I cook in freezer bags only when hiking. Just pour in the boiling water and wait seven minutes (assuming noodles and not Knorr sides). I do use the nuker a lot, but I use a bowl with stretch wrap or a wet paper towel over it.
We also heat food in the air fryer. It doesn't change the texture of the meat like the nuker does.
I remember my mom getting a microwave not long after they first came out. She starting using it for meals but nobody liked how things tasted and especially the texture or 'mouth feel'. Buns turn into rubber in those things. After a bit she would only use it to heat water or maybe some leftovers.
I read years ago bout how they break down compounds in your food especially amino acids which are the building blocks your body used to make proteins to keep your muscles strong.
In the old folks homes and hospitals here everything is mass produced at a big factory kitchen then flash frozen and shipped to the various facilities then nuked and served up. These are sick people who need decent nutrition but are fed slop. I was in the hospital for about 10 days for a ruptured appendix a few years back and I wouldn't eat most of what they served up. Margarine on white bread toast, juice cups that were no better than kool-ade loaded with food colourings, artificial flavours and high fructose corn syrup ffs. Luckily I couldn't eat much due to the intravenous antibiotics giving me the shits so bad I had to wear a diaper and could barely get back to bed without having to run back to the shitter. No sleep for a week until I had a psychotic episode and freaked out on the staff.
Stretch wrap in the nuker is a no-no. Lots of those plasticizers in that stuff to make stretchy. That new car smell these days is a lot different than back in the day and is all plasticizers you get to inhale. Buy used.
I got the wife one of those little ovens with the swing open doors for Xmas a few years ago and she loves it. Real heat and half the power needed as the oven in the stove. I don't mind waiting to heat up a snack in it.
As soon as we make a pot of coffee in the BUNN it goes into my Tim Horton SS thermos so we can shut off the warmer plate that uses 84W to keep the pot hot. That last cup of coffee in the pot 5 hours later always tastes like shit but from the thermos tastes fresh. I might give it 30 sec in the nuker before I add milk and sugar but have a cup warmer on my desk that uses 13W and a lid for the cup and it can make the coffee almost too hot to drink. Great for evaping off the last of the ISO from a small oil batch too.
Almost everything we eat is made from scratch at home. When we have to go to the city every 3 or 4 months we order chinese at a friends and pig out on lemon chicken, prawn veggie mix and the usual. Never a fast food joint. There's 3 eateries in the small town near us and we never eat there as they are all crap. At one they gave me a pre-made then nuked burger that was still frozen in the middle of the pattie. The chinese food place pours a little sweet and sour over dried out fatty pork chunks that are like eating rocks and the hotel food is to die for, literally.
At least the place in another town 20 min away makes a great donair, a really decent burger with real fries and a fair pizza so that's something and if we have to go there for something else we occasionally grab some stuff to take home. No deliveries of any kind here so not tempted to order in. No mail or UPS etc either but a friend in a town nearby lets me have stuff sent to her place if they won't ship to a PO box. Our PO box is in the post office and not one of those community ones down the road or something.
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