How much extra time to cook 2 christmas puddings in a 750microwave

[Juddshep]

If 1 pudding (907g)
needs 12 min 2 min standing
how much extra time for 2

[sunny-dave]

It's not an exact science - I usually add about 50% to the time for double the quantity - so perhaps 17 or 18 minutes.

But keep a close eye on them - certainly check after 15 mins.

The standing time doesn't change.

[douglas9401]

I'd do them one at a time and wrap the first one in foil to keep it warm while the second was spinning.

[Buenchico]

Cut puddings into individual portions. Microwave each portion, one at a time, for 50 seconds. Add cream/brandy sauce (or whatever) to the first portion while microwaving the second, and so on. Within a few minutes you'll have served everyone, without the possibility of seeing smoke coming from your microwave oven (which can happen all too easily if you get it wrong when microwaving Christmas pud!)

[Written from experience] ;-)

Chris

[EDDIE51]

LIke Chris I have seen a Christmas pud catch fire by being too long in the microwave.

[ChuckFickens]

I do them in the oven and leave the microwave free to heat the brandy for a couple of minutes before pouring it over the puds and setting fire to it.

[sunny-dave]

So have I - very exciting it is too ... hence my conservative timings and the need to check regularly :)

[ChuckFickens]

That should be the other way round...

Heat the brandy, set fire to it and then pour it over the pud..

[nungate]

Picture the scene if you will. queenie and me in the kitchen making flapjacks (well she was young) when the plaintive cry goes up "mum, why is there smoke coming from the microwave?" "Because the chocolate to pour over the flappies is on fire, pet" It's so easy to burn things in the microwave - I'd follow Chris's idea of slicing and so forth

[sunny-dave]

I still remember accidentally giving a poor harmless spud 40 minutes of flat out nuking (instead of a combi programme) ... opening the door was a very bad idea - when the fresh oxygen hit the blackened, shrivelled tattie it caught fire in a very spectacular (to a pyromaniac) or frightening (to me) way.

[nungate]

Confession time. As well as setting the microwave on fire, I have also blown up a computer (twice) and an mp3 player - could this be the reason whenever I get a new gadget, everyone leaves the room until I get it working? (even the cats leave!)

[ethandron]

We've just made our puds and microwaved a 2lb one for 4 minutes, rested it for 4 minutes and then microwaved it for a further 4 minutes...we are talking cooking them aren't we, not reheating them?? We've done them like this for the last fifteen years.
I would defo do them one at a time and be very wary of overdoing them, they go hard as rocks if you cook them for too long in the micro.

[atalanta]

Anything which is more than half sugar should not be heated in the microwave at all. That includes the natural sugars in the dried fruit and the treacle or syrup as well as the sugar itself.