Nuke Em!

[WillyBWright]

I knew that would get your attention. <br /><br />This is actually about Microvave Cooking. I'd like to see some favorite recipes, but more of the offbeat things you can do with a Microwave, and maybe some "Learned the Hard Way" stories.<br /><br />One day my 11 year old son wanted some breakfast and all I had was my kind of cereal. Nope, not good enough! I had a box of generic just-add-water pancake mix and no time before school. I mixed some up, buttered a paper plate, and nuked a pancake on the plate for 2 minutes. It doesn't get golden brown and it's not as fluffy, but it's soft and tasty without a lot of oil. Very non-traditional, but it temporarily stopped the droning "I'm Hungry" I'll be plagued with for his upcoming teen years.

 

[achris]

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OK, you got me!

 

[fixin]

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Our kids love the Nuked smores,Gram cracker,piece of chocolate,marshmallow,nuke for 20sec.even if you don't like smores,you gota see what it does to the marshmallow,it will get as big as a softball!

 

[JasonJ]

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I would have never made it through the formula time with my daughter if it wasn't for the glorious microwave oven. Unfortunately, I have no recipes, I only ever use it to reheat things, defrost things, or boil things. I still prefer the oven for cooking (except the occasion quicky microwave dinner in a box).

 

[roscoe]

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Did I ever tell you guys what happened to my cat?

 

[Link]

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WillyBWright<br /><br />A tradition on Easter<br />Dueling Peeps! <br />You know them little marsh mellow bird things that come in different colors?<br />Each team picks a color. A toothpick is inserted in each bird and placed on a paper plate.<br />Put in microwave and set to two minutes on high.<br />As the birds expand and start to fall over, one will poke the other causing it to collapse and loose the fight!<br />

 

[spratt]

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Originally posted by roscoe:<br /> Did I ever tell you guys what happened to my cat?

About a year ago, police in Seatlle were called to an apartment for animal abuse. Upon their arrival, they were met by a concerned looking man of obvious Asian descent, who couldn't understand why ti was wrong to bar-b-q a cat on his patio grill...<br /><br />Must say, never heard of nuking one tho

 

[fixin]

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What movie was that they were sticking the poodle in the microwave to dry it off???

 

[Rudderman]

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Get a casserole dish, slice up lots of potatoes and some onions in thin slices. Layer them into the dish, potato, then onion...and so on...and put some blobs of butter on top....and then pop it in the microwave on "medium" for about 15 mins. Take it out and grate lots of cheese on top. Fire it back in for a few minutes to melt the cheese....<br />Tastes surprisingly good!

 

[lostintexas]

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1. get AOL CD from the mail<br />2. place AOL CD on a paper plate and place in the micro wave oven.<br /><br />3. set for 2 minutes.<br /><br />4. watch.<br /><br />5. buy new microwave when the wife complains of the odor.

 

[sangerwaker]

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Hey lostintexas,<br />I like the recipe idea, but if I followed it I'd be even more broke because of the 27 microwaves I would have had to buy!

 

[swimmin' for shore]

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Microwave soap. Your house will smell interesting all day, and soap forms all kinds of cool shapes after being microwaved.

 

[EFIS]

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Baby dolphin also goes well on the grill,<br />but you cant eat a whole one

 

[Link]

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WillyBWright<br /><br />On a more serious note there isn't much that I haven't cooked in a microwave. When we got our first microwave in 85 I vowed that I was going to learn how to cook with it and NOT be like all of our friends and just heat or re-heat with it. <br />In the first 2 years I must have RUINED enough food to feed a family of 4 for 6 months! <br /><br />Had two microwave and for 2 years thats almost all I used for every meal.<br /><br />I use only corn beef hash made from scratch but got the idea from this recipe. Even buying the smallest peice of corn beef it usually makes about 6 meals so I vacum seal and freeze the left overs for this recipe. <br /><br />Baked Eggs on Corn Beef Hash<br /> <br />1 can (12 oz) corn beef hash<br />4 eggs<br />4 tablespoons shredded ceddar (sharp) cheese<br />salt and pepper to taste<br /><br />4 servings<br />prep time almost none<br />Cook time 10-16 minutes<br />Note 1: With a newer microwave cut cook time almost in half. This book was written in 1985<br /><br />Divide the can of corn beef hash evenly between four 4-inch micro-type custard cups.<br />With the back of a spoon, make a hollow in the center of the hash.<br />Use HIGH cycle and cook 5 minutes. <br />Break egg into the hollow.<br />Pierce egg yolk carefully with a toothpick.<br />Sprinkle each egg with 1 tablespoon cheese.<br />Cover with paper towel.<br />Use [7] cycle and cook for 5 to 6 minutes, or until egg white is nearly opaque and hash is hot. <br />Let stand, covered, for 1 minute before serving.<br /><br />This makes a quick and easy breakfast or dinner.<br /><br />Note 2: Pierce each egg yolk twice BTDT many times in the early days with yolks exploding! <br /><br /> <br /><br />Note 3: Use lower power setting when placing CD in Microwave. Same light show but doesn't leave order in cooking machine ! yes Yes YES BTDT too !<br /><br /> <br /><br />On a techie note. Using a lower power setting doesn't mean if you are using a 1000 watt microwave and you pick 50% power level that you are using say 500 watts. Its just 1000 watts with a cooling off period between bursts of RF so the CD/food doesn't heat up! Same light show but in bursts!

 

[rodbolt]

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hello<br /> funniest thing I ever heard was when the owner of owen oil tool decided to use the kitchen nuker to dry RDX. lucky everyone bailed out. his wife got a remodled kitchen . that was out near godley texas almost to cresson. to my knowledge that was the one and only attepmt at speed drying RDX.

 

[WillyBWright]

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Here I was about to start a new thread "Best Way to Blow-Up a Microwave". But you already won!

 

[gaugeguy]

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When we got our first microwave when I was I kid I decided to make poached eggs. Bowl of water, 2 eggs in the bowl and cook for a couple minutes. Bell goes off, grab bowl out of microwave, take fork and try to get eggs out of bowl and they exploded (really exploded) like a bomb going off. Mom wasn't happy about pieces of egg all over the kitchen

 

[mellowyellow]

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nuke food? yuck! must have fire... <br />they are very good for pre-cooking lots of stuff.<br />cuts down oven time dramatically. baked taters,<br />frozen pizza, frozen f-fies etc.

 

[Mr.Ladyfish]

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I "quick dried" a pair of socks in the microwave once. Worked pretty good except it melted all of the elastic and made the kitchen smell like melted rubber. LF didn't think much of my ingenuity. Sometimes she doesn't have much of a sense of humor.

 

[U.S.S. Too Tall]

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When I was a kid, I wanted to make some popcorn. All it takes is 3 and a half minutes. Well, I must have pressed something wrong because I think the 3:30 turned into 33:00. So, I walked away, and forgot about the popcorn till all I could see was black smoke coming down the hallway!!! Needless to say, Mom didnt think it was as funny as I did!!!!

Of course, it was the last bag of popcorn that we had at the time.....And I think that I was band from the microwave for awhile...