What do you use your microwave for?

[Hulagn1971]

Reheating coffee, getting water super hot for the SnS reservoir, wife cooks bacon in it.

[dpearce]

reheating coffee and melting butter... The wife and kids use it more so than I do these days. Not really sure what they use it for, but I do know they use it. Because I'm the one that cleans it...

[radiodome21]

We use it for the norm aforementioned uses.

however when we were first married we used it as a bread bin. We got the idea from my wife’s roommate when we visited her in DC once. She said it was great at keeping air out and keeping bread fresh. No idea if there’s any truth to that but in our otherwise large Chicago apartment we had a very small kitchen to space was very limited.

[jayjordan]

Reheating coffee. Baked potatoes. Heating water to brew iced tea. Steamed Veggies in bag.

[Bkhuna]

• Storage of breads (#1 use)
• Soften butter
• Defrosting
• Reheat leftovers
• Corn on the cob

I've found the air fryer to be a superior method that takes only slightly more time than a microwave and produces better results for many things.

[RhodeHog]

I made all my kids learn how to use the "reheat" button instead of entering time and hitting start (we're warming, not cooking here). I melt butter and will do a quick scrambled egg for my granddog. I have shifted to microwaving bacon placed between paper towels just to minimize cleanup.

[texastweeter]

My microwave doubles as a convection oven so we use it a lot, lol. All the aforementioned stuff, plus re-liquifying crystallized honey.

[RichieB]

I've done the honey thing.

[jfmorris]

I have a microwave that also doubles as a convection oven, hoping to assuage the wife's desire for a double oven. We had one but she said she never used it, and we ripped it out 25 years ago in a kitchen remodel, replacing with a single oven. The cabinetry the double oven mounted on was stripped out to make a more open concept, so there is no going back....

Sadly I find that the time to heat that little convection/microwave oven is pretty long, and we tend to forget it has that feature.

[texastweeter]

Really? Mine is there in 10 mins or less to 400° jfmorris

[tamidw]

Reheating, baked potatoes, melting/softening butter, softening cream cheese, steaming/cooking veggies, melting cheese on nachos, defrosting meats. Kid uses it a lot.

oh, also for clock and timer.

[fzxdoc]

Ditto what everyone else said, including tempering chocolate and excluding dog food prep since our pups are long gone...😥

I use it every day for one thing or another. In fact we have two of them. One is a regular microwave and the other is a GE Advantium oven which is trivection oven, so I SpeedCook in it often. It's like a super fancy bigger air fryer. I can get a 9x13 casserole pan in it.

I also use the microwave for the first step of carmelizing onions in the crock pot. I make a big batch of caramelized onions in my 6 Quart Crock Pot, freezing half and making French Onion Soup with the remainder.

Kathryn