Things rough in your life right now? Maybe you need a miracle?
Well, if the miracle you need could be of the microwave-based variety (unlikely), Multi-Power Microwave Miracles from Sanyo (1979) is here to help!
Yes, it has the miracle of taking slightly less time to heat up appetizers than the broiler would have.
And it comes with the additional "miracle" of possibly having the microwaved crackers or toast rounds come out slightly soggy/rubbery instead of extra-crispy like the broiler would have made them! Bonus: The house will smell like microwaved crab for your guests!
And if you can't get enough microwaved seafood, well, how about the miracle of microwaved lobster tails?
Skip the butter option and serve them up with some lemon-margarine sauce for a real treat.
If you want a real miracle, maybe try stuffing an entire leg of lamb into the microwave?
And then try to explain why microwave cooking was obviously the best option. (Convincing anyone of this would probably constitute at least a minor miracle.)
Or maybe enjoy the miracle of having to toast, stack, and individually microwave Reuben Sandwiches one at a time...
...when it would have been fewer steps to just build them and then toast them all at once on a griddle that would make everything crispy?
"Trust me! I'm a marvel of microwave cooking! And if I'm not, you can drown me in a vat of Thousand Island."
Fine. I'll try to be nice (a miracle in itself!) and end with something pretty.
Oh, my! It's Party-Pretty Pudding!
And I won't even grumble about how much easier it would be just to use instant pudding instead of microwaving and cooling the cook-and-serve kind if all you're going to do anyway is layer vanilla pudding from a mix with some strawberries. It's a miracle indeed!
I really don't want to know what the inside of the microwave will look like after cooking a leg of lamb uncovered until done. Granted, it probably wouldn't be as bad as some office microwaves I've seen unless you leave it all gooey and nasty inside and set it outside for a week in 100 degree heat. At that point you might as well ruin some expensive seafood to add to the distinctive bouquet of an appliance that you wouldn't be able to give away even though it was extremely expensive for that time period.
ReplyDeleteAs for your idea of using instant pudding, I suppose some bored housewives really liked the challenge of not only cooking the pudding but skinning it before serving it with their strawberries. They could pretend that dessert really put up a fight before they got it assembled.
That's one "distinctive bouquet" I'm glad to have missed.
DeleteYes! Back in the '70s they had to pretend that a microwave could do ANYTHING because I guess that helped justify the expense. It's a good thing we've finally accepted that microwaves are good for just a very small range of activities.
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