Do Americans really microwave water?

Do Americans really microwave water?

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I've done it on occasion. It is more quick than a stove, and it fits my purposes. Why would I not?

Don't you have an electric kettle?

good luck heating anything else than water with a microwace

I probably should have said "quicker than a stove."

No, I own no kettles.

ahh this old troll bait
why wouldn't you microwave it? do you hate convenience?

>Americans owning kettles
Sorry kid, that's not common place in the U.S.

only on tuesdays, also FUCK TUESDAYS!

shut up and get outta here macaco

they also microwave dogs and iphones ;^)

Yes. They also add sugar and chemical flavoring to it.

Sure do, can cook ramen and heat water for coco packets.

I'm absolutely certain some Americans do.
I am American and I don't even own a microwave.
Everything that you can microwave is better if done with a stove except instant noodles, and I don't each much of that crap anyways.

yeah i think they want to give guns to teachers for safety reasons too

hope you don´t stop eaching alltogether
we would be missing you

>cook food in 3 minutes in microwave
>>OTHER OPTION LISTED ON PACKAGING
>preheat oven. wait for it to get to temp.cook food for 45 minutes.Spend over an hour to get it cooked.
Hmm
easy option here

no wonder your healthcare sucks

I have wonderful healthcare...that i pay for

>OTHER OPTION LISTED ON PACKAGING
>PACKAGING
Not everyone eats junk

You have to remember, this is a country that thinks everything should be in a can. They also chlorinate meat.

Fucking chlorinate it. As in chlorine you'd find in swimming pool water. What the absolute fuck!

now imagine having that, without paying
>just blew your mind

Reheating rice or mashed potato? Microwave job.
How do you do it?

>without paying
Hows that 60%+ income tax working out for you?

"Free" healthcare countries have horrible service.

What are the income tax rates on the US?

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>Reheating rice
Not him, but I only eat jasmine rice, it's fucking delicious. Leftovers are fried on the stove, tossed with some eggs, and other shit.
>leftover mashed potato
I would never eat that

Next year will be 12% for me. Im not the user you were talking to, but I do live in Murica

No where near that retardation

Is this keeping you up at night?

So if you are a single that grosses $50k what's your take home?

Honestly, I cook a new meal and manage the amount cooked so that there is not a ton of leftover.
I don't believe my entire life needs to be lived under the premise of instant gratification. The smell of something cooking can raise anticipation and help you enjoy the food more. 2 minute hot pockets are just shit you shovel into your body, not something to be savored and enjoyed.
That's not to say that there is no place for quick, cheap food. Sometimes you really need to get moving quickly. But it's good to take time to make something real as often as you can.
For instance, I'm making a stew right now and it's been going for about 18 hours now and it's almost ready. The house smells amazing and I've been waiting to munch down on it all day.

>Honestly, I cook a new meal and manage the amount cooked so that there is not a ton of leftover.
Why would you do this? Do you realize how much of your life you could save by making a ton of leftovers, and storing them in containers for later meals, so that you don't have to cook so much?

i admire that endurance.
i know what you're talking about, unfortunately i hate cookimg because all i do is stare at my food and stand there, while most of the time going to toilet or smth will make it burned.
It does however totally pay up if you do get over that, not only is it more healthy, it's also a lot better in taste.

lol

Oh? I enjoy cooking. It's one of my hobbies. What you are saying is that cooking is a waste of time and I could be better served doing something else with my time.
I wonder.... what do you think I should be doing with my time if not doing something I enjoy and that is healthy and will keep me alive a decade longer than someone shoveling hotpockets into their mouths will live?
I spend less time cooking than you probably spend watching TV.

Guy from Sweden here. I earn 50k a year and after tax I take home 3k. People on benefits get 30k untaxable and a non white would take home about 12k to allow them to 'catch up'. Wish we had the American system, fuck socialism.

Yes. Boil water in the microwave and then use a cloth to wipe it out. Super clean with no chemicals.

*If* you cook enough, you get a feeling for how long things will need to cook. You'll find yourself staring at the food less often and going off to do other stuff. I don't even monitor steaks and still manage to hit med-rare about 95% of the time. Occasionally I overcook a little bit and end up closer to medium.
I understand that it might not be worth your investment in time to get that good at it, but there is a point where it becomes second nature and you just aren't staring at a not so boiling pot.
I've been cooking since my father taught me when I was 10. That makes it 27 years now, so it's just not much effort for me.

>I enjoy cooking. It's one of my hobbies.
Oh? Then no problem, m8. No need to get all aggressive. It's one of my hobbies too, I fucking love cooking.

>I spend less time cooking than you probably spend watching TV.
I don't watch TV. I have a library in my house.

No. Some recepies require microwave and cannot be done without

No but I used one in a hotel overseas and it was pretty convenient.

Only for ramen

Bullshit. What fucking recipe would EVER require a microwave?????

Well, I wasn't be aggressive until the end. You sounded like you were telling me I was wasting my time cooking (you were, though maybe you did not mean it that way). I also don't watch TV, though I don't have a library. I've read thousands of books though over my life. Love reading.
Oh? What recipes are those then?

Anything with melted butter like pasta for one.

again, that's essentially how my mom did/does it most of the time.
I do get zhat pratice makes it better, but i still refuse to do that, as i just can't stand it. Also i often will cook food like noodles with sauce powder or some unhealthy shit, which only takes about 15 minutes, but still is an eternity to me.
i do get caught up on programming projects on my pc, so taking 15 mins of often gets me out of my "flow", however, i need to eat at some point.

Um... you can melt butter in a saucepan over low heat on a burner.....

Yeah, and they Microwave their Brains with Cellphone towers on every block disguised as Tree's.

Yeah but it takes seconds in the microwave so the pasta didn't get cold.

Another one is Tilda rice in the packets. Better then most stove rice. Elegent, doesn't go soggy, no mess and done in two minutes.

Well, then a microwave is probably pretty damned convenient for you. I don't have a problem with microwaves, just an opinion that food is better when prepared without one. Things are crispier when they are supposed to be crispy, heated evenly etc. If a microwave is your preferred MO, then I have nothing bad to say about it.

Just add a little water. Keep stirring it. Heats up in a couple minutes

Microwave broke about a decade ago and didn't feel a real need to get another one. Its nice for some things like a way quicker baked potato but it really isn't a necessity.

>You sounded like you were telling me I was wasting my time cooking (you were, though maybe you did not mean it that way)
I didn't mean it that way, just offering a little life-hack I learned from bodybuilding. It's called meal-prepping. I see why you thought that, though. Fuck TV, is right. I had a weed moment when I was like 16, where I basically realized how I was watching other people live their lives. It snapped me out of that shit.

i mainly use the oven for frozen food

>Yeah but it takes seconds in the microwave so the pasta didn't get cold.
>Another one is Tilda rice in the packets. Better then most stove rice. Elegent, doesn't go soggy, no mess and done in two minutes.
I feel bad for people that can't cook.

i should get an electric kettle, have a regular metal one for tea and coffee, amerifag here btw and i've never microwaved water, although poorfags do for cup ramen and shit

Yeah, it's easier & quicker
>USA 1 Your shit country 0

The point here is that none of these are recipes that can only be done in a microwave. I can replicate the Tilda rice recipe on a stove just fine, I'm sure. Though I've never had it so I can't do it right now. Rice can be tricky for something so simple. It's easy to both overcook and undercook it. But it's simple once you figure it out. Rice/water maybe salt if you want it. Stove heat to boil, reduce, cover. Wait appropriate time, done. You don't even need to be in the kitchen for the 20 minutes it's cooking.
And you can prepare your butter while your food is cooking. It will give you something to do other than watching time tick by on a microwave.
I'm still waiting for a microwave only recipe. Which you won't find since a microwave simulates a stove, which means you can always do it on the stove.

you're literally retarded... "some recipes require microwave" wtf new era food requires a microwave...

asian amerifag here, bought a nice expensive rice cooker, shit is cash, never have to worry about rice burning in a little pot

#1 fat, amiright

Microwave it's unique because it heats up a lot food that contains water and not so much food that is dry; because of this it's often used when there is something soft (cheese, chocolate) that you want melted without altering too much what's around it.
For example my favourite dessert is a little chocolate cake that you have to keep cold, then when you are ready to serve it you pass it 25 seconds in the microwave and the chocolate core melts inside leaving the outside still cold (the outside is sponge cake, so it has less water than the chocolate that you previously put inside)
Most stuff can be done without microwave though

Tilda rice takes 2 minutes.

yes

Ferran Adria, aka the best chef ever, uses microwaves for certain things. Get over yourself faggot

literally who?

South Dakota here. I drink 4-8 mugs of microwaved water a day.

Microwave radiation partially ionizes the water molecule. This makes the water able to more fully extract the vitamins and essential nutrients from any food you have in your stomach. It’s any easy way to stay healthy, live longer, and avoid many common diseases like the common cold and influenza.

Rice in a sieve above water in a stock pot
Mashed potatoes in a regular frying pan

What's not basic about this?

melting chocolate in the microwave sounds terrible

When I was in my 20s we had a rice cooker. Beer budget, so we ate a lot of rice back then. It was the main course most days. Nowadays rice is a side, so I don't find much need of it though they are still amazing for making rice. I won't deny that it's the smarter way to do rice in particular.
You are correct in how the microwave operates. But you could also do that cake with a stove, though it would likely take you a couple hours. I'm not denying microwaves can be convenient in some situations. I just think food is better when prepared traditionally. Some user said outright that there were microwave ONLY recipes. I'm just trying to find one recipe that is microwave only (not a prepackaged food that was, ironically cooked with an oven/stove in the first place).

kek

10/10

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true, im an asiafag so that shit is a staple in my diet so it was a worthy investment

Literally google?

I microwave pods

This guy really loves his fucking Tilda rice.

It’s clear you eat alone and eat like shit every night. Learn to cook.

>not getting my implication that i neithe know that guy, nor car
>not knowing it's also a meme

Tea should be consumed cold and with the option of a ton of sugar.

Why? It works really well

That recipe is microwave only, because its very last step before serving, which is also the most important,can't be done without. And i don't think it could be done with a stove, everything would heat up uniformly, not just the chocolate core

Enjoy your cancer at 45 years old faggot

You have a point

The US runs homes on 120volts and electric kettles won't heat water at the same speed as the UK

Idk where the other Eurofag lives, but here you pay either like 36 or 45%
Healthcare insurance is mandatory, you get some cashback from the government if you dont make enough to pay it on your own. It's a great deal and a lot cheaper than in the US. Substracting the cashback I pay around €30 a month. For those €30 I get basic mandatory healthcare (which isnt basic at all, quite large coverage, the /b traps would get free HRT and tits) AND I get 2 voluntary expansion packages.

This.

All these other retards don't understand. Fucking europoors

Provide scientific evidence that the process does anything harmful to humans.

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>using green text as implying yet failing to imply

>you don't nor car

>greentext doesn't have multible ourposes
>hurr durr imma goung grammar nazi cause everybody is in my timezone

Opposite side of the wave spectrum newfag

Get a load of this newfag

Nice to meet you goung

Maybe you should learn to cook rice. Because it sounds like you actually cant even do that.

Do you have a lady? I doubt she'll be as much into microwaves as you are. Unless she's obese, of course. You sound American, so chances of being overweight are already bigger than 50%.

;^)
konichiwa

I am totally with you.

I cook fresh, buy fresh, live by the coast, we go to the farm to get our eggs and vegetables, we buy our fish direct from the fishermen, we buy our meat straight from the farm.

Wouldn't be without a microwave. Its for speed with fresh food.

Here's an example of what I mean, I hope you will agree.

You buy a farm fresh chicken and roast it, day 1 you have roast chicken. You then take the leftover meat for a stir-fry. But you don't want to eat chicken 2 days in a row, so you make it, pop it in the fridge and do something else on day 2. Day 3, pull out your stir-fry, microwave it, 2 minutes, dinner for family. Chicken is is slow cooker, strain broth for ramen, mash it for stew, make dumplings for like, 8-10 people, leftovers get frozen.

2000 days later, frozen leftovers oot, microwave, dinner quick.

I use microwave to reheat fresh food. Plus, if you are cooking 5-10 dishes and need to reheat before table, 10 seconds and you can get everything copacetic again.

Its not a cooking tool, its a reheating tool and for that it beats the shit out of any other appliance.

Fuck you nigga I just want to make oatmeal

then how do you boil water for your instant coffee?

>Instant coffee

Die

>then how do you boil water for your instant coffee?
I don't know anyone who uses instant who's under like 60 or it's in the kitchen of some blue collar worksite where it's purely convenience.

One of the best and few good purposes of a microwave if you actually know about cooking.