Note to self: two days before you plan to eat your Michelina's Lean Gourmet lasagna, take it out of the freezer to thaw it out.
During lunch yesterday, I used 1/3 of my lunch time heating my lasagna. Accordin to the directions, "microwave on high for 4 minutes." After 4 minutes, it was still frozen solid. After an addtional 2 minutes, the sauce was hot as hell but it was still frozen in the middle. 2 more minutes of microwaving barely brought the middle up to room temperature. At this point, I had less then 20 minutes left and said to hell with it and at it as is.
When you see a microwave meal, you think of fast and easy - just what you need for lunch at work. Au contraire. Take a walk down down the frozen meal aisle at the store - the shelves that have the big meals (entree with two side dishes) are fully stocked while the shelves that have the smaller meals of pasta or rice antrees are almost bare. Why, do you ask? No, it's not because the big meals are more expensive. It's because most of us don't want to spend all of our lunch break waiting for our alleged fast meal to heat up. It would be a breeze if we could pop our meal in the microwave, go back to our desks and work until our meal was cooked, and then get off the clock for lunch. Even if our bosses would let us do that, it still would not work; most of these meals call for you to "rotate tray one-quarter turn every two minutes." You'd run yourself ragged going back and forth from your desk to the microwave. Then, as if that's not bad enough, the instructions also say "let stand in microwave for 2 minutes." Meanwhile, there's a line of people waiting to use the microwave while your meal just sits there resting from its ordeal. No wonder the majority of my co-workers bring a simple bologna sandwich for lunch.
4 comments:
Microwave hog. :) Kidding!
This is also why I bring canned soup to warm up. No Arctic-freeze issues to worry about.
I just spent 7 1/2 minutes warming up a frozen chinese entree. I opened the box and received a steam burn. Figuring it was hot as hell, took it out and ate it only to find myself sucking on frozen chicken.
Lachlan, I'm going to assume that you are NOT one of the guilty parties that a) leaves their soup unattended, only to come back and find that it has exploded all over the inside of the microwave, and b) grabs their bowl and leaves without cleaning the shrapnel that has become imbedded in the microwave walls. I know your Mama raised you better than that.
Damn skippy my momma raised me better!!!
No, I stand there and wait, as much out of impatience and a desire to be pelted with radiation as consideration. :)
~Lachlan
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