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.
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
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.
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.
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.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2012 2:35:51 pm PDT #21648 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We don't have a microwave. But we do eat oatmeal fairly often.
Dana - Sep 10, 2012 2:39:54 pm PDT #21649 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
US Open spoilers:
THIS IS VERY STRESSFUL. I think it might break my heart if Murray loses after being two sets up.
Steph L. - Sep 10, 2012 2:43:43 pm PDT #21650 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I love our nuker. I'm not sure the oven on our stove has ever been used.
I would cook a damn Thanksgiving turkey in ours if I could (and if Tim weren't a vegetarian; I think a turkey would be wasted on a vegetarian). Before I moved in, I think Tim used the microwave to re-heat his coffee, and to heat up water to pour over the pets' kibble.
Really, though. I am at this moment eating one of our favorite quick dinners courtesy of the dynamic duo of Trader Joe's and the microwave: TJs creamy polenta with spinach, with shrimp added at the end. Yup, you can cook it in a pot on the stove. But I don't.
I cook a LOT of stuff in that thing.
Jesse - Sep 10, 2012 2:44:47 pm PDT #21651 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Ellen update is back! She brought out three of the Olympic gymnasts to surprise Pink, and I feel like Pink is an excellent mother because what she said to them was, "You worked so hard!"
Zenkitty - Sep 10, 2012 2:46:09 pm PDT #21652 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Now I'm trying to envision what fake avocado would be like.
If Whole Foods "reduced fat guacamole" is an example, it's mashed peas. See also: yuck.
it sounds like the seller is going to pay to fix the ceiling!
Excellent news!
I've been using the stove more than the microwave lately, which is unusual for me. But when my depression hits, as the last few days, I live on tuna sandwiches, because even microwaving is apparently too much to deal with.