for the arrival of the New Forest Microwave. I hope you will be v. happy together!
They do overcook things very easily. Especially if only doing half quantities.
MWs are very, very good for heating up any steamed puddings (like Xmas puddings) but be careful with timings and check after a short while or things go brick-hard and never recover.
I have managed to explode a baked potato (the insides go ok-ish but the skins are soggy) and baked beans in a microwave.
And remember the deadly microwave-volcano effect, as demonstrated by Esther Rantzen herself on That's life in the 70s! If you put a teaspoon in an innocent looking cup of liquid you heated in the MW, the liquid may froth up in a violent volcano effect and scald anything in its turbulent eruption out of the mug.
You have to love microwaves though. What they do they do very well and fast. I'm glad you got yours, Furby.
Do beware of the dangers though. I've had the volcano effect lots of times because I'm impatient and won't give it a few seconds after it finishes.
I've had something pop and splatter the inside too. That's just messy and annoying, but you don't want it doing it just as you open the door.
I made baked potato and beans already and the skins were soggy but at least I didn't explode it so I suppose I did well really.
I have heated up previously made chilli and it did that nicely.
I made apple crumble and it has turned out like porridge but it tastes ok.
I am now warned about the teaspoon but I am also curious to try it out now. I didn't pay attention to Ester as we didn't have a microwave.
Furbs, if you are in a hurry for baked potatoes, the nice thing to do is get them most of the way done in your microwave, and then finish them off in the convection oven to crisp the outsides a bit. Much faster that way, the innards are done and moist, and the outsides aren't soggy.
That is a good tip from Asy
Heating up anything like casseroles/curries it is really good at.
I would not be without mine, it has become an essential tool, but it does have limitations. I think of it more as a heating tool than a cooking tool IYKWIM