Microwaving burritos + all things microwave

[edoz]

Please share your tips and techniques for microwaving those rolls of pseudo-Mexican goodness.

o/ Wade!

[bellman]

I tear a little hole in the corner, twist the dial to 'burrito'. I think its three minutes..... every circle K is different, and cook it untill the plastic just starts to melt onto the surface of the tortilla. A foot long usually takes 7-9 packs of taco sauce but I can choke down a regualr with 4-5.

Is that what you meant? :-)

[WadePatton]

one in every crowd...oh wait here two.

don't think, don't even think that i haven't eaten a truckload of them there least offensive of microwave "sandwiches". but not in quite a long while.

i hate the touchpads on mw's, give me a twist knob any day. twist/go is all the input that mw's need. keypads and menus are just sales crap.

[edoz]

I find that the Tina's burritos are fine just going in for the 2 minutes, but the Bomb burritos need to be flipped over mid-nuke. Of course, that changes when i take them home and cook them. I'm also having trouble adjusting to the new microwave, I've shrink wrapped a couple:(

[WadePatton]

remember when you had to turn/flip everything heated in a m/w? before m/w turntables...i think jimmy carter was president.

seriously, the power levels have changed and the complexity is effing ridiculous. when confronted by a strange modern flat-panel-chock-full-of-icons, by the time i sort our which seven buttons to push for a quick high-power blast or an extended med-power run, i could have heated a pan/oven/toaster. i blame it on the marketing department. the menu is not the microwave.

in protest, i have returned to the stovetop for the popping of corn. (but maybe we should expand this thread* to include m/w popping corn tricks and techniques)

power knob, timer knob, turntable- everything a m/w ever needed. wiki mofo.



oh and don't stand there and hug the thing while it's running, the radio waves do leak out. it's not nucular, but you don't want too much. See the new FCC rules on radio-frequency exposure to learn more.

also, see those little holes in the viewing window? those are just smaller than the wavelength used to agitate the molecules in the food--or burrito as the case may be. if you bore those out-you can heat your house_not recommended. most everything else radio-facilitated, uses much larger waves/lower frequencies.


on the popping of corn in the m/w: we (back when there were more popcorn munchers residing here) developed this: inverted plate as riser on the turntable and small jar of water tucked into a corner of the machine. and we all had our favorite time setting--all w/in a few seconds of each other-numbers are irrelevant as the machines vary in output power. we stopped development at that point, satisfied with our maximization of the POPulation w/o scorching anything.

[WadePatton]

I find that the Tina's burritos are fine just going in for the 2 minutes, but the Bomb burritos need to be flipped over mid-nuke. Of course, that changes when i take them home and cook them. I'm also having trouble adjusting to the new microwave, I've shrink wrapped a couple:(

who is Tina? is she no Bomb? will she not cook them for you?

[maunahaole]

I'm down with stovetop corn popping. Yields a superior result. I use peanut oil. No butter. Plenty good flavor from the oil.

[edoz]

who is Tina? is she no Bomb? will she not cook them for you?

Behold, Don Miguel's BOMB Burritos.


and Tina



although Butcher Boy is a new contender at my local convenience store, and I'm trying one out right now.

[WadePatton]

so like is Don dating Tina? pretty impressive to put your girl's name on all your burritos. we just used the watertower.

or did Don buy Tina out and then subject her recipes to industrialization thereby destroying the essence of Tina's Burritos?

I'm not accusing Don of anything. I mean hell, who would buy "Don's Burritos"? Could be his middle name.

butcher boy.

[Ben]

Put an ear of corn, shuck and all, in the microwave for three minutes. You will never fix it any other way. Makes week-old grocery store corn taste like fresh-picked, and makes fresh-picked orgasmic. Makes butter and salt superfluous. Truly the reason the microwave was invented.

[Nate@Scarab]

One of the few culinary benefits of Utah - palatable frozen burritos from Rico.



Yes, they actually look like that, and taste is on par with many mid-tier restaurant offerings. Sadly, even the more "healthy" varieties contain upwards of 900 calories and take six minutes to cook in the nukemachine, thanks to the girth.

[WadePatton]

sounds plausible ben.

my nuke is used mostly for re-heating coffee i forgot to drink when hot.

[rmplum]

They are SO much better if you have the foresight to leave them out a few hours beforehand to thaw a bit.

Then give it a bath in your favorite hot sauce.

[Ben]

sounds plausible ben.

my nuke is used mostly for re-heating coffee i forgot to drink when hot.

Try it, please, and report back (the corn, not the coffee). Since a buddy turned me on to it earlier this summer, I've been evangelical about it. Easier to cook, easier to shuck (silks just fall off), easier to clean up (nothing to wash), better tasting (since the sugar gets concentrated instead of leaching out into the boiling water) and probably more nutritious (vitamins don't leach either). All that yellow stuff you pour out after you're done boiling corn is, apparently, delicious.

[WadePatton]

aye, too late here. field corn was being harvested two days ago. next year fer sher.

[zetroc]

Not to turn this into a corn thread (Wade?) but my favorite way to prepare corn is to throw it on the grill, husk and all. The flavor can't be beat. I have yet to try the microwave thing though, so we might have to have a taste off soon.

[WadePatton]

ricotta freakin' cheese--made in microwave last night. whooda thunkit?

that's "made" eric not "melted".

cheers

[WadePatton]

Put an ear of corn, shuck and all... Truly the reason the microwave was invented.

oh my, that _is_ delightful and is/was lunch today

but i thought al gore invented the microwave...no wait, he invented carbon footyprints.