The Case of the Missing Appliance
January 4, 2010
If you walked into my kitchen, there are a few things you would notice immediately. It is small, the floor needs mopped (desperately, but do I really want to mop when there are 8 inches of snow outside? Seems futile.), my oven is much more humble looking than my fridge, and the microwave is missing. That is right, I don’t own a microwave. Well, I actually do, but it has recently been demoted to the basement and is never really used except when my husband has a hankering for microwaved popcorn (I won’t even go into how bad that is for you…JERE). I removed the microwave for many reasons. Just do the research online….it is overwhelming. I will post a link or two at the bottom of this entry. Besides the research, I have my own personal reasons for letting it go.
I rarely use it unless I am reheating leftovers or melting butter for a recipe. Leftovers taste bad out of the microwave and I can melt butter on the stove. I have decided I will now reheat leftovers in the oven. They will taste better and every nutritional element in the meal will not be destroyed.
It takes up WAY too much countertop space for my kitchen. The use to countertop space ratio is about 1:10, so it is not worth it to me. I would rather have that space available for other appliances that don’t provide my family with unhealthy and potentially dangerous food.
Here are a few links:
Are microwave ovens bad for you?
Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking
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January 4th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
I wanted to do this for a long, long time! I wonder if I can get away with it without Tony going crazy! I’ve stopped using microwave popcorn and we pop it on the stove instead.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:37 am
too funny! we haven’t used a Micro wave for years now and when we moved last year into a rental home it took a guest in our home to ask “where is your micro wave?” The hubby and I both got up and went in the kitchen to look…we laughed and my husband said “oh yeah I guess we don’t have one” we never even realized there wasn’t one since we never used the one we did have before. You did your family a huge service