Food and Drink Venting your microwave meal. - Page 2

**SuperChief** · 01-30-2013, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by rageeumr

Use a knife, 2 second rinse, quick wipe with a paper towel, right back in the knife block.

YOU HAVE A WHOLE BLOCK FOR JUST YOUR KNIVES?!??

rageeumr · 01-30-2013, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperChief

YOU HAVE A WHOLE BLOCK FOR JUST YOUR KNIVES?!??

We stunt hard in my house.

listopencil · 01-30-2013, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperChief

YOU HAVE A WHOLE BLOCK FOR JUST YOUR KNIVES?!??

I heat my food in a kiln, powered by dragons, and I quench my meat in unicorn blood. It's more expensive but I'm worth it.

**J Diddy** · 01-30-2013, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

I heat my food in a kiln, powered by dragons, and I quench my meat in unicorn blood. It's more expensive but I'm worth it.

If you add just a drop of Bronco tear, it is magnificent.

epitome1170 · 01-31-2013, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by rageeumr

Use a knife, 2 second rinse, quick wipe with a paper towel, right back in the knife block.

Remind me not to use your knives when I eat at your house.

**Lumpy** · 01-30-2013, 01:30 PM

I slit the film, then toss the knife in soapy dishwater. Then I get really pissed that I have to clean the damn thing just so I could devour a disgusting tv dinner.

JBucc · 01-30-2013, 01:30 PM

There's the cardboard ones that tell you to peel up the corner, so I'm gonna assume its perfectly ok to do so and the rest of the TV dinner makers are in bed with big knife.

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 01-30-2013, 01:32 PM

Probably insignificant, but there could be some practical difference in venting through the center versus one corner.

T-Town · 01-30-2013, 01:35 PM

The cardboard ones I used to get just make you peel up the corner. $0.88 each FTW

**Canofbier** · 01-30-2013, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by T-Town

The cardboard ones I used to get just make you peel up the corner. $0.88 each FTW

Ugh. I've shied away from the cheap microwave meals (especially the non-frozen ones) ever since I ate these things for lunch for almost an entire week at a new job:

I was crapping out lightly colored ooze (about the same as the gravy in that picture) for a few days, even after I stopped eating them. I thought my digestive system had broken or something.

T-Town · 01-30-2013, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Canofbier

Ugh. I've shied away from the cheap microwave meals (especially the non-frozen ones) ever since I ate these things for lunch for almost an entire week at a new job:

I was crapping out lightly colored ooze (about the same as the gravy in that picture) for a few days, even after I stopped eating them. I thought my digestive system had broken or something.

Some of them did bad things to me but I usually blamed it on the beer. Couldn't be the cheap processed crap for food I'm taking in

**Canofbier** · 01-30-2013, 01:37 PM

I usually grab my nearest chef's knife and then swing it at the film (with my wrist) several times: POP! POP! POP! If I'm lucky, I still have all my fingers and my microwave meal is appropriately vented. Washing the knife? Nah, the food was still frozen, doesn't count.

patteeu · 01-30-2013, 01:38 PM

Sometimes you shouldn't take those directions too explicitly. When I was in college, I made a batch of brownies from a box mix. The box instructions said to "mix by hand" so I rolled up my sleeves, washed my hands and started mixing. How was I supposed to know that "mix by hand" really means "mix with a utensil but don't use an electric mixer"?

okoye35chiefs · 01-30-2013, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by patteeu

Sometimes you shouldn't take those directions too explicitly. When I was in college, I made a batch of brownies from a box mix. The box instructions said to "mix by hand" so I rolled up my sleeves, washed my hands and started mixing. How was I supposed to know that "mix by hand" really means "mix with a utensil but don't use an electric mixer"?

same with shampoo...I've been in the shower for days now...

wash, rinse, repeat... when the hell do I stop!

**Lumpy** · 01-30-2013, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by okoye35chiefs

same with shampoo...I've been in the shower for days now...

wash, rinse, repeat... when the hell do I stop!

When you run out of shampoo.

You're welcome.

View Poll Results: When getting ready to heat a frozen microwave meal, I...
Slit the film with a knife, per the explicit instructions on the box.	26	38.24%
Peel back the corner, because I'm a rebel without a cause.	25	36.76%
I never eat frozen microwave meals because I kill my own meat and vegetables.	13	19.12%
I've never learned to use a microwave. I have a lower back tattoo so I have to stay away.	4	5.88%
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll

01-30-2013, 01:30 PM	#6
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01-30-2013, 01:30 PM	#7
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01-30-2013, 01:35 PM	#9
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01-30-2013, 01:37 PM	#12
Canofbier ¡RIOS MIO! Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Minneapolis Casino cash: $5886981	I usually grab my nearest chef's knife and then swing it at the film (with my wrist) several times: POP! POP! POP! If I'm lucky, I still have all my fingers and my microwave meal is appropriately vented. Washing the knife? Nah, the food was still frozen, doesn't count.
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01-30-2013, 01:38 PM	#13
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