What 'mistakes' did you make cooking food in a microwave oven?

The worst I did was trying to make small meatballs. I made little brown cannon balls instead.

Grumpy Old Git2012-11-15T01:44:42Z

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I covered a dish of curry I was heating in tinfoil.

The ensuing pyrotechnics had me diving for cover behind the cat.

Well I didn't know did I?

Parke2012-11-16T23:41:35Z

The first i used a microwave, I overcooked a hotdog and came out a shriveled rubber tube,

Mike K2012-11-15T17:57:27Z

Hello,

None, for fast cooking I use a pressure cooker. According to the world's top chefs a microwave oven is only good for two things:

1) Thawing out frozen items when you are in a hurry to use them.

2) Re-heating left overs.

I heard that years ago and never used a microwave to cook dinners again.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Power2012-11-15T17:15:19Z

When I first got a microwaves I heated dinner rolls & they turned out to be hard like rock not rolls.

β™₯β™₯β™₯𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓖𝓸 𝓖𝓲𝓻𝓡 β™₯β™₯β™₯2012-11-15T17:00:11Z

This was long before I knew this, ut I would put tin foil wrap food in it..yeah it caught on fired alright!!
Other then that I will not cook/bake in the microwave..I just warm things up in it.

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