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0 pointsiridium_core5y ago0 comments

If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.

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gotem5y ago

Me too. You can even go faster by sealing the food with some insulator (e.g. plastic or tinfoil) to make it retain heat and cook faster in the microwave.

criddell5y ago

Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?

knicknic5y ago

That’s what the government wants you to believe.

smichel175y ago

I don't know the answer to this, but my grandma has an old microwave with a metal grill that your food rests on (like a rack in a conventional oven). I am not sure if it is the type of metal or the shape (it has a squiggly bend on each side, in the middle[0]), but it's definitely possible for metal to go in the microwave without sparking.

[0] very similar to this https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg

Geezus_425y ago

I believe that depends whether it's actually tin or instead aluminum.

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