It tastes exactly as you imagine microwaved pot pie crust would. Please taste the crust on the chicken pot pie I had for dinner.

Do you own a bowl? Bowls are great for mixing things in, and many.

Of that pound of beef you had to buy in order to make it. They’re impossible to clean!) I’d come to feel similarly about the microwave mug meal, a form whose annoying preparation and mediocre results in no way justify themselves. (Then he told me that I shouldn’t publish that opinion, but I maintain: the Venn diagram of people who swear by garlic presses and people who do the dishes afterwards is just two separate circles. “A garlic press?” he suggested, with not a moment’s hesitation this is real intimacy. “What’s the thing,” I asked him, “that I’m always complaining about? Like it’s a thing that people say makes things easier for you, but actually it’s just dumb?” Somewhere in the middle of this I called my boyfriend, who was visiting New York, eating whatever fancy stovetop bullshit they eat in Brooklyn. And the remaining half bagel was a great snack when I got hungry again an hour later.Ĭool tiny meat loaf, bro. During the mixing process, half the ingredients ended up on the kitchen counter-I defy you to mix chunky ingredients gracefully in a coffee cup-but they were easy enough to scoop up. Some parts came out runny, sure, while other parts caused the roof of my mouth to #FeelTheBurn, while yet other parts exploded all over the microwave as they heated. And I didn’t hate the strata, made with lox and half of an everything bagel, that I had for breakfast the following morning. The rice didn’t fit into its mug, either, but all things considered this meal tasted like one of your finer TV dinners. (Insofar as you can cook only one course at a time, microwave mug meals can definitely be thought of as slow food.) And I did better the next night with kung pao chicken and fried rice, prepared consecutively.

Shakshuka? Huevos rancheros? Farfalle with garlic and clams? Yes, yes, yes-you’ll find a recipe. According to sources aligned with Big Mug, there’s nothing you can’t do in this arena. So maybe carnival food isn't the best entree into the world of microwave mug meals, which came into being as a continuation of an earlier craze for mug cakes.

Let me tell you why that's bullshit mug