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Microwave Cooking-The Ultimate Solution For Busy Lifestyles

Microwave cooking stands for fast and quick cooking, not due to any shortcuts but because the intensity of heat created makes food get cooked very fast. Modern lifestyles involve tough and hectic work schedules with both husband and wife working, and there is little time to cook the evening meal after an exhausting day at work. It is for such people that the microwave oven is the biggest asset. It can turn out a snack in a couple of minutes and a meal in ten minutes. This is facilitated by the availability of ready to eat meals that just need to be placed in the microwave ovens, micro-cooking pots that are specially suited for certain meat preparations, microwave rice cookers that steam the rice without making them soggy, and hundreds of recipe books that give detailed instructions on microwave cooking with time tested and perfected steps.

What all can the microwave oven do in just a few minutes:

• Steam and sauté vegetables
• Boil pasta
• Steam rice
• Cook chicken and meats
• Steam fish and shelled seafood
• Bake
• Heat a plate of ready food or leftovers in a minute
• Make instant coffee in 1 minute

Microwave ovens provide food for everyone in the family. On a typical working day, here is how the microwave oven is used for each member of the family.

1. Early in the morning both husband and wife have a cup of instant coffee before getting started for the day. Time taken for 2 cups-2 minutes
2. Children ready to go to school, get a cup of milk each, heated in 1 minute and a muffin heated in 30 seconds.
3. At lunch time children find a plate of cooked rice and chicken that gets heated in one minute. For dessert they have chocolate cake with hot chocolate sauce-time taken 45 seconds.
4. Teatime snack of popcorn and cookies takes 4 minutes exactly, as the children go out to play.
5. As the couple return home, they have picked up some garlic bread that takes a minute to heat and they prepare a casserole of chicken and vegetables-all that they do is put vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, onions, garlic and chicken pieces, add one cup of water and keep it in the microwave oven for 9 minutes. The casserole and garlic bread together take ten minutes to reach the table.
6. For dessert, peaches and apples are sliced and sprinkled with sugar and stewed in the microwave for 4 minutes and they are ready.

Visualize the ease with which the food requirements of the whole family of four is met with minimal dishes to wash and hardly any time spent standing in front of the oven waiting for the casserole to cook. Thus weekdays pass with ease thanks to the microwave, and elaborate grilled meats and pies are left for the weekends when there is more time at hand. Microwave ovens have facilitated fast cooking and minimized kitchen time for the busy cook of the house especially those who have fulltime jobs as well. Such cooks thank the microwave oven everyday of their lives.