I Tried To Bake.

Being on a diet for the first time sure can be boring when it comes to food choices. Even though I'm not a picky eater, I am definitely urged to try to cook or bake new things other than my favourite Korean Ramen. And so I decided to experiment on baking oat bran treats. My dad brought home a microwave oven a couple years ago, but my mum refuses to learn to use it and wouldn't allow us to go neat it, because she's paranoid about radioactive waves harming us and all. But then I found out that I could bake and grill with the model my dad brought home! Muahahaha! I unleashed the metal beast from its box and got to pressing around on the buttons.

Experiment 1

Cocoa Oat Bran cookie from a recipe I found online, takes only 1 minutes to cook on high in the microwave oven. I don't really have any microwave safe plates and stuff, but my colleague told me that almost all glass and stuff are safe. Well looks like the plate I'm using is safe for the oven.

Verdict? My cookie was too soft for my liking, it tasted like a cookie shaped brownie, I'll cook it a little longer next time.

Experiment 2

Cocoa Oat Bran muffin, following Nora's recipe. I used a little microwave safe container that I had to hold the muffin mix, it was a bit too shallow and my muffin morphed into a weird looking mushroom. Also I over cooked it, it was meant to cook for only 3.5 minutes, but I set it to 3 minutes and 50 seconds! Oh my goodness my muffin was as hard as a biscuit!

Trial and error for someone who doesn't really cook or bake. I'll do better next round :P