Microwave cooking is... a unique beast. It's a pretty interesting thought puzzle to try and cook things by rotating them through standing waves which basically boil the water in them from the inside out.
Which means at least in my experience that the old nukebox is amazing for steaming high water content foods like vegetables or rewarming things like leftover chinese depending on what it is. On the other hand it fails utterly at handling breads, pastas, and dryer meats for anything more than a handful of seconds just to warm them up even though it can thaw frozen bread (even pita) very nicely.
Outside of prepackaged microwaveables I've had the most luck with either steaming things in various containers or abusing the bowl-over-plate method with very short bursts to reheat something that's been in the fridge for a while (penne for example...)
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Originally Posted by Ayashe
I have another recipe for microwave cake around somewhere. The nice thing about making something like this is that you don't end up with a huge cake leftover and not enough people to eat it, too much temptation. Making only one serving eliminates that problem. Plus, it is kind of fun for kids if any are around.
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Somethingawful tried a bunch of microwave cake recipes once, the general consensus was that it's exactly the sort of thing you'd expect people to goad each other into eating on the internet.