Today my 10 year old microwave oven died.
Yet rather than mourning its loss, I am quite pleased.
We have all heard the horror stories of carcinogenic plastics entering our food when we heat things in the microwave, and while I am not certain of their truth, I am happy to try old ways of heating my food for a while.
I thought my husband would insist that I buy a new one immediately, but he too is happy to try going without. Our goal is to buy a new home fairly soon and it would be silly to buy a new microwave now only to have it not fit in our next kitchen.
I thought my husband would insist that I buy a new one immediately, but he too is happy to try going without. Our goal is to buy a new home fairly soon and it would be silly to buy a new microwave now only to have it not fit in our next kitchen.
I remember when my mother bought her first microwave in the 1980s. She held off for a while because she was concerned about radiation entering her food, but eventually she succumbed and bought one. A teenager at the time, I scorned her fears and was pleased that she was entering the modern era. Mum soon bought a Women's Weekly microwave cookbook and even attended microwave cooking classes at the local high school.
Like most people these days we mostly use our microwave for reheating drinks and warming up meals. I have never baked a cake in the microwave and I rarely even cook vegetables in it.
Yet I wonder how I'll manage without one? I've never been microwaveless before. In a week or two I'll let you know how this experiment is going.
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I would find it interesting to see how much I have come to rely on it, if mine died. I think ours is used a little more ~ defrosting meat and reheating meals, cooking some of our vegetables and heating my wheat bags to warm up my bed.
Yes, I suspect I would miss it quite a bit. I hope you do just fine without yours!
Mine died a couple of years ago and my thought processes were along the same line as yours. So far we've managed without it - it just means being a bit more time-conscious because it takes longer to reheat things the old-fashioned way :)
I have no plans at this stage to buy one again..
I, too, am microwaveless. Our apartment came with a built in microwave, but our new house doesn't have one. It has put quite a damper on my morning hot cereals, because I don't have enough time to stand over the stove and stir. But we're getting along okay without it for now. The defrost is the one thing I miss the most, but a bowl of cold water defrosts most meats in half an hour.
RIP...
I know what you mean about the old ways maybe being safer, though.
As for plastics, I'm now looking at our plastic kettle with a LOT of suspicion. I think it will be going on TradeMe in the next week or two, as soon as I have saved up for an old style, stick-it, on-the-hob metal one.
I think you'll do fine - just no microwaveable popcorn! I need to start cooking it the old-fashioned way on the stove, like my mother did when I was growing up!
You'll make it! When my husband moved in with me many years ago I didn't have a microwave. He didn't bring one with him and asked me how I heated things up - I told him 'on the stove, in a pot.' He got used to that..
We were married for several years before we got a microwave as a gift. I didn't use it for a while but now-10 yrs later I use it quite a bit - mostly for defrosting, popcorn and frozen vegggies. I don't put plastic in it though - just in case. But I like to think that if we never recieved the microwave as a gift I would not have bought one.
Oh, now I imagine you will slow down the pace of life, as you reheat the slower way...perhaps you can stop and smell the roses too...oft times we just skip the slow stuff, as we are in such an awful hurry.
bless your slow down time my friend.
Happy house saving too. (we are orphan/adoption saving currently!)
Kimmie
mama to 7
one homemade and 6 adopted
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