I have lived without a microwave for about 10 years. Beau does not like them at all. I now have a microwave. We have not used it since we moved in. I don't even know if it works.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2012 1:43:52 pm PDT #21638 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela - Sep 10, 2012 1:50:19 pm PDT #21639 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Who needs a microwave?
Me, too. I sautee onions in it, and reheat oatmeal, and melt butter for baking, and heat up my leftovers. I was at my brother's house in Chicago this weekend, and they have neither a microwave nor a toaster. (Nor an electric kettle.) But they rarely eat at home, either.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2012 1:50:26 pm PDT #21640 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why does he not like them? I mean, I did not needing one, or thinking they don't have sufficient purpose to exist, but not liking?
Connie Neil - Sep 10, 2012 1:53:51 pm PDT #21641 of 30001
brillig
I love our nuker. I'm not sure the oven on our stove has ever been used.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2012 1:55:00 pm PDT #21642 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
I think he is just suspicious of it. And he thinks it changes the taste of food.
Cass - Sep 10, 2012 1:57:50 pm PDT #21643 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Just in terms of the fuss of hot cereal mine has been a total win
This. The three weeks I lived without one, I was frustrated nearly every morning because I wanted easy oatmeal. Or to quickly reheat leftovers.
Glamcookie - Sep 10, 2012 1:58:01 pm PDT #21644 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
We barely use our microwave. At our last place, we didn't even own one and we lived there for about 8 years.
Jesse - Sep 10, 2012 2:02:43 pm PDT #21645 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, basically I find I don't need it. I don't eat oatmeal, but find pretty much everything easy enough to do without one.
askye - Sep 10, 2012 2:06:48 pm PDT #21646 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I wasn't using my microwave for awhile but when I my depression started creeping back in I started using it again. Lately I've been mostly eating steam packs of frozen veggies or veggie mixes, frozen chicken or meatballs and frozen rice. Occasionally I've gone all crazy and sliced up sausage and heated in the pan or roasted whole ears of corn in the oven.
If I wasn't doing this I'd be eating out every meal.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2012 2:11:05 pm PDT #21647 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oatmeal, hot Alpen, softening butter, defrosting anything, reheating in the same dish I'm going to eat out of, or in the same dish it was stored in--those are my key uses. And then sometimes TV dinners.
No longer reheating tea, because the tea machine is fucking insane quick on that front, plus I can yank it when it reaches 200 degrees.