• Dr. Wesker
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    478 months ago

    I exclusively microwave everything in plastic, because I just want it all to end.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        One of my ex’s was depressed and wanted to end it all…so she picked up smoking, not heavily, like a pack a week, so…playing the long game and all that.

        • @KnitWit
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          8 months ago

          The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

          -Kurt Vonnegut

      • Dr. Wesker
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        58 months ago

        It can’t look too suspicious, or else insurance won’t pay out.

      • @Etterra
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        38 months ago

        Like microwaving metal?

        • @Dicska
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          48 months ago

          Microwaving TNT

  • @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    For the love of god stop putting food in contact with plastic, stop using plastic in food processing machinery, stop pork and other garbage feeding, stop replacing copper pipes with plastic tubes in homes, stop using plasic to make fabrics, stop using plastic to make tires, stop…

  • @Etterra
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    58 months ago

    How else am I going to get my daily allowance of vitamin P?

  • @DocSportello
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    58 months ago

    But the metal always lights up the whole kitchen.

  • @dejected_warp_core
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    38 months ago

    I stopped doing this a long, long time ago. It’s one of the reasons that microwave dinners are a no-go for me, and why my leftover food storage is mostly glass.

    I honestly thought everyone else could smell and taste the hot plastic, and just knew this was a bad idea?

  • @[email protected]
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    -148 months ago

    Also don’t microwave in ceramic/glass dishes because they get too hot

    I don’t know what to microwave in

    • @gaylord_fartmaster
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      118 months ago

      Well since we’ve ruled everything else out, the answer has to be metal.

      • @[email protected]
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        -88 months ago

        Nah it’s still hot after. And then one might wanna stream a show or something, holding a plate with an oven mitten is just unreasonable.

    • @dejected_warp_core
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      28 months ago

      You have choices, but sadly, “let the microwave do all the work” isn’t one of them.

      You can use the automatic “heat dinner” or whatever feature, but this is going to make everything in the oven way above eating temperature. Including the bowl. You meal will be fully thawed, but you need oven mitts to retrieve it.

      You can also heat a few minutes at a time, stirring in between heatings. Passive convection of your soup doesn’t work as well as you think, and even with a turntable, there are going to be cold spots. Doing this will save you time and energy. But you can forget doing much else in the meantime; I recommend scrolling Lemmy on your phone while you wait.

      A solid compromise is to have a bowl or terrine (with handles if you can find it) that you use as a microwave cooking vessel. Then, transfer your lava-hot meal to a cooler bowl. By then it’ll be closer to eating temperature anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        I kinda agree but then two dishes in the washer.

        This situation clearly needs innovation