Orang Utan
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as long as the skin is nice and wrinkled and slightly crispIs it ok to start the cooking process in a microwave and transfer to oven?
as long as the skin is nice and wrinkled and slightly crispIs it ok to start the cooking process in a microwave and transfer to oven?
You seem to have missed the point of doing the spud in a microwave - speed. I agree that the skin is nowhere near as nice, and the flavour lacks something, but if you've only got half an hour to eat and get somewhere else it's not the worst option.<snip>baked spuds have a luscious semi-crispy skin that microwaves can't do. what's wrong with wanting that? that's why baked potatoes go in the oven. for the skin. microwaved potatoes are an abomination in the same way a microwave 'roast' would be.
i agreeIf I've only got half an hour then there's no time for baked potato.
Zapped in 4 minutes at the most. Sorry, spent several years having half an hour to change, eat and get out again. Sometimes the alternatives aren't filling enough.If I've only got half an hour then there's no time for baked potato.
pasta, stir fry, steak, even pie and mash.Zapped in 4 minutes at the most. Sorry, spent several years having half an hour to change, eat and get out again. Sometimes the alternatives aren't filling enough.
The politics of envy?i never had a microwave, so it was never an option anyway
huh?The politics of envy?
Never? Seriously? Are you sure you're not one of my (slightly luddite) inlaws?i never had a microwave, so it was never an option anyway
Is that what you made?Y_I_Otter said:But Lafcadio Hearn's Creole gumbo from his 1885 New Orleans cookbook won the day, as God intended it.
I had one very briefly, and didn't like the way it cooked things, so I got rid of it again. Haven't had one for more than 10 years.Never? Seriously? Are you sure you're not one of my (slightly luddite) inlaws?
I just have difficulty believing that considering how many people had access to a microwave from the mid 80s onwards. Even if it wasn't theirs, just one in a kitchen they could use.
Another one with no microwave...I did have one of those convector microwave ovens but lent it to a mate with no cooker 6 years ago so I now consider it his. I only miss it when I pick up puddings that say microwave only.
Tonight I'm having Cauldron veggie sausages (x2), mash potato* and onion gravy** and veggies including broccoli
* years ago me and a friend stopped at another friends house before going to see The Orb, his mum announced that dinner was ready and it was (for the veggies) 'pizza and creamed potato'...I was all like 'wow what's this we are having' and then out came the mash!!! It was also served with salad which made me go 'wtf' too.
**first time making onion gravy & using the link ringo posted. Means I have to buy wine though.