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Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by iridium_core on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:09PM (#25565429)
If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.
Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by gotem on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:35PM (#25565649)
Me too. You can even go faster by sealing the food with some insulator (e.g. plastic or tinfoil) to make it retain heat and cook faster in the microwave.
Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by criddell on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:10PM (#25566331)
Tinfoil in the microwave? Doesn’t it arc?
Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by knicknic on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:00AM (#25566907)
That’s what the government wants you to believe.
Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by smichel17 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:59AM (#25570282)
I don't know the answer to this, but my grandma has an old microwave with a metal grill that your food rests on (like a rack in a conventional oven). I am not sure if it is the type of metal or the shape (it has a squiggly bend on each side, in the middle[0]), but it's definitely possible for metal to go in the microwave without sparking.

[0] very similar to this https://i.redd.it/7nakjihppwy11.jpg

Re:The sweet danger of sugar (2017) by Geezus_42 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:28AM (#25567858)
I believe that depends whether it's actually tin or instead aluminum.