Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Damaeus > wrote:
>
>
>> I'm not scared of the microwave. I just prefer conventional heat sources:
>> the oven, and the stove.
>
> I've done some reading about when stoves were introduced. They were the
> "new-fangled" invention. Some people thought that open fires worked
> better, and refused to install stoves. By "open fire" we are talking
> about the fireplace in the kitchen, which was in the basement.
>
> Before we bought our first microwave, we took an evening class in
> microwave cooking. You can cook darn near anything in a microwave. I'm
> glad we took the class. It taught us why the regular stove is much
> better for cooking nearly everything.
>

I got my first microwave, an Amana Radar Range, at the end of 1989. I
had just returned to work with 3 kids and a cranky (soon to become
ex)husband. I was given an amazing Christmas bonus that year so I got
the microwave.

I loved it without going to school to learn how to use it. I did read
the excellent book it came with and learned to make a ring-shaped
meatloaf in a Pyrex pie plate with a custard cup in the middle. If I
browned meatballs in the broiler first, I could put them in a bowl of
sauce, cover it and nuke it for quick meatballs. The meatballs took the
same amount of time as it did to cook the spaghetti.

That microwave, along with the pressure cooker, were a working mom's
salvation.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.