Is it feasible to live with only a microwave?

[steppen22]

The oven's blown. I haven't got the time to try to fix it and money is going to be tight in the next few months. I'm not going to pay to have it fixed as it will cost nearly as much as a new one, so not worth it.

How feasible is it to survive with a dual grill/microwave?

I'm no foodie, but I can't live on just chips, etc.

What can I /can't I do with a microwave~?
What's the most ambitious thing you've nuked?

(edit: please move. Wrong forum, obviously)
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[steppen22]

I should point out, I have placed a quota of three amusing replies only for this thread. After that, sensible replies only, please.
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[mr jamez]

You can make boiled eggs in a kettle
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get a camping-gaz stove, cheap and can fry/boil whatever you want.
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[kawakid]

Get a george foreman grill from wilkinsons as well they cost about £14. Excellent for grilling stuff and making ace cheese toasties.

When you said your oven went, is your hob seperate?

If not, you can buy twin element hobs from argos for about 20 notes.

When we had our new kitchen fitted last year, we survived no problems with a george foreman, a microwave, a veg steamer and a deep fat fryer.
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[ms51ves3]

The microwave is like the plug in mum, when she's not there to cook for you, the microwave is

It's pretty easy to live off just a microwave. I generally live off soup, toast, pot noodles and microwaveable burgers if my mum isn't cooking for me.

[hellkat]

And strangely ... my mum nowadays does all sorts of things in hers. I never cease to be amazed: she taught me to cook food in a proper oven/cooker, doubtless so that I could be the one slaving over these things, and then I get back home only to find her nuking all sorts of things! She even gave Anita a recipe of how to make cheese sauce by microwave and yet when I was a kid, I had to learn to make it properly (roux, milk, stir so no lumps, blah blah).

Until recently I was quite incompetent in microwaveage apart from "baked" potatoes.

Although obviously it would be TOO easy (albeit somewhat expensive) to buy microwaveable ready meals, you can do stuff like nuke fresh vegetables, if you chop them up correctly and put them in those microwave bag things.

Bit of a pain keeping things hot, although with a bit of forward planning, you can use the dual grill thing to keep things warm while you nuke other stuff.

Or you can just eat loads of "baked" potatoes
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[Seb]

Definitely doable, although if your lazy you'll potentially find yourself living of ready meals which will rapidly cost you more than preparing stuff properly yourself with an el-cheapo portable hob or camping stove.
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[stinkwheel]

There is almost nothing you can't cook in one of those microwave/grill combos.

The main problem is you can only do one thing at a time and some stuff turns out a bit odd.

It is difficult to do a good steak in one and you'd struggle with toast. I think yorkshire puddings would be a challenge.

I have made all sorts of things including cakes!

Suet puddings work particularly well, come out light and fluffy. They go like concrete after a few hours though.
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[hellkat]

Or ... Learn to love salad.

/wisecrack

Seriously, salad's not just for girls and rabbits, and its not just about lettuce.

Raw vegetables are actually quite nice, they sometimes even have taste.

Read up a few "foreign" cookbooks, like Italian, Spanish, maybe some middle eastern ones, and see what you can make that requires non-cooking but which you can eat, whatever the season.

The English do tend to get too used to eating only stodge all throughout winter. Salad/raw food can and should be your friend, interspersed sensibly between cooked food.
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[theopj]

You could buy a cheap steamer - can cook meat/fish and veggies in there - taste better as well. Can also do rice in them.
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[theopj]

You could buy a cheap steamer - can cook meat/fish and veggies in there - taste better as well. Can also do rice in them.
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[NiteMare]

scrambled egg, beans, sketti, soups, boiled milk (for my coffee),...

most things will nuke, grab yourself a microwave cookbook, just be prepared for some stuff to be a funny colour compared to cooking conventionally ....

beans,peas, spuds and eggs can explode in the microwave so either cover them or prick them (they can make a right mess)...

i finally got fed up of sketti or beans on toast if i didn't go to the chip shop so i've bought a deep fat fryer and one of these stackable steamers (not used the steamer yet), tempted to get a G. Foreman grill to stop me using the hob and frying pan
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[NiteMare]

the only thing i use a cool frying pan for is eggs, i hate having the edges all frazzled ...

the oils/fats in my pan generally accumulate/increase thru cooking, i like to fry my mushrooms in a smoked bacon fat for the flavouring
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[Ichy]

All down to personal taste. I microwave 'fried' eggs. You can make any shape you want according tio the shape of the thing you cook them in. Look and taste like the maccieD ones. Break a couple of eggs in a bowl, some chopped up peppers and onions, plus any other stuff you have lying around and there's your plastic omlette. Being damn lazy means I try all sorts of stuff. I find that you can get really good mushrooms with your bacon by putting them underneath said bacon. They sort of fry in the fat that is nuked out.

Rice in a bowl with some water and covered with cling film comes out real fluffy. Same tactic for veg, bowl, cup of water and cling film, steams up nicely.

Some Iceland veg in a used takeaway plastic box takes just a couple of minutes with no effort at all, you can even stack them.

If I was single I could easily cope with just a toaster, grill and microwave. Feck me, when I was a kid I lived off a sandwich toaster!
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[motobiker]

These are excellent as a hob... I could live without a cooker if I had one of these and a microwave. Think life would be too dull with JUST a microwave though.

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TABLE-TOP-INDUCTION-HOB-BY-ALASKA-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ260336917602

btw - Lidl had them last week for £25.
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[stinkwheel]

Those induction hobs are too wierd.

How the hell can it make the stuff in the pan hot without getting hot itself?

A microwave, fair enough. It's like a box of mysteries and does odd things to your food behind a not-quite transparent screen. But putting a pan on something that isn't hot and the contents getting hot!
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[The Disapproving Brit]

Existing on microwave food is certainly doable, although I'd hesitate to go as far as to call it cooking. +1 for the George Foreman though. I have the dual one with flat and ridged surfaces, the flat bit does cracking eggs, cheese on toast and oatcakes (staffordshire, not scottish)
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[Villers]

We have a guy called dave, or to us he's called 'crazy dave'. Lived in the army for god knows how long and now at 60 ish years old he's had some hard tiomes adapting. He has no TV or fireplace, he has no oven either. One of the few weapons in his arsenal is his microwave, he's lived off it for years and he's still one of the fittest men I know.

I bet theres loads of websites dedicated to the culinary prowess of the microwave, what an adventure.

On subject of dave, there are many stories. If you would like to hear any of these gems including 'plantpot to the face' and 'more reverse gears than a sherman tank' just say!!
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[G]

Lived a long time as a kid with pretty much just a microwave.
If you've got a fancy one, add a double-electric hob and you've got a whole cooker sorted anyway... can get them from about £20 new.