"The_Fatman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:18:37 -0800, spamtrap1888 wrote:

On Jan 12, 11:39 am, The_Fatman wrote:
....just to follow up for those that may benefit,like someone
suggested, it was the relay that controls fan/light/rotarytable which
burned out. The only rub was my waiting an extra day to pursue it and
the woman carting the machine off to the repair center in the
interim....oh well, it's only money....maybe it will last 10 years
now???

The female time scale to get a piece of vital equipment going again is
much shorter than the male's. In a similar situation, my thought to use
a double boiler to reheat foods, and the oven to cook frozen meals, fell
on deaf ears.

....isn't that the truth.....it's like the survival of homo-sapiens is
now hopelessly intertwined with functioning magnetrons...i also dared to
suggest maybe we could...i dunno... use the oven and those lovely
stainless steel cookwares i sprung for a year ago. Instead i get a look
like i just rattled off some bizarre Russian dialect.

Good evening.

Our latest business involves the wife working during the evening, so it's
pretty much down to me to decide what to eat for an evening meal, and how to
prepare it. I've virtually abandoned the microwave, and gone back to simple
honest cooking in the oven and on the stovetop, using fresh ingredients.
It's cheaper than frozen meals, and tastes sooooo much better. For instance,
we had been using pretty much exclusively microwave rice packets. To be
honest, they might as well have contained bleached and de-flavoured mouse
turds. I have now gone back to boiling my own rice, bought for a fraction of
the cost of the packet stuff - I am actually using a local store's 'budget'
range. It takes but a few minutes to cook, and you can even smell it. I had
forgotten how good rice smells when it is cooked, and how much intrinsic
flavour it has, before you start adding any other ingredients to the mix. It
also fries better than the packet stuff, and doesn't stick to the pan.

Apart from heating up a can of soup, I think that I can now pretty much live
without using the thing at all, and am probably healthier for it.

Arfa