You don't have a microwave???

I have an old microwave that my grandchildren use to heat their milk or coffee when they come to visit. I use the rage or a small electric oven to do my cooking. i suppose the appliance I find more useful although It´s in my automatic pilot nd don´t think of it is the fridge (freezer included).

I know what you mean. I didn't have one for hte longest time when they first came out. Only reason I got one then was a gift from my mother in law when she got a second one and didn't have a use for it.... Anyway...I use mine only for heating stuff up...a few frozen dinners but for 98% of the time...heat up only. I can't stand the taste of food in the nuker as it is boiled from the inside out and that just doesnt't taste good to me! Meat especially. Just makes it tough. I can live without one. I guess the only other one I use enough to matter is my ice tea maker...but even then... boil the water on the stove and brew the tea. So really, I don't have an appliance that I depend on or would really even miss...okay, wait... my toaster oven. I do use that alot instead of my regular oven. With just two of us... no sense heating up that huge oven. I bake/cook in the toaster oven alot. Even use it to toast bread and warm things up. I guess that would be my favorite and not liking to do without.

I have one, and I do use it because it heats up my food quicker and I don't have to watch it constantly like I do on the stove..Though I had done without one, and yes it takes more time and sometimes even more dishes,and the only thing that would bother me is when I am fighting the time to get my school work done and keeping alert with coffee. I hate even lukewarm coffee and I sometimes have to reheat it... What can I never imagine I can live without? As much as I love my bread machine, mixer, blender, and juicer, I have lived without them, but it wasn't as easy. I think what I couldn't live without is my coffee maker..I love coffee and I know when we lost electricity for 4 days due to a bad storm, I was ever so grateful to my neighbor, she let me borrow her camping coffee maker and I was able to make coffee on our coleman stove..

I do have a microwave oven, have had one for far too many years to rember. This brings memories back to me as a few years back I started a discussion on here title something like.. "if you had to choose between your tumble dryer and mircowave which could you live without. In reply to my own question I said that I would get rid of the mircowave and would keep my tumble dryer. So I could live without one. Now I bet you are going ot tell me you haven't a tumble dryer either?? Ha Ha. There are five of us living in our house so an awful lot of washing, I would hate to have to try and dry everything without it, I think also if I had to choose between tumble and pc, the tumble would win as well.

I do not have a microwave. For awhile our family used one provided by my daughter. While they are convenient, they are not a healthy cooking method. They change the structure of food, destroy vitamins and other nutrients. Convenience is not an option for me when it puts my family's health at risk. The refrigerator is the appliance I most find necessary.

I find a microwave essential for saving time. I also like the fact it doesn't heat up the kitchen like a stove does. It's excellent for reheating. I resisited buying one for years because in the beginning everyone was concerned about radiation leaks. Then my mother came to live with us because she wasn't doing well physically. LOL the day I had to reheat her food 3 times is the day we decided we needed a microwave. It has been a convenience ever since. I think the one 'gaget' I miss the most if all were taken away is the internet. LOL years ago we managed without it but now I would not want to.

i do have a microwave. it is very useful and helpful since i cook my own food. microwave makes the reheating very easy. and i do it while doing other things. now, i'd say i am very grateful to rice cooker. as asian, my meal is not complete without rice. it is very convenient for me to cook rice. i can do it while my hands are on other things. i am not tied to cooking rice, but i love to cook the dishes with my own hands.

I avoided them for years, finally got one when we moved in here, used it to defrost half a dozen things in three years, and then it committed hara kiri and is now hiding under a table waiting for the next tip run. Lash

Hi jodylee! I also don't have a microwave oven and still don't have any plans of buying it! I just don't feel the need for having one. Well, washing machine makes my life easier but still I can live without it. Maybe flat iron? hehe coz with my husband's line of work, he always need to have a well ironed clothes and it will be expensive if I will pay for someone to iron his clothes. So a flat iron is very necessary in our house.

When I lived and worked in Asia, we didn't have a microwave. That appliance was available there, but it wasn't a necessity. Food and restaurants were readily available, and really cheap that it was more of the norm to eat warm food at little shops than re-heating food. I guess for me, the TV would be the appliance that I could not live without. Aside from its entertainment value, I use the white noise it creates to get to sleep, to study, and do work at home.

I too have opted out of it as I don't feel the need for it. I think it is required when people don't eat at the same time and that is not the case in my house. I have a cooking range which has 4 burners with the facility to bake and grill which takes care of my needs

If you are a vegetarian and eat extremely healthily there would be little for a microwave I would think. The biggest need for a modern combination microwave would be to avoid putting an oven on. The electric conventional ovens are very expensive to run and the modern combination microwave that we have just purchased is quicker and cheaper to run. We have a passion for roast potatoes and this new oven is the best replacement for conventional that we have used. Very pleased with purchase.

i have chinese friends and i was shocked to know that they even dont know that what is microwave oven ... they told me that most of their households dont have the microwave .. and they dont need it at all .. our lecturer also told me that during her visit to china, she saw such things .... and for me i can live without the air condition and fridge because i have to drink cool water ..

We also don't have a microwave, I've been thinking of buying one before, but I decided against it. I thought, "I have a cooking range", and I can just use that to heat whatever needs heating. =)

I have a microwave oven at home and it is useful for me because it can save a lot of time of cooking. I think it depends on your habit. If you don't have it for a long time, it is no problem for you. But when my old microwave oven doesn't work and it can not be fixed, then I go to buy a new one immediately. I don't get used to be without a microwave oven. And I also think that the washing machine is important for us since we never wash clothes by ourselves. It will be a tiring housework. I love China

The microwave may be important these days however it is not a total necessity and you can do without it I think. If you are a very good cook then you will definitely do without it. I think some professionals don't really think the microwave is that important.

Me,me,me(raising my hand)! I don't have a microwave. So what? I can have it when I have the money. How do I preheat food, well we have a stove at least to use although don't ask me about baking and cooking about cakes and pastries because that really needs an oven or microwave . Someday, hoping! soon I will be able to have it also!

i use the microwave a lot, not just for heating but for cooking. it just makes my cooking a lot easier, less things to wash afterwards and its also a lot quicker to cook things.

I have both, a microwave and a stove. Sadly, because there are times I don't have enough time to get everything done, I tend to use the microwave more than my stove. My oven doesn't bake as fast as it should. It once took me two hours just to bake chicken when it should only take an hour at the most, 30 minutes at the least. Currently with my financial status I cannot afford a new stove. My microwave though has saved me a lot of times and my food has always tasted cooked all the way through. I really think it all depends on the watts being used and the type of food chosen to microwave. There are some foods you just can't microwave and expect to eat. I've never owned a rice cooker before, but I would love to own a toaster oven. They're great for Texas Toasts and pizzas.

wkwkwkkwkwk not have any right to use microwave minht have preferred the cooked dishes and fresh ^__^