I started cooking pasta in a microwave when my daughter was a toddler. I couldn’t leave a pot boiling away on the stove to go and chase her. Even though my daughter is now kitchen-savvy, it worked so well I’ve never been tempted to go back. You can cook standard dried or frozen pasta very well in a microwave, with only a few minutes of actual cooking time and almost no need to stay close by. You can cook rice too–and we’re not talking Minute Rice, either. Basmati rice, the queen of difficult rices, cooks perfectly in a microwave.
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