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Not sure about the car idea. It's quite useful to have one. Alternative hints : - thumb rule "if you have had this stuff for 6 months but have not used it yet

by guylhem 14y ago

Not sure about the car idea. It's quite useful to have one. Alternative hints : - thumb rule "if you have had this stuff for 6 months but have not used it yet/removed it from its box and installed it/repaired it, then it's a waste of time and space - throw it/give it/sell it." - then try to remove "things" from your life to measure how you feel about not having them. You'll be surprised about how many things are not really making you more or less happy. Hint: the really important things are what you usually take with you when you travel, like a toothbrush - and by improving these things you use daily you can create a much better experience for yourself - when you move to a new place - only take 2 bags worth of stuff. Pareto law- the rest is certainly not that important to you - in this new place only buy stuff you need - and after needing it twice, without writing down a list. If you can't remember to buy it, you don't really need it. - experiment! Each person has "important things". What is applicable to me may not be to you. I mostly eat fresh food at home, and only cook with a microwave. I don't need any other "cooking paraphernalia". OTOH, the most important thing to me is shower gel - I buy a bottle with a different smell each week :-] For the author - if you want a tropical place with friendly people and great coffee shops, come to the FWI :-)

ZanderEarth32 14y ago
How are you preparing your fresh food solely with a microwave? Do you follow a raw diet? Or do you steam vegetables in a microwave? Interested to hear.
- guylhem 14y ago
  It's easy : - I eat all my vegetables raw: apple, lettuce, tomatoes, red pepper... The only "non fresh" vegetables I buy (for convenience - can't find it raw where I live) is frozen broccoli which is perfectly unfrozen in the microwave, not steamed. - besides vegetables, I mostly eat rice, eggs, fish and meat. Rice provides some glucids - and it cooks quite well in a microwave. Fish is also easy to cook in a microwave - I loved boiled salmon with pastas, olive oil and goat cheese, but now most of the time I prefer canned mackerels because they come with a variety of sauces so I don't have to prepare them. For meat, I've had decent result with frozen "cheap" (high fat) ground beef. I put it in a bowl- it releases grease when it's cooking in the microwave in a way that make it tasty to me (and the grease is left at the bottom of the bowl so it's easy to remove). It's not quite like boiled meat - closer to what a hamburger meat taste, and it's quick to prepare. I know it's a weird diet. In fact, I came to this diet not by any specific health concern but by time optimization. I like my meals to be quick and easy to prepare - if they need more than 6 minutes to prepare, I'm not interested. Cooking stuff takes time (heat transfer, etc), so most of the "cooking" was removed. I then made my diet healthier, tweaking here and there (a bag of pop corn is quick to prepare, but maybe not that healthy) following various ideas. This caused some interesting changes - like raw eggs. At the moment, I still keep the 6 minutes maximum limit every day, while eating was is generally considered healthy - basically it's a raw diet with varied vegetables each week, only with rice and meat being cooked. I add canned oily fish + frozen broccoli for the convenience, and I still do a bag of popcorn time to time.
  - rb2k_ 14y ago
    > I know it's a weird diet. Not at all, sounds pretty close to what could be considered Paleo/Keto (bsides the rice)
- ahoge 14y ago
  There are microwave/oven combos. Haven't seen one with hotplates on top yet. I have seen microwave-sized ovens with 2 hotplates on top though. I used one of those for a couple of years. Okay, after looking around at Amazon for a bit, there also are microwave/oven thingies with 2 hot plates on top (like the Steba KB 52). They are somewhat expensive though.
  - guylhem 14y ago
    had one of these dual things for a time - they are a pain to clean
    - ahoge 14y ago
      I didn't notice any difference when compared to regular small ovens. Well, I guess there is some accelerated crust build up if you let your microwaved food splatter around and then bake it in. If you repeat that cycle a few times, it will look really filthy. Fortunately, that problem is fairly easy to solve. Use a cover if you microwave stuff which might splatter around. Well, to be honest, you don't actually have to clear an oven regularly. That stuff has been burnt to a crisp ages ago. Heating it up won't produce any smoke or smell anymore. All of that was burnt away.
      - guylhem 14y ago
        :-) I lived with the burnt stuff for a while too, but decided that the next one would be a 100% microwave to avoid any cleaning issues

by guylhem 14y ago

ZanderEarth32 14y ago

How are you preparing your fresh food solely with a microwave? Do you follow a raw diet? Or do you steam vegetables in a microwave? Interested to hear.

guylhem 14y ago
It's easy : - I eat all my vegetables raw: apple, lettuce, tomatoes, red pepper... The only "non fresh" vegetables I buy (for convenience - can't find it raw where I live) is frozen broccoli which is perfectly unfrozen in the microwave, not steamed. - besides vegetables, I mostly eat rice, eggs, fish and meat. Rice provides some glucids - and it cooks quite well in a microwave. Fish is also easy to cook in a microwave - I loved boiled salmon with pastas, olive oil and goat cheese, but now most of the time I prefer canned mackerels because they come with a variety of sauces so I don't have to prepare them. For meat, I've had decent result with frozen "cheap" (high fat) ground beef. I put it in a bowl- it releases grease when it's cooking in the microwave in a way that make it tasty to me (and the grease is left at the bottom of the bowl so it's easy to remove). It's not quite like boiled meat - closer to what a hamburger meat taste, and it's quick to prepare. I know it's a weird diet. In fact, I came to this diet not by any specific health concern but by time optimization. I like my meals to be quick and easy to prepare - if they need more than 6 minutes to prepare, I'm not interested. Cooking stuff takes time (heat transfer, etc), so most of the "cooking" was removed. I then made my diet healthier, tweaking here and there (a bag of pop corn is quick to prepare, but maybe not that healthy) following various ideas. This caused some interesting changes - like raw eggs. At the moment, I still keep the 6 minutes maximum limit every day, while eating was is generally considered healthy - basically it's a raw diet with varied vegetables each week, only with rice and meat being cooked. I add canned oily fish + frozen broccoli for the convenience, and I still do a bag of popcorn time to time.
- rb2k_ 14y ago
  > I know it's a weird diet. Not at all, sounds pretty close to what could be considered Paleo/Keto (bsides the rice)
ahoge 14y ago
There are microwave/oven combos. Haven't seen one with hotplates on top yet. I have seen microwave-sized ovens with 2 hotplates on top though. I used one of those for a couple of years. Okay, after looking around at Amazon for a bit, there also are microwave/oven thingies with 2 hot plates on top (like the Steba KB 52). They are somewhat expensive though.
- guylhem 14y ago
  had one of these dual things for a time - they are a pain to clean
  - ahoge 14y ago
    I didn't notice any difference when compared to regular small ovens. Well, I guess there is some accelerated crust build up if you let your microwaved food splatter around and then bake it in. If you repeat that cycle a few times, it will look really filthy. Fortunately, that problem is fairly easy to solve. Use a cover if you microwave stuff which might splatter around. Well, to be honest, you don't actually have to clear an oven regularly. That stuff has been burnt to a crisp ages ago. Heating it up won't produce any smoke or smell anymore. All of that was burnt away.
    - guylhem 14y ago
      :-) I lived with the burnt stuff for a while too, but decided that the next one would be a 100% microwave to avoid any cleaning issues