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I highly recommend getting one with an inverter. When you ask for 50% power on a traditional microwave, it runs full blast half the time and off half the time. With an inverter microwave, it gives you 50% power all the time. It makes the microwave much more capable of doing things like defrosting, or softening butter. Any time you need less than full blast it works HUGELY better.
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dualstow wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:56 pm Aren’t cast iron pans amazing? 🍳
I feel like I spend too much time re-oiling them but I really love the way they cook, both on the stovetop and in the oven.
Agreed. We pretty much daily use a small skillet or a medium skillet that were my mother’s and grandmother’s. We also frequently use a Dutch oven that was given to us by a friend when her mother died. All are probably 75 to 100 years old and are still in excellent condition.
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dualstow wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 10:28 am What do you cook with, Vin?
I like stainless steel, too.
I got rid of my Calphalon after destroying it.
My electric stove has been unplugged for 10 years.

Any "cooking" I do is in the microwave.

But I cannot think of the last day I made hot foot.

I spend as little time as possible in the kitchen. Rather be at these keyboards!
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Smith1776 wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 2:56 pm I cook with my microwave. ;D
So I am not the ONLY one here who does so!
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dualstow wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 3:16 pm
Smith1776 wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 2:56 pm I cook with my microwave. ;D
It actually does a decent job with potatoes and with broccoli. Or are you just heating up Taco Bell O0
Ours is getting senile though. And it’s a built-in. Not looking forward to replacing it.
I bought a brand new built-in used. However, it sits on top of my refrigerator.
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