What was the first thing you ever cooked in a microwave?

[The Straight Story]

For me it was a hot dog, way back in the day.

[reyd reid reed]

1. Hot dog here, too...

followed by a cupcake. Way back in the 70s.

[Swede]

2. Something called a chuckwagon sandwich.

The original nuke 'n puke.

[sakabatou]

3. Popcorn

[KitchenWitch]

4. I think I reheated meat loaf

[flvegan]

5. Gremlin.

Miserable little fucker.

[The Straight Story]

7. I was wondering where my pet gremlin went

did he taste good?

[flvegan]

17. I'm vegan, homeboy.

I cooked him cuz I had ta.

[BarenakedLady]

6. No idea

I remember my mother being very resistant to the whole microwave idea. She thought they were dangerous. I remember it being rather large when we finally got one (like a mini fridge size).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. water

That's what the directions told us to do.

[The Straight Story]

12. did it taste good?

;)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. After I added a tea bag, it did.

:D

[mcctatas]

9. scrambled eggs in a cool whip container...

needless to say, we ended up at IHOP instead...

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Frozen doughnut. Back in the old Amana Radarrange days.

[Connonym]

18. Kids today would laugh if they saw the size microwaves used to be

I remember my aunt got an Amana and my mom was sooooo jealous. Although I can't imagine not having one they certainly haven't lived up to the hype from when they originally came out. Does anyone actually do much cooking in them? The only things I actually cook are popcorn and veggies. 99% of the time I just use it to reheat.

[The Straight Story]

30. That would be a good thread in and of itself: What do you cook in your microwave

:)

[leftofthedial]

11. the cat

oops.

[Generic Brad]

13. A cup of water

My dad was so paranoid that we would accidentally blow something up or get radiation burns. We always had to have a cup of water in the microwave so there would be something there in case we accidentally turned it on. You would have thought we had bought a particle collider!

But it did make that water boil after about three minutes on the dial.

[Pierre.Suave]

27. Did you accidentally buy the

original prototype Mini Hadron Collider?

:P

[Generic Brad]

38. No. It was a 500 watt Panasonic

I swear I could have baked a potato in the oven faster than in that thing.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Bacon?

But I also remember the first microwave oven that I saw. One of my Dad's co-workers built his own in the early 60's.

[lady raven]

16. For me it was a pizza, in the communal dorm microwave

God, I HATE microwave pizza.

[grannylib]

19. Actually cooked? Probably baked spuds. At first, as kids, mostly heated shit up

just for the novelty of it all...Twinkies, cookies, fruit, you name it, we'd try it, just to see what happened.

[patomime]

20. ...an egg....

and blew it up, because I didn't know any better!

[Roon]

21. A piece of cheese on a slice of bread

nasty, I know. Still nasty today!

[Nikia]

22. I don't remember

My grandparents bought the Amana microwave shortly after it first came out so I was around microwaves my entire life. My mother bought one when I was in first grade and I was using it fairly quickly on a regular basis. I can't remember if I first cooked things in that microwave or before that in my grandparents' microwave.

[MrsMatt]

23. My dad got one for my mom for Christmas

and my dad was the first to use it - he warmed up milk for the farm cats outside the house.

[harmonicon]

24. bread - slices of bread

I was trying to make toast. We had just gotten a microwave, and I was about 3 or 4. I wasn't allowed to use the toaster, but with my briliant childhood logic, I figured that I could just use the microwave. I was disappointed. As I remember, I then ate my "toast" in the hall closet (so no one would know that I used the microwave? I can't remember). I was a strange kid.

[Shiver]

25. Play-Doh attached to a GI Joe

Long story.

[jobycom]

26. An egg. The whole family gathered around, and watched in wonder and awe

That microwave was the first and one of the very few things I remember my father splurging on and buying when it was still new and unknown.

I still have that microwave! It's in my ex-wife's garage. We haven't used it in ten years, but the last time we tried, it still worked. Damn thing's as loud as a tornado and probably more radioactive than John Wayne's colon.

[applegrove]

28. Me too I think it was a hotdog. Read somewhere you could cook a hotdog in its bun

if you wrapped a paper towel around it..so I did. Worked. Was delicious.

[The Straight Story]

29. Wow, have not tried it with the bun

Gives me a project for later!

[applegrove]

33. Take a frozen hot dog, & a frozen bun. Wrap paper towel around them.

Heat. Then eat.

[supernova]

31. I brownie recipe, IIRC

I liked it because it was really a molten chocolate cake. :9

I haven't made that recipe in eons, though.

[The Straight Story]

32. well make it again, should only take a minute or two to zap it

and send me your address so I can come have some cake with ya!

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Probably a baked potato. I don't cook shit in microwaves, because they suck shit.

I use the microwave to warm stuff up.

But they do make a nice baked potato.

[PfcHammer]

35. Prolly a tortilla or

hot chocolate

[panhead1961]

36. Aluminum Foil

[bigwillq]

40. !

!

[realisticphish]

37. no idea

because I'm not old :D

[Wapsie B]

39. I think it was either popcorn or a hotdog.

What got me was so many people thinking they needed to put a cup of water inside the microwave when it wasn't in use. :shrug: