@trinsec Seriously it works, and the egg isnt bad at all... my life will never be the same!

@freemo *Eyes the other comments* Oh.. you could've clarified sooner. :P So not raw egg intact in its shell, but raw egg put in something else, shell already gone?

Yeah, that would work fine.

@trinsec yea you crack the egg first... I see what you mean you cant do a hardboiled type egg like this, it would just explode. Though perhaps if you vented the shell you could do it in the shell, but no not what id try personally.

@freemo Yeah, that'd explode. I once saw a gadget in a Blokker that claims that you can make a hardboiled egg in the microwave. Basically it was just another type of shell to go around your egg. I thought, huh, lemme try that. It didn't work and I returned that dumb gadget. ;) Thankfully it exploded inside there, so the microwave was still clean. Still a dumb thing lol.

@trinsec I have a special device (basically a steamer) if i want hard boiled eggs.

You could of course just crack and egg in a tiny bowl, not mix it, and microwave it and effectively get a plain cooked egg. Only difference between microwaving in a shell, aside from the explosion, would be the shape.

Thing is I dont think any gadget will get a microwave egg to have the consistency of a hard boiled one, they come out more like a pan fried one, which tends to be slightly aerated.

So yea, if you really want it hard boiled style I dont think any amount of magic will get that from a microwave.

@trinsec Actually what i just said might not be true.. if you vented the top of the egg and microwaved it at very low power such that it never really gets above 100C you might just get a hardboiled-like egg out of it.

@freemo My mom got a steamer too. I just throw them (not literally) in a pan with some water to boil for 10-15 mins.

Isn't the method you described about 'hardboiling eggs outside their shell' just poached eggs?

@trinsec strictly speaking a poached egg is a hardboiled egg outside the shell done in water. Since I am proposing cooking it without water in the microwave im not sure its the same thing.

@bonifartius Usaually I use my microwave for reaheating rather than cooking. But I bought something called "just crack an egg" on a whim as i needed a no-cleanup breakfast that wasnt high in carbs. Wasnt till i cooked it that I realized it was just raw egg being cooked in the microwave (its a cup, you crack your own raw egg into it, and there is cheese and some sausage crumbles in there, you mix it then microwave).

Obviously after trying it out this morning and realizing the egg tasted pretty decent I will probably start doing this in the future on my own (no need to buy this product which is really doing anything).. So in the future im just going to buy some paper bowels, and throw in 2 eggs, some cheese and crumble up a slice of pre cooked bacon.

@freemo
sounds interesting, i'll try that out! it's funny how some of the convenience products are rather easy to prepare yourself :)

some microwave recipes:

if one only needs a few potatoes, it's usually much faster to cook them in the microwave in a bowl with some mm of water and a lid on top. takes 6-7 minutes from my experience, just don't let it run out of water for producing steam.

put mushrooms together with olive oil, salt&pepper and crushed garlic in a microwaveable bag and shake it so that the mushrooms are covered, then microwave for 2-3 minutes. this is from https://tmblr.co/Zq4wGtiCzgi6 .

@bonifartius Indeed, on the one hand i wonder why they ever invested in products that are so easily replicated at home... this product is literally jut a bowl with some shreded cheese in it and precooked sausage crumbles. Price wise its probably 5x doing it yourself (how much can a small amount of cheese and sausage really cost on a large scale!)

I have heard about potatoes, for me that one seems less useful simply because the only thing it seems to replace is a baked potato, which frankly i dont eat often. The sorts of potato im more likely to eat is going to be either fried (though on a diet hopefully not) or atleast crisped on a pan like home fries. The only non-crisped form of potato I could see cooking with is mashed potatoes and im not sure how well that would work in a microwave, though i could see it working.

All that said your particular recipie (which goes beyond an ordinary baked potato) actually sounds rather decent and quick. It might be worth a try as a side dish to something. May not be as good as cooking it on a pan and crisping the potato a bit but in a pinch it will still save a lot of time.

@freemo i think many people can't really cook anymore, judging from what i see people buy in the store :)

i usually cook potatoes before i fry them in the pan (idk if that's a german thing?). i also eat them cooked rather often, for example with eggs and green sauce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sauce#Germany or a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_potato#Turkey .

while something fried in the pan is always better, the microwave version is surprisingly good :)

@bonifartius There is certainly a decline in the last 50 years or so in people who can cook well. I think its just a consequence of a world who used to view cooking skills as a requirement for women. Now that that idea is mostly dead there is much less pressure to teach cooking skills to women and thus far less skilled women cooking. Men probably couldnt cook then or now, at least on the average. Of course there are always exceptions and many men and women can still cook well but less than what it used to be I'd imagine.

Cooking potatoes before frying them works just fine, it will get you a softer center. Its all about what you want. but for me when im cooking for myself and not some party or something there is a high priority to make the cleanup and cooking process as simple as possible. So if im going to be messing up a pan anyway i probably wont go through the extra step of pre-cooking my potatoes in a microwave.

I love a good potato, I add it to many ingredients like stews. But I also am trying to keep my carbs low so at least at the moment I am trying not to lean on potatoes too much as a filler.

@freemo @bonifartius if you're "cooking" anything in a microwave you're already far off the beaten track of normal and healthy behavior. We don't even own a microwave.

@kireicake

There is absolutely nothing less healthy about an egg cooked in a microwave as opposed to a pan, so thats just nonsense. In fact int he microwave I dont need to add oil as I dont need to worry about it sticking, so in fact one could argue the microwave route is healthier.

@bonifartius

@kireicake does the microwave create harmful anti-orgons?

congratulations for not owning an appliance, i hope you also don't use wifi or a cell phone. those are also in the microwave band, and probably near to your testicles ;)

@freemo

@kireicake

Assuming microwaved food was less healthy and assuming that microwaving is better for the environment. Wouldn't that correlate with a lot of other behaviors we are already doing? Sacrificing our own wellbeing for the environment...

@bonifartius @freemo

@barefootstache
i have two reasons why caring for the environment is a good thing, one rational, one emotional:

- our own wellbeing correlates with the wellbeing of the environment. nature as whole will have no problem dealing with the problems we create.

- it is morally better to not destroy living things or their habitats.

@kireicake @freemo

@freemo from my experience there are two camps, "can cook reasonably good" and "i can cook pasta and pour the ready made sauce". i think the increased quality of convenience food is also a reason for people not cooking. if you are ok with everything being a bit too sweet/salty/etc. you can get quite a variety of things now.

what i've always thought is interesting is that cooking was a classic women duty in families, while professional cooking was not viewed upon as "unmanly".

i usually make fried potatoes from leftover cooked ones. all my tries to with fried raw potatoes were kind of disappointing, either not fully done on the inside or not crisp enough. guess i haven't found the trick for that yet :)

potatoes are my favourite carbs, they are much lighter on my digestion than other things and at least count as vegetable :P

@valleyforge That is exactly what I did when i learned I could cook egg int he microwave. It was a gimick food thing that was basically a plastic bowl with some cheese and crumbled sausage in it. You add your own egg and microwave. I didnt realize what it was when I bought it but now that I know you can cook raw egg like that this is exactly what I'll be doing in the future.