Who doesn’t like their food to be served piping hot? Anything served hot automatically enhances the taste and the aroma, doesn’t it? The food that your cook probably made in the noon, won’t taste like much for dinner if you don’t heat it up well. While to some, it doesn’t make much of a difference whether their food is hot or cold. Those people are exceptions! Keeping all that into consideration, a device called microwave oven was invented by Percy Spencer back in 1946. Ever since then, it has become the most essential and basic appliance for every household. But instead of just heating your food and boiling your eggs, did you know there’s a lot more you can do with a microwave to make life easier?
1. Why boil, when you can steam?
Steaming your veggies in the microwave will save a lot of time and labour. All you’ve got to do is wash your veggies, cut them, and put them in a microwave bowl. Now, add some water and cover the bowl with a thin plastic layer. Microwave for two to three minutes, and check if they need to be steamed more. Stir fry them next, sprinkle some salt and pepper, and your healthy bowl of veggies is ready.
2. Make rice
Do you prefer cooking rice in a pressure cooker, but hate that it requires monitoring? Well, enlist your microwave into service and make your life easier. Put the pre-soaked rice and water in a microwave-safe dish, and set the timer for 10 minutes. No, you don’t need to cover the dish with a lid. Trust us, your rice will taste as good as it does when you pressure cook it.
3. Baked potatoes, FTW!
Aloo lovers know how heavenly baked potatoes taste. No amount of baked potato is enough. Scrub the potato well, and prick it in order to let it cook well. Microwave it for a good five minutes. Once baked, sprinkle some salt and pepper on top, and add cheese. Et voila!
4. Melt your ice cream
Umm… yes, there are some people who love to relish their ice cream in a molten form, and there’s nothing wrong in that. Maybe, it tastes better. Do you wish to try it? If yes, then all you’ve got to do is just take the lid off, and microwave it for 20 seconds. Also, this trick is helpful for when your ice cream turns into ice if kept for long in the freezer. You may wish to microwave it for 10 seconds and then have it.
5. Extract more juice from citrus pulps
Did you know that you can make lemons and oranges more pulpy by microwaving it for 20 seconds? Well, you can. Heating them for a few seconds to make the juice flow out easily. This will cut down on the labour of squeezing it hard to extract every drop.
