True story. My office occupies a building which I share with a few other folks, one of whom has donated an old microwave oven for our common benefit. The microwave oven is *quite* old, however, and it takes six minutes to properly heat up a can of soup that would otherwise take only three minutes.

I brought in a frozen dinner for my lunch today; one of those biiig frozen dinners that takes something like ten minutes to nuke in a *good* microwave oven*. I wonder... am I going to have to microwave this meal for twenty minutes before I can eat it? At what point do you say that a microwave oven is really not speeding up the cooking process at all?

It's very hot outside today. Maybe I'll just cook my HungryPerson dinner on the sidewalk....