Microwave Programming

Since my parents moved out, I have been doing a lot of microwave cooking. Purely by accident, I found out this week that you can preprogram power and time settings if the heating instructions requires it. On my microwave (Panasonic), you first set the power level followed by the cook time. If you hit the power level button again, you can put in another power/time combination and the microwave will continue cooking/heating using the second set of settings.

For example, I get these Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches that require a defrost program and a heating program. I used to do them separately, one after the other. Now, I can set 30% power and 90 seconds immediately followed by 100% power and 50 seconds then walk away. Of course, I do not get to flip the sandwich, but it came out fine.

In addition, I like the croissant sandwiches better than the muffin ones. They have the same content: sausage, egg, and cheese, but the muffins become chewy and hard to bite when heated in a microwave.