Only exceptions for using the microwave for me is ANYTHING by stouffers best microwave lasagna out there, spaghetti w/marinara based sauces, Digiornos and certain microwaveable pizza brands can work alright in a microwave.
Leftovers though? Microwaves doesn’t revive that crust as well as a conventional/toaster oven.
Left-over pizza tastes just fine straight out of the fridge. Y’all niggas need to heat up everything.
… but you’re still hungry.
Oh, my bad. Wrong creepy technology. 
Threw out my Microwave yesterday. It dawned on me that i have an oven.
Not interested in replacing all the food i eat with this but could be a good way to curve my desire snacks i guess.
“Gee, I sure do enjoy waiting at least 10 times longer to reheat the exact same meal.” - You
After reading about what it does to food, I threw out my microwave too. It certainly took some getting used to: like what @AlphaCommando implied, reheating takes longer. But the wait is worth it: I’d rather wait 4-5 times longer to turn cold food into hot food, than cold food into hot non-food.
@yah yaahh b*tch!
This is true, but most of those meal replacements aren’t created with the goal of providing all the nutrients you need daily. They are mostly for weight control and muscle gain. The only commercially sold product I can think of that comes close to Soylent in that mission is Shakeology, but they include other ingredients for flavor.
Also, the creator of Soylent has said that you should not eat this product exclusively (even though he mostly does), so eat regular food. He also said you can add what you like for flavor (even though he mostly does not), so you can make it delicious.
To me, like Shakeology, I find the idea of getting all your nutrients in one source intriguing and appealing, but it is an expensive lifestyle. The Soylent creator said he saved money from eating this way, but the math isn’t quite adding up for me…maybe if you make it yourself you can save…I’ll have to take another look…
As a bit of an aside, for those of you talking about emergency food, that stuff actually exists as real food. Look up MRE. It’s a military thing but you can get them as a civilian too. They’re not really healthy or something to eat long term, but they last a long time and can be whipped out for emergency. When I go hiking sometimes I take them with me, because I know it’s only for a few days or for just in case.
While I do think it’s good to keep a store in your house if you own one, I personally don’t and most people won’t need it in the US. Worst case scenario there will still be some sort of relief corps that comes by with food, but I don’t think that’s realistic. Water is also important to have and there is some sort of water that lasts in storage a year or longer. But in the real world it’s probably more of a pain to keep replacing it every year.
Soylent would be mostly for a health benefit if it exists and if you could rely mostly on it, with occasional meals when you have time. From everything I’ve read, and I actually wound up consulting a medical doctor, it doesn’t seem that this is viable. I normally don’t trust doctors, but for something like this it made sense to ask.
Years and years ago me and a friend were talking about the idea of removing the need to eat conventionally and just take in supplements for all the nutrients your body needs and making sure calories in lined up with calories used in a day.
Mother fucker stole 16 year old me’s idea.
Sounds like a pretty awesome idea, actually! I mean, if it really saves on the world’s resources, we’ll be saving lives in many many ways!
The future refuses to change.
Saw this and thought that this or something like this will be the future.
The way we eat WILL NOT BE SUSTAINABLE. Especially when it gets to meat. If I wanted to I can eat a steak everyday. How many animals is that in a week? Multiple that by a millions and are food supply is short.
The days of the Jetsons is not too far off.
Most people just access there current situation and think they are fine. Waiting to be fucked by the future and they know it.
The population is not sustainable, true, and as long as the US keeps allowing illegals to come in and steal resources it will eventually catch up. But the US is a rich country so that’s a ways off for most of us.
There are poor fucks all around the world who keep popping out more kids that there isn’t any food for. Look at India and the rest of South Asia. They’re all suffering from malnutrition and look terrible, but they don’t care and just keep pumping out more kids. We say it’s not sustainable but as long as you’re willing to severely lower quality of life and don’t care about the children you pump out, you can keep pushing out humans that will have shitty lives to an almost endless supply. Will giving these people Soylent actually help them any? Maybe marginally, but the population density is still going to be a matter of choice for people.
As long as the US finally figures out it makes no sense to support poor people, and restricts these people, you’ll see the food is more than sustainable with our modern technology and the space we have already. Actually food in the US could cost virtually nothing, but the government actually pays farmers to burn their crops so as to keep prices higher.
Restrict poor people? Remind me of some Anime or something where the strongest survives.
I had a convection/microwave combo oven and just used the convection function. You don’t like microwave effects, but I’m sure you like the appliance’s convenience. They cost a bit more than regular microwaves but I’d look into those.
“Gee i sure do have the patience of a knat, and like my food iradiated and unevenly heated yup yup” - You
I just microwaved this leftover pizza, and now I’m wondering if they can make a soylent that tastes like microwaved leftover pizza.