Your microwave can do a lot more than reheat leftovers. In this video, Nicole puts 18 clever microwave hacks, suggestions, and tricks to the test, from peeling garlic and butternut squash with ease to reviving stale bread, reheating rice, and softening butter without melting it. She even shows how the microwave can assist you dry fresh herbs, poach an egg, cook pasta, and make a warm chocolate mug cake in less than 5 minutes.
Along the way, find Nicole's highest-rated microwave techniques, including her "12/10" technique for shucking corn and a dried herb hack that makes an outstanding "100/10." Plus, discover properly to reheat food without drying it out, make crispy potato chips in your home, toast nuts, steam vegetables, sterilize sponges, and even tidy your microwave when the work is done. These simple kitchen area hacks might totally alter the method you use your microwave.
Timestamps:
0:00– 18 Microwave Hacks You Required to Know
0:23– Juicing Dry Citrus
1:02– Easy Peel Garlic
1:39– Peeling Butternut Squash
2:54– Shucking Corn
3:50– Mug Cake
5:50– Ice Rice
6:50– Reviving Stale Bread
7:58– Softening Butter
8:35– Drying Herbs
10:15– Poached Eggs
11:40– Tear-Free Onions
12:27– Steaming or Parcooking
14:40– Reheating properly
16:17– Crispy Chips
17:54– Toasting Nuts
19:02– Cooking Pasta
20:26– Steam Cleansing
22:11– Sanitizing Sponges
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Better hack with the corn after microwaving is to slice the stock or thick end taking off the first tiny bit of corn. Then grab an oven mitt and squeeze the cob out from the pointy end.
Doing it your way also keeps the silk inside the husk instead of on the corn. 😊
Yes that’s what I do
This totally works and I had forgotten about it, so thank you!
That’s the way I do it too. Works every time. And I find that the corn is cooked as well.
I do the same! Best way!
Could you make a video of different dishes using squash? Please?
Yes, would love to know how she uses it in chili!
Garlic, sponge, butternut squash, cleaning, lime, pasta, herbs, potatoes, and potatoes chips are all new to me. Thank you Nicole!!!! Take a break and rest. You deserve it!!!!
Finally, a video that actually teaches me how to use my microwave beyond just reheating leftovers. Pure genius!❤
I’m a 73 year old widow and I love your channel 💕 I made homemade chips when I was a teenager 😋 I like them extra brown, have you tried to dip them in chocolate 🤔ohhhh my goodness, that’s a snack for special occasions 😊 my sister was 12 years older than me. Her husband thought the tuna casserole was chicken🤦♀️thank you for all the cool tips, gotta do the drying Christmas tree 🎄 😊have a blessed week 👑🙏🏼
Just tried the poached egg and I was surprised, how good it turned out 👏👏👏🙏🥰
Thank you for trying and sharing!
It works better if you heat the water below boiling, add the egg, heat a little longer until a strong simmer, then let sit 3-5 minutes. The cooking times scale for up to 4 eggs and the sitting time declines.
Nicole is so much fun.
My mom cooks the butternut squash with the peel on and then scoops out the insides! :))
That’s how I make my pumpkin purée too
That baked ziti looked delicious! We need the recipe!! Thanks for all the tips! 💕
I want your dorm room tuna casserole recipe. You could do a whole episode on dorm room cooking.
Great idea! Especially with kids back to college now.
There was a book called the starving students cookbook many years ago…you’d like it, nicole.
The BEST way to keep your microwave Clean, is to buy a random glass lid at a thrift store and always cover your food with it when cooking. This also steams your food so you don’t have to use plastic wrap – and consume all the chemicals that come in plastic wrap. It’s awesome for rice! Additionally, I never cook on high in the microwave, I always cook on medium or medium high ensuring even cooking every time. After all, we don’t always cook on high on the stove, do we? We shouldn’t in the microwave either. Food for thought 💭…
I like turtles…
I make sure everything I put in the microwave is covered and I only clean my microwave with a cup of water boiled and paper towels.
I’m assuming that your glass lid doesn’t have any metal on it!
I’ve used a bowl with a plate on top to the same end.
@scottm4042 Of course! Like an old casserole dish lid.
For the chocolate mug cake, put a chunk of chocolate in the middle of the mixture (make sure its well covered by the batter otherwise it will burn). After cooking, it’ll turn into a “melt in the middle” chocolate cake. Just let it cool for a few minutes before eating though.
Yummmm
How times have changed. In the early 80s, we cooked mac & cheese in the blue box in a Presto Hot Shot (made to just boil water, but the whole box fit in it)! lol
A few things: to see if something is heated all the way through, touch the bottom of the plate. If the bottom of the plate is hot, it is fully reheated. The half power for twice as long is a fantastic method. I have used it forever. Consider using a paper plate as a lid. I don’t like cooking with plastic anywhere near my microwave.
Nicole, I just want you to know that I enjoy watching your shows. You are funny and down to earth. You were made for TV.
Thank you!
AGREE! She’s my favorite of all the TV and online chefs!!!!
Why I watch this channel…your voice and accent. I know someone who sounded just like you and lost touch, so yep, nostalgic. I don’t eat like this anymore, but the recipes bring back so many memories, again, nostalgic. I enjoy the simplicity and authenticity. So thank you.
what about a pressure cooker/instant pot series. Maybe? Please?
You can make the mug cake, substituting, almond flour, and a Stevia based or erythritol sweetener… Go easier on the sweetener because it is very sweet and I add just a bit of pink salt too ,and have the same dessert… And then it’s pretty healthy as well… It’s yummy too and no guilt for the sugar!
I never end up buying fresh herbs because I never end up using hardly any of it and it goes bad. That microwave hack is going to save me a fortune! Thank you