I don’t know exactly why we don’t see more tricks like this, but I can make a couple of suggestions: 1) For most people, active cooking time is a bigger cost than wall time. 2) Using a microwave for cooking is low-status. 3) Many people don’t own a microwave. Alternatively, microwave are generally smaller than ovens and don’t contain dishes for big families. 3)bis : many recipes were written, or are derivative of recipes written at a time where microwave did not exists and have not been updated.
In most of the places I’ve lived since going to uni, I’ve had a microwave but no oven. Some were both microwave and oven. One was no microwave and no oven. There was not a single one with an oven but no microwave.
Microwave but no oven was standard when I lived in Uni/students housing. Oven but no microwave seems quite frequent in France though—I’m French as you can guess.
For most people, active cooking time is a bigger cost than wall time.
Probably also depends on whether you cook for yourself, or for kids. For myself, whatever, if it takes 1 hour to cook, I will just read some internet in the meanwhile. For kids, needs to be done quickly.
I don’t know exactly why we don’t see more tricks like this, but I can make a couple of suggestions:
1) For most people, active cooking time is a bigger cost than wall time.
2) Using a microwave for cooking is low-status.
3) Many people don’t own a microwave. Alternatively, microwave are generally smaller than ovens and don’t contain dishes for big families.
3)bis : many recipes were written, or are derivative of recipes written at a time where microwave did not exists and have not been updated.
In most of the places I’ve lived since going to uni, I’ve had a microwave but no oven. Some were both microwave and oven. One was no microwave and no oven. There was not a single one with an oven but no microwave.
Microwave but no oven was standard when I lived in Uni/students housing. Oven but no microwave seems quite frequent in France though—I’m French as you can guess.
Probably also depends on whether you cook for yourself, or for kids. For myself, whatever, if it takes 1 hour to cook, I will just read some internet in the meanwhile. For kids, needs to be done quickly.