Have you ever overcooked something in the microwave?

The only thing I've actually overcooked in the microwave was popcorn. I'm not sure how I really managed to do it, because I put the right setting on and everything and it still overcooked. It burned terribly, it was smoking and it smelled disgusting. I haven't tried to make popcorn in that microwave since. I'm not brave enough to try it again.

Yes, many times.. I over cooked waffles and anything that had bread to it. I have done this with my daughter many times..

Yes, I have. That is really easy to do with items that are bread or made with something breadlike. Of course I have also overcooked on top of the stove, and inside the stove. I have even managed to overcook in a crockpot, resulting in an ugly mush.

I've never cooked something that dried out, but I did burn some chocolate that I tried to melt. I also over-nuked a cup of coffee once, and the dang thing turned into a coffee fountain. it bubbled over, and the entire inside of my microwave was covered in coffee.

oh i've blowm up many a dinner in a micro wave or not thinking put something metal in it and watched the sparks fly. but now this is cool,if you have kids or know someone who does put a bar of ivory soap on a paper towel and put it on high for a few minutes and watch the show,nothing messy the bar just keeps foaming and foaming but kids like to watch it and hey it's soap easy wipe down, ")

Ohhh, many many times. My microwave is slightly broken so it has no display on it. You set the time, but you can't see how long you set it for. I habitually overpress the buttons thinking I'm putting something in for 1 minute and it turns out to be ten, or I put something in for 5 minutes and it turnes out to be almost an hour! I walk away and a little while later I realize the microwave hasn't stopped yet...snack destroyed.

Yes Ofcourse ! many a times and many a things, includng charring of popcorns to making a porridge instead of rice etc.Initially when we aquired the micro wave Oven, we had no idea about the quantity of food and the duration together with the intensity to get good results. And to add to our miseries we have lot of voltage fluctuations which totally disbalances your all presumptions about microw wave cooking! Now having had good experience I can now get nice dishes out of micro wave oven without much of fuss ! Thanks! It was a light and cheerful topic of discussion ! I enjoyed participating in it!

Hello beauty queen. Though quite a few families in China love to use microwaves, we have not bought one yet. We still prefer our traditional way of cooking over the stove in a wok. My friend left an oven, but I seldom use it as I don't see that I need to use it somehow. Maybe some day I will use it for baking if I am interested in learning how. . .

i think i already did it many times. but i remember one time when i have cooked popcorn in the microwave, the popcorn almost turns black and tastes like charcoal! even the pouch itself almost been burnt out! really tastes bad! too bad i have to throw them all away... no ones gonna eat popcorn that way.

I burn popcorn a lot! We really need a new microwave though. Ours is like 6 years old. It over-cooks half of something while leaving the other half cold. It is very irritating. I am just too cheap to spring for a new one while the thing still turns on! lol I know I should though. I tend to over-heat breads a lot. They only need to be in there a couple of seconds but I forget and leave them in too long. I pull it out and as soon as it cools it is as hard as rock!

My microwave is fine for long time settings, but dreadful when it comes to setting it for short periods. It has a dial which isn't very sensitive. It's hard to heat a cup of milk for instance, as you have to put it on for a couple of minutes but remember to take it out after 30 seconds. I am forever forgetting and welding burnt milk to the bottom of the machine!

I tend to under cook it and then over cook it. Our microwave is messing up, we need a new one, but well, we are trying to find one with a handle we like. In any case, I'll set the microwave for say 30 seconds, and the pizza isn't done, so then i'll set it for another ten and it's over done! Ahh... I haven't done it where it was dried out though!

Not usually. I have a cool trick for reheating certain things in the microwave... put it in a ziplock bag. It seals in the moisture you would normally lose by microwaving it.

Unfortunately I have several times! My worst mistake was not setting the popcorn on the appropriate timing..... it not only ruins the popcorn but it makes the entire house terrible smelling. Would have to open the windows and pray that the smell gets out of the house before anyone else gets home. (Which that never happens!)

Yes I have did that also. That makes me so mad espically if I am really hungry

I melted cheese one time and set the wrong setting on it and it started to get hard, brown and crusty. eww. My husband warmed up some hamburgers one time and they were like hockey pucs. couldn't even eat them.

hi beauty queen oh yes I cooked a potato too long and it was so hard I couldnt eat it. so it ended up in the garbage. another time I cooked a burrito too long and could only eat the middle of it as the ends were so hard I couldnt even bite into them at all.I have a new oven so have to be even more careful to time things exactly.

yeah. and embarrassed as it may be, i almost always burn microwavable popcorn. then there are viands that have meat in them that ended up rock hard (even our dogs does not want to eat them). what else? soups that substantively diminished in quantity after being put into the microwave. the list goes on.

It's happened a few times. Either I misjudged the time on something that I generally don't microwave, or I was using a microwave that I wasn't used to.

I think the worse thing to overcook in the microwave is popcorn. It goes from just done to burnt in a few seconds. If you don't take it out the second it stops popping it is gone. Not only is it burnt but the whole house smells like burnt popcorn. I now stand near the microwave whenever popping popcorn to make sure it doesn't get burnt.