Why does the microwave go up to 35 minutes. Has anyone ever microwaved something for half an hour?

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1. Yes

2. Thermal socks take ages to dry

3. Best way to thaw things

   Super low power and long cooking time

4. Never had the joy of defrosting a whole chicken huh

5. I once had a frozen joint of meat in the microwave for 2 hours. I think we had Christmas lunch about 3 hours late.

6. Fusing glass in a kiln

7. Flatmate at uni once microwaved a potato for 20 minutes and had the whole block standing outside in the cold at 1am when the fire alarm went off

8. Oh yes. Defrosted two scones on full power for 30 minutes. He’s not allowed in the kitchen when we’re out of the house any longer.
   Still waiting for the replacement microwave.

9. I got this mad micro lasagne once that had to be microwaved for half an hour.

   After that I learned how to just make lasagne.

   Now I can make a pretty great lasagne. That microwave one was fucking horrible.

10. It’s necessary if you put 7 microwave meals in at once.

11. Ginsters frozen pasty takes about an hour when you are so pissed you think said pasty is worth eating

12. Beetroot

13. Usually the bastard who gets to the microwave just before me in the staff canteen.

14. I can do my socks, soups and a Muller rice without adjusting the dial

15. Yup, i put a pizza in what I thought was the 180c oven setting for half an hour, and went to take a bath. Turns out it was the full power microwave setting.

    The pizza was a shiny black disk, about a third its original size, it weighed nothing and broke apart in your hands. The house smelt ungodly, for days.

16. Tried to make toast in the microwave when I was young. The plate it was on went black and cracked in half.

17. For defrosting

18. With a 700w microwave, probably.

19. I once had to defrost a porcine heart-lung block in a microwave, that took about an hour.

20. Did you know that you don’t have to cook everything at full power?

21. When I was a kid in the 80s, mum didn’t come home from work till gone 6 or 7 and dad was on nights. I would have been about seven years old. Got hungry. We had some findus crispy pancakes in the freezer. We’d not long had the microwave. I didn’t really know it was different to the oven or what the fuck I was doing anyway. So I whacked the crispy pancakes in the microwave for however long they should have gone in the oven for. It nuked the shit out of them, they came out like charcoal, super heated the plate I’d put them on which cracked, and got me in loads of strife with the old dear.

22. A chicken. It was delicious. Granted, it was microwaved in a special Pampered Chef pot. Damn this was expensive, but would allow you to cook a chicken, complete with a nice crisp skin, in the micro.

    https://www.pamperedchef.com/recipe/Main+Dishes/Deep+Covered+Baker/Thirty-Minute+Chicken/75018

23. If you want to get the best results for reheating food in the microwave then you’re supposed to use it on a low setting for 30 minutes. But no one does that because you might as well just use the oven at that point 🤷‍♂️

24. A cat once.