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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I still frequent thrift stores and find many microwave cookbooks. It isn't the recipes are not good, it is especially on the older cookbooks if you do not have that exact model, most of the recipes won't work in other microwave ovens. Second problem was on many things like say a roast, it didn't really save any time and you had to check on it every few minutes.
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OIC. I didn't realize either one of those. If you don't save time and you have to keep getting up and down to check on something, what's the point of having a monkey wave?
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
The newer microwaves generally have the same features across the board. Though note, I cannot use my well never mind as it has been re-donated due to being unusable. It was a 1970's era Kenmore microwave cookbook for the microwave that had the roasting probe.
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Note taken.
I didn't realize that there were home models of microwave ovens in the 1970's. Or did I? Maybe we had one at home. Father was a training specialist at the GE Appliance Park (appliance factory and office building (for engineering, etc., etc. combined into one) in Louisville, Kentucky then. We tended to have the newest major appliances with the newest features. We must have had a microwave back then.
You may find this funny. The very first microwave oven that I remember was in the 1960's--probably about 1967 or 1968. My grandfather worked security at Orkin in Atlanta then, and their break room had a microwave oven. If I'm not mistaken, it was an Amana RadarRange. That may have been the only model that existed at the time.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
The new steam in bag vegetables work pretty well and microwave popcorn.
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Oh yes, of course. They do work well--very well for those purposes, IMHO. The veggies are very healthy for you cooked that way. The popcorn, well . . . . maybe not so much.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I grabbed this one out of curiosity because I don't see how one can do a risotto in the microwave.
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Let us know how it turns out.
You've got a lot of cooking knowledge. Have you ever thought of approaching the local TV stations (if you've got any there. hahahah) and offering to do a cooking show? How good is your public speaking, etc. ability? Even though I'm sure that they would all be taped, you still can get pretty nervous (I was a participant in a weekly TV show years ago, so I know (no, it was not the Bozo show. ha). Most of the time it was live, but occasionally it was taped. It was nerve-wracking even when it was taped and, if worse came to worse, they could edit or you could do part of it over). Rachel Ray and others probably got their start that way. You'd want to offer your services for free initially, and make some kind of audition tape. If you end up making lots of money, like Rachel Ray does, remember your good friends at MobileRead and spread the wealth. Okay? ha