So I'd noticed recently that the El Monterey burritos I've been eating have a horrible cooking time:eating time ratio. I attributed this to the directions specifying that a single burrito should be cooked at 375 for 20 minutes. A single burrito. For 20 minutes. Kind of ridiculous, don't you think?
So I did some experimentation with cooking them at 450. Turns out it doesn't decrease the cooking time enough to be a viable difference. It was about 16 minutes. Part of the 4-minute difference goes to the difference in preheat time, so that 4 minutes it looks like I'm saving isn't really 4 minutes.
They do have microwave directions, which I did try. Once. The burrito ended up like all other frozen burritos I've ever microwaved: soggy and with cold spots. Microwaves suck for heating frozen foods, end of story. Oven >>>>> Microwave.
A few days ago I saw Red Baron By The Slice in the freezer section. I said "hey, the best frozen pizza in existence has a way for me to enjoy it without having to buy an entire pizza? Neat!" Today I got a box. A box has two slices, both packaged in their own cardboard microwave heating tray. The microwave directions clearly indicate what wattage they were formulated on. So I followed them. They worked really well, and in a couple of minutes I had a slice of pizza.
It still suffered from the same issue heating anything frozen in the microwave suffers from: it was soggy. The cardboard tray crisped the crust a little bit, but not nearly as much as if I'd heated it up in the oven. So I looked for the oven directions. And I looked. And I looked some more. Guess what? There are no oven directions. Fail.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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