On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:35:51 +1300, Peter Huebner
> wrote:

>
>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.


I have had great success thawing in mine. I pull the meat out of the
freezer in the morning, put it in the microwave, and when I come home
in the evening it is usually defrosted.