I always go six minutes. Fight me.
There is no use for a microwave because I have good cooking tools and skill.
So reheating something takes at least 30 minutes for your oven to warm up?
You must work on your time management skills.
No-one brought up your cooking skills, though now I’m wondering why you’re instantly so defensive about them.
When reheating food on a plate, I just put protein first for 30-60s, then add carbs (rice, pasta, or potato) and heat it all together for more 30-60s or until it’s steaming. Always full power.
If the instructions give me any nonsense I just do the math and use the power level function.
I bought a microwave to make my life easier, I’ll be damned if I’m gonna flip food over because someone doesn’t understand how to write instructions involving the power level button
Never over 50% power. I’m always shocked by how many people don’t know how to use a microwave. I usually worked a long time on my food, I don’t want to ruin it through lazy reheating.
What do you mean, never? Do you never heat water, coffee, tea, …? Or just larger quantities where more power is no problem even for longer durations? This is not a fundamental thing, the optimum is different not just based on type, amount and distribution of food, additionally things like time constraints, container or cleaning matter.
Never for reheating leftovers, anyway, which is 99% of what I use a microwave for. I have a kettle for other stuff. Overly high heat is gonna turn your proteins into rubber and exaggerate the “flaming hot on the outside, still cold in the middle” effect. There’s also lots of other stuff like arranging things to avoid dead spots, making use of coverings to trap steam, not throwing your vegetables that will take a minute to warm up in at the beginning with the big hunk of pasta that’s gonna need several minutes to heat through, etc.
But yeah if you’re reheating your food on >50% power you are almost definitely making it turn out worse than it would be on lower power.
How does heat turn things into rubber? The meat I reheat was already cooked? Or am I always too gentle to experience that? I usually do not heat up to boiling hot since I want to eat it and not have to let it cool down first.
Again, your generalization does not make sense. 50 % of a 1000 Watts microwave is different to one with 600 Watts. Heating up a bit of leftover is different to something for multiple persons. Etc. etc.
The difference in heating is negligible, but the time saved sure isn’t. Always at 100%
That is why I do most reheating on the stove, in the oven or on the contact grill (depends on what it is).
Full 900w every time, because that’s what the package asks for. Except when it asks for 1000w.
Only time I use the power level selector is for poached eggs. If I’m reheating something where I actually care about how it turns out I’ll usually use the oven 😂
Microwave for 5 minutes at 70%, no mixing or flipping just fire and forget. Go play Slay the Spire while you wait.
Guy on left, but for 5 minutes instead
I’ve gotten down air frying my frozen microwave breakfast sandwiches down to a science. They never felt right in the microwave no matter what I tried.
- Preheat to 350° F, set to 6 minutes, turn on turn reminder.
- Separate the bun, sausage, egg, and cheese while you wait for pre heat to be done. Set then in the fridge.
- Once preheated, put the sausage on a bun and egg on a bun in the basket and put it in the air fryer. Leave the cheese in the fridge for now.
- After 3 minutes the turn reminder will go off. The sausage and egg are cool enough to touch base handed still. Flip the sausage. Flip the egg too, but put the cheese under the egg as well.
- When it’s done it’s hotter so you might need to use something to grab it instead of using a your bare hands.
Perfection.
When I’ve tried just nuking it in full for X seconds in the microwave there is always something frozen in the middle.
The dumb “nuke it on full for 90 seconds” one. No thought put into it, I just know it will be edible by my standards.
Most microwavable food is already edible because it is a dumb idea to use a microwave for much more than reheating food, because it requires time and microwaves consume a ton of power for the heat they provide. The advantage of microwaves is that they have very little heatup time which makes it good for short blasts.
“Palatable” would have been a better choice of words. I’m generally not very picky.
Cooking in the microwave is wild to me. I’m Mexican and we treat it as a reheating machine with a clock and a bunch of buttons that do nothing.
Double time half power gang. It’s so much better. I can wait an extra 90 sec for it to be evenly heated.
Everything tells me it’s meant for an 1100 watt microwave, but my microwave is 1250 watts, so by setting it to 90% power, it’s almost perfect.
Double time, half power. Everything just tastes better, it’s heated more evenly and less dried out/mushy
The amazing thing is I can’t get people to try it… Every time I mention it people look at me like I’m crazy to suggest they wait an extra 3 minutes for their food
80% of people probably have no idea that microwaves have power settings
Neither. I’m 2m30s or 80% for reheating a meal.
Same. Calm, long heating for the most even results. When you know what makes microwaves work, it just makes sense. But it all depends on what type of results you’re looking to get, and what type of thing you’re heating. 🤷♂️
Too complicated. Put it on the never buy again list.
