook cabbage.

>>21445496
But microwave reheated food is always nastier than food reheated on a stove or oven/toaster oven. It's wet and soggy and dry at the same time. The time loss is negligible. Oh no, five minutes on the stove or toaster oven vs two minutes in the wavyboy. It takes under three minutes to wash a pan/pot by hand or you can just put it in the dishwasher. Microwaves are for the lazy and the fat and I hate them.

>>21444114 (OP)
as a 4chan janitor (who works for free) i would die without chef mike

>>21445612
>presumably an adult
>can't use a microwave without burning his food
kek

People who use the term "chef mike" are subhuman, down there with those who call themself their pet's parent

Mine is named Rico
So you can say
>Nuke em, Rico

More than you'd expect. If you use the power level function effectively, t's about as useful as the oven portion of your stove.

>>21446038
lay off chef mike, man
you don't want to push his buttons!

Sometimes I'll use mine to make no-bake cookies. Traditionally they're made with rolled/quick oats but I like mine with toasted coconut and pecans. Otherwise it's almost strictly for reheating stuff or making popcorn.

>>21446048
This.
I'm able to make hard hoiled eggs with my machine.

>>21444114 (OP)
mine is just a leftover re-heater and occasional butter melter

>>21444114 (OP)
Holy shit, growing up my family had this exact type of microwave. I think my parents bought it in the 80's but then kept it all the way until 2010's

>>21444114 (OP)
None. Don't have one anymore. Was given a nice one as a gift but I used it so little that I gave it away to a relative 8(ish?) years ago and have never missed it.

>>21444870
>burnt

Are you British?

Liquids and heating leftovers is all I use it for.
They cook meat absolutely horrible, even reheating, and make things tough.
They unevenly heat foods, overcooking parts and undercooking others if you try to dial it back. Turning the power down to like 30% works better for reheating, but cycles them on and off so quickly it certainly makes them break far sooner since starting and stopping is the hardest on the components.
Just stick to liquids and minor reheating leftovers.

They work by exciting water molecules, and things with uneven moisture distribution cook awful.