Getting better stuff when you microwave

How to enjoy a microwave oven... 

Wirecutter: 7 Things Our Microwave Expert Does to Instantly Improve the Performance of Any Microwave, 2024-Nov-18 by Rachel Wharton

I have to admit that most of what I learned came not so much from my hands-on testing, but from learning how microwaves work. Like many people, I had thought microwaves cook from the inside out, by heating up the water in foods. That’s not true. ...

The second thing I learned is that despite engineering tricks designed to move microwaves around the interior of these machines (and a spinning carousel), all microwaves struggle to heat foods evenly.

Summary:

1. Cut food into even pieces
2. Spread food out
3. Use a cover (including just paper or paper towels which are NOT recycled--recycled paper can include metallic threads)
4. Separate different food items
5. Higher power is faster but seldom better, although heating homogenous liquids and cooking pasta FAST is okay
6. Stir, flip, or move your food
7. Let it rest for about a minute

Progress is not glamorous

Works in Progress: The World of Tomorrow, 24-Dec-5 by Virginia Postrel

For progress to be appealing, it must offer room for diverse pursuits and identities, permitting communities with different commitments and values to enjoy a landscape of pluralism without devolving into mutually hostile tribes. The ideal of the one best way passed long ago. It was glamorous in its day but glamour is an illusion.