Cooking In The Microwave

[joko]

does anybody here actually 'cook' in a microwave?

i dont mean just heating things through or doing bacon or a baked potato, i mean like casseroles, bake cakes etc?

i have found in a pile of prop books a load of 'cooking in the microwave' books and although i knew it was done i am surprised by the sheer amount of stuff you can supposedly cook in one

however, many years ago, when we were kids, me and my sister attempted to make a sponge cake in one ... we had much fun, bounding it around the kitchen floor - literally it bounced! = it was like a rubber disc!


so anybody do it and is the outcome any good?

thanks

[woofgang]

I use it to make cakes, very good ones, occasionally. Its brill for cooking rice and suet puds and dumplings.

[Jeza]

I had a microwave, oven and grill all in one. It drove me mad. I hated it, it was stainless steel and a nightmare to keep clean. I gave it away in the end. No help to you I know, sorry.

[Canary42]

I used to cook a lot in the microwave but since acquiring a halogen oven my microwave use is reduced.

I find it (microwave) very useful when making roux-based sauces, and scrambled eggs - in both cases I make frequent incursions to check progress and to stir - I find this much more successful than using a hob where I often get lumps and/or burn. Probably a personal quirk.

[diddlydo]

Great for cooking fish, béchamel sauce, cheese sauce, scrambled eggs. My dumplings didn't expand properly Woofgang!

[gingejbee]

We have a "1000 microwave recipe" cookbook and have used at least......oh, two of the recipes! So I know where this question comes from.