Somehow everywhere I live, I end up renting an apartment that doesn’t have room for a microwave (or I’m just too cheap to buy one).
I learned how to cook in the US and tons of American recipes tell you to just “pop [something] in the microwave.” At first I really missed it, but after a while without it, it’s not so hard to live without.
Here are my tips and tricks to get by without a microwave:
- You should buy a tiny pot and a tiny frying pan specifically for reheating.
- When I set up a new kitchen I always buy a HUGE pot for soups and a HUGE frying pan thinking that’s all I need, but eventually I get annoyed having to wash them by hand every single time I warm anything up.
- An electric kettle will make you hate your life a lot less, especially as an American who grew up without one.
- Store your leftovers in oven safe dishes instead of plastic if you can. Or even a tin baking dish with plastic wrap if you are too cheap for glass leftover dishes.
- When you need to melt butter for a baking project, stick it in a bowl and put it in the oven while it warms up. You’ll be way less likely to burn it than if you do it on the stove, you will only have to wash a bowl instead of a pot, and you will have free hands to prep other stuff rather than watching the butter.
Obviously none of this is rocket science, but you never know what might be helpful to someone else.
Finding Eden 