Comments on: Life without a microwave

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:53:07 +0000

I use a toaster oven instead of conventional oven to avoid too much heat/power when reheating small things. Otherwise, the stovetop works fine.

By: Ninette

Ninette — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:37:00 +0000

I have no issues with most of the reasons to do away with microwaves. The one issue I do have is that of how much additional power and therefore money is required to heat and run a conventional oven to heat or reheat food. Plus, if you need to heat and use an oven in the summer, it heats up your kitchen and house even more. All of this seems environmentally detrimental. The microwave seems a perfect answer for this facet… it doesn’t heat up the house and does its job in a fraction of the time of a stovetop or conventional oven, therefore using less power/money.

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:33 +0000

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By: Marsha M

Marsha M — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:06:02 +0000

I’m so jealous! I did not want a microwave but my husband’s grandmother got us one anyway. Now I find myself using it occasionally meanwhile hating the loss of space…someday it will disappear but not while we live next door to the grandmother!

By: Amy H

Amy H — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:58:17 +0000

I am very pleased to see this column. As someone who has never owned a microwave, except for the time my father brought one home as a gift for my mother, and I went kicking and screaming to my room in protest. This was around the same time that I moved out of my house to live in a tent while my mother insisted on installing carpet in my bedroom. Blame it on the environmental movement of my generation, but I’ve never had a need for a microwave or a television, answering machine or car telephone for that matter. It drives my friends crazy, but my reasons go beyond the quality of my food, radiation exposure or the expense. I worry about the availability of these low quality products and how they tend to be disposable and ultimately end up in our landfills just as soon as a new, smaller or more efficient model is released. As my mother now says: “If it’s convenient, it’s probably not good for you.”
Thanks for your website! ~ Amy H. Newport, RI

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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:16:53 +0000

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The Wallet : Loose Change: 9/19/08 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:35:39 +0000

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