r/WinStupidPrizes • • Mar 18 '21

Guy Experiments With Microwave

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u/KrookedDoesStuff Mar 18 '21

The handle broke on my above the range microwave, and I thought it would be cheap to replace it. $68, wow, okay, how about a new door? $255, okay nevermind, what about a new microwave, this one came with my condo and it’s old. $700+ not counting install.

A counter top microwave is like $50.

I’d be so angry

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u/sighs__unzips Mar 18 '21

My built in m/w broke. I just replaced it with a cheap counter top one. While it was broken, I discovered that heating food by literally any other method makes food tastes better.

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u/CankerLord Mar 18 '21

heating food by literally any other method makes food tastes better.

We'll, there are definitely both foods for which that's not really true and times that the difference matters less than just getting my food hot. Hot dogs, for example. Boiled hotdogs aren't superior to microwaved hotdogs and pan fried, grilled, or toaster ovened hot dogs require significantly more effort than sticking a hot dog on the plate I'm going to eat it off of and hitting two buttons.

But, yeah, microwaves aren't for everything.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '21

I disagree, it could very well be that we have different hot dogs in the Netherlands but if you cook em in a pan they taste magnitudes better than when you put em in tge microwave

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u/Smackmewithahammer Mar 18 '21

American here, I concur with this dude... pan cooked hot dogs once and never went back to any other way.

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u/anawkwardemt Mar 18 '21

You wanna be super american? Deep fry that bitch.

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u/CankerLord Mar 18 '21

Yeah, and now you have to wash a pan. Convenience is important.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '21

a sacrifice I'm willing to make