Topic: Microwaves

The Way We Cooked: Microwave Recipes for One

Every time I go to this thrift store near where I grew up, there’s one section that boggles my mind: The microwave cookbook section. Microwave cookbooks! The store’s book area is packed with ‘em (some published as recently as 1990!). I walk on by the stacks of cheaply-produced “vintage” books and marvel about what kind of recipes must be inside—for those of us that grew up microwaving pizza rolls, Velveeta cheese and Lean Cuisines (not all together; my diet growing up was gross, but not that gross), the idea that some happy homemaker of yore needed to be taught how to use a microwave seems absurd. More »

Breast Implants Suck and Travelers Hate Kids: Morning News Roundup

Women Are Better Than Men: They eat more vegetables, and live longer. (Daily Intel)

Could Microwaved Food Kill You? Well, it might not kill you, but it might not be good for you, either. (Huffington Post)

Breast Implants Are (Still) A Bad Idea: And there are 6 regretful stars to prove it. (The Frisky)

Poll Shows Travelers Hate Kids: Intolerant Americans want to stick families in the back of the plane. (Broadsheet)

Where Should You Buy Your Shrimp? Between Gulf and imported shrimp, imported might be the worse of two evils. (AOL) More »

Microwaving and Health: Videos That Crack Us Up

We always wondered about the health risks of microwaves. Saturday Night LIve’s Timecrowave infomercial answers our questions (and it contains minutes of Alec Baldwin in an orange cable knit sweater that we can’t resist):

Testing Microwave Ovens

I told my 8 yr old son a couple of days ago that we didn’t have a microwave when I was his age – he assumed that meant that we didn’t have popcorn OR leftovers “way back when” either. … More »