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Re:Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? by thenomad on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:58AM (#7089779)
Speaking as someone with a commercial-grade sous-vide bath and variable-temperature PID-controlled pouring kettle sitting on his worktop, a microwave is also a useful gadget even for high-end cookery.

It's one of the best ways to cook many green vegetables, for example, and also makes remarkably good poached eggs:

http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/inside-our-kitchen/ar...

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Re:Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? by stephencanon on Monday January 20, 2014 @01:37PM (#7091048)
It’s not that I don’t think they’re useful; rather that the marginal utility (for us) of having one isn’t worth the kitchen space that it would cost us. Once every few months I wish we had one, but once every few months I wish I had lots of things. I try not to make a habit of rushing out to buy them.
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