Cuisson dans la micro-onde avec le mello

Alright class, Lets start off today with a little history lesson!
Back in the ancient times of the early 1980's around year 3BS(BS: Before Sean) My parents in their infinite wisdom decided to purchase a simple cookbook for a revolutionary technology called a counter top microwave oven. Yes, my parents are perpetually 20 years behind current technology as my father thought face booking was something bullies did to freshmen in high school....anyway back to the point!

Cooking in the microwave with mello - According to facts and diagrams examined in this sacred text from 1982...


This is the cover!

This is apparently what we are making


Oh and as you can see from the cook times, full turkey dinner is done in less then 2o mins.


SO in summery...
MICROWAVE+TURKEY+20MINS= THANKSGIVING??

Tune in next week for...


(flips to a random page) CURRIED ASPARAGUS BISQUE!

Ahhhh the eighties...

Mom? Did my mom write that book?

Well, to be fair, earlier, non-chinese made microwave ovens could be really awesome. good ones can cook stuff really well. If you want to eat healthy, the best thing you can do is buy frozen vegetables and cook them in the microwave (I know, WTF ).

My parents have a microwave oven that's older than I am, at the time built by a huge company that has now gone bust. fully electronic (controlled by keybord, only mechanical button opens the door), different cooking and defrost modes, etc. You could make really good stuff with this. In fact, the best ratatouille recipe I've ever had requires some of the veg to be partially cooked in the microwave. Otherwise it doesnt taste as good

The same was true with VHS and the good old diskette. Old VHS player/recorders were just higher quality, came with 4 or more "heads" and were just awesome. You could pause and the image wasn't blury and stuff. Back in the days, how often would you have a diskette that suddenly needed formatting? never! The diskettes and the drives were higher quality than they are now. I have an old amstrad 8Mhz computer with an ISA hard drive, but we didnt put the operating system on it, only the games. for 15 years I used the original DOS/gem OS that shipped on 5 1⁄4-inch diskettes. That's right. 15 YEARS. Those floppy disks were actually "floppy" and the hole for the head didn't have any protection. You could buy some kind of tool to make additional hole in the floppies and make them double sided. try and do that with a dvd

Yeah, I was born the year the last State was inducted into the Union. Microwaves are the devils spawn of the nuclear age. In 197?? when my mom got her first microwave, she went from being the best Italian cook in the universe to, I ran out of the house when she said those fateful words..."I'm trying a new microwave recipe for dinner tonight".

A microwave is the most expensive defrosting device in stores today. I cook vegetables from a can in it but that's about it.My daughter caused a fire in the last one cooking a potato. :laugh:

Ren: I miss those old 5 1/4 floppy disks, I have an old 386 with good ol windows 3.1 back when everything was dos based..

I Thought It was really funny how people have such high hopes for "new" market technology, like this microwave cookbook, the back is riddled with blessings from the LA times, and Chicago's Suburban Life called it the "bible" of microwave cooking...what happens if someone finds this thing 3 or 4 hundred years from now lol. :pinch:

Jestor: Probably :silly:

well with floppy disks you're still talking IBM. what about the old mainfraim computers?

I never have nor never will use a microwave for a decent meal. hot pockets or baked potatoes ok i can compromise, but as a chef this lesson hurts. especially when its in such a nice eighties book lol.

lol and what is going on with the title? is that the books title that i cant see or something else lol.

It's french I translated to English via copy paste.