Sam Nelson wrote:

Cooking frozen green vegetables and Christmas puddings (on both of which
they do a far better job than panfuls of water on a hob) and part-cooking

Long ago when microwave ovens were a new fangled thing my mother put the
christmas pud in one. There wee no instuctions about how long to cook it
for so she reckoned the limit of the timer (about an hour) might be
about right -- there wasn't anything left to flambe in brandy after a
few minutes.

I had a new magnetron installed in ours for what seemed like an economic sum
at the time, a good few years ago. It gives the impression of starting to
die off again. I've looked at replacements, but it always strikes me that
the user interfaces must be designed by autistic chimpanzees.

I have that problem when I consider what will happpen when my Philips
'Space Cube 40' expires. (still going strong after 20 years) Two buttons
to set the time up and down, two buttons to do the same for power level
and a start button. Why do all the new ones need a button for every item
in the larder and a weight calculator?

--
David Clark

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