How Britain fell in love with the microwave

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 976 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a recent survey, the microwave was voted the kitchen gadget that people couldn't live without. 83% of all households in the UK have a microwave, yet many say they only use this hi tech device for re heating food. Sheila Dillon discovers how influences the way we eat, live and cook.

The editor of BBC Good Food magazine Gillian Carter believes that there is an emerging sector who are using it to make full, nutritious dinners using new recipes tailored to their microwave.

Microwaves were patented 60 years ago and hailed as the future of cookery. Helen Peavitt from the Science Museum in London explains how they went from hi tech war weapon to domestic every day item. Meanwhile self-proclaimed microwave hater food journalist Andrew Webb challenges himself to cook a full three course dinner entirely in the microwave.

Presenter Sheila Dillon. Producer Ruth Sanderson.

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0:57.4	a microwave cooking.
1:04.0	Okay.
1:05.0	Ooh, search.
1:09.0	microwave risotto primavera.
1:11.0	Hmm, sounds good.
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