I liked this article about an old recipe book and what cooking could have looked like if we took microwave cooking seriously: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav...

i'd imagine when microwaves first came out chefs were genuinely excited? it's pretty insanely magical to observe ... at first.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually more common than one might think

This makes me curious.

Are there any documented essays or reactions from the great chefs of back in the day reacting to the first microwave dinners?

People are so confident that this just-a-tool will hit its limits any day now...

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