"Peter Huebner" > wrote in message
t...
>
> Never had a microwave, until we were given one by a customer loyalty
> scheme a
> few months ago. So I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to anything
> beyond
> reheating a cup of coffee in that gadget.
>
> I've tried defrosting pork, sausages and ground beef a few times and my
> results
> are pretty abysmal. I used the built in defrosting program where you set
> the
> weight, then press start. Alas, I find that usually the meat is still
> part-
> frozen in the centre, yet already partly cooked on the outside by the time
> the
> cycle ends. This is hopeless; it ruins the food.
>
> Any tips? (think I'll go back to defrosting under the running cold tap in
> the
> meantime - but sometimes it would be convenient to do it more quickly).
>
> -P.

About half way thru take the meat out, scrape off the thawed part and put
the rest back in. Then do it again about 3/4ths thru the cycle.

Ms P