Talking Microwave Oven

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It is an extremely important feature for the visually impaired since it enables you to operate the microwave hands-free or use other smart devices such as your smartphone to control it. You can adapt standard equipment to work for you by adding bumpons and using Tacti-Mark. Bumpons are self-adhesive dots, or squares, which come in different colours and sizes. You simply peel them off and place them on buttons, around dials and so on, giving you a highly visible and tactile indicator of things, such as your most frequently used temperature setting.

A 2020 survey of 600 consumers across Europe found that almost all of them used the microwave just for thawing and reheating frozen food. This is such a wasted opportunity. The microwave can be a brilliantly useful device once you learn what it is good at. Chef David Chang – founder of Momofuku in the US – calls the microwave “the single best piece of equipment in a kitchen” in his book Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave). I wouldn’t go that far, but I would say it is a hugely underrated piece of kitchen equipment. Not only does this offer more control over the microwave’s functions but is also a great option for visually impaired individuals who are not tech-savvy and want something more traditional. The 5 Best Talking Microwaves For The Visually Impaired Using a microwave to cook vegetables is often easier and safer. You can also fry chips and other food using an air fryer. These often require just one tablespoon of oil and fry the food in a sealed container which doesn’t get hot to the touch.But either way, it’s much less radiation than you would be exposed to by simply standing near to an open fireplace burning wood (50mW/cm 2). So, far from being dangerous, the microwave is one of the safest ways to get food hot. An anti-slip tray placed under a mug can be useful when making a hot drink – if the liquid spills it can be easily cleaned from the tray rather than spreading over a work surface. Easily sending instructions with your voice can avoid contaminating the appliance when your hands are full of ingredients and needed to control the microwave.

When boiling vegetables, you can place a water boil alert at the bottom of the pan to help detect when the water is bubbling. In 2020, Nigella Lawson almost broke the internet just by saying the word “microwave”. The food writer was heating milk for mashed potatoes on her TV series Cook, Eat, Repeat when she commented that she liked to heat the milk in a mee-crow-waa-vay, as if it were some kind of obscure yet deeply sophisticated European food gadget. It was a joke, clearly, but some people didn’t understand this and Nigella was forced to explain that she did actually know how microwave was normally pronounced. By the following year, the clip of Nigella saying “mee-crow-waa-vay” had become so popular it was nominated for a Bafta.

Use the right knife for cutting and slicing. A blunt knife is not necessarily safer than a sharp one because you need to exert more pressure and the knife might slip.