Jacket potato for lunch

[Biscuitz1]

Just really annoyed right now as someone from work believes it is perfectly appectable to put a potato for 15 mins in the microwave!

There is already a queue as it is.

“you're also getting really unnecessarily upset about a potato”

I am not upset - but I agree and take your point that I am over invested in a jacket potato I will never eat and a microwave I will never see. Fair point there.

I am killing time waiting for MRI results.

I will stand down now. I am sorry if I misquoted you.

Good luck with your results!

If that was a regular occurrence think I’d have been seriously tempted to take it back out of the microwave so I could cook mine and let her comeback to an uncooked meal😂

I cook them from raw in the microwave all the time at home and it doesn’t take anywhere near that long. Must be using a very low powered microwave!

My microwave is 800W. A large spud takes 6 minutes max.

It is unreasonable to cook a jacket potato in a microwave. The crispy skin is the whole point of a jacket potato.

Indeed. I worked with someone once who was doing some sort of body building. His lunch every day was rice and tinned tuna- which he heated up in the microwave.

One person using a single appliance many need to use for 25% of a lunch hour is ridiculous. And selfish.

I regularly have a microwave jacket potato for lunch, microwaved from raw it takes around 7 mins for an average sized potato. No longer than someone cooking a ready meal, especially if it’s a frozen one.

It should be cooked at home and re-heated. Selfish behaviour.

Egg sandwiches are just as anti social. My jacket potato takes longer than 6 mins - more like 10. Precook at home and reheat it, selfish behaviour.

Lucky you, we got 12-1 or 1-2 so there is cover if someone phones.

You absolute animal.

I’d sooner a jacket spud taking a while than sone of these foul smelling ready meals, which stink the whole place out.. 🤮

Team up with everyone else and make sure you all get in that queue first so they won’t have time to warm it up

How many microwaves for how many people?

If anyone has one at my work they usually put it in early before anyone is starting lunch, like 11:45

We only get 30 minutes for lunch (I work in a SEN school). There's probably around one third of our total staff on lunch at any given time - a 15 minute microwave hogger would be outcast!!

If we ever have jacket spuds we stick them in the oven in the home ec. kitchen anyway. Who wants a microwaved spud?!

One of our colleagues often brings fishe based dishes. She apologises when she microwaves them, usually followed by a panto style evil laugh. Stinky fish will never be the worst smell we encounter on a daily basis though.

Your office needs a second microwave

Or no microwave.

Mine take 10 minutes.

If she's putting it in the microwave and leaving it unsupervised, I'd take it out and warm up my own food. She'll soon get the message. Of course she can reheat potato. Supermarkets sell chilled mash. It's not a hazard.

"Who wants a microwaved spud?!"

Me. It's very nice and presumable better for the environment than having the oven on for an hour.

We’ve had this problem at work before too… in a school, 45min lunch. Some days six or seven people need the microwave, let’s say each meal is around 3mins… the poor sod in seventh place has to wait over half their lunch break to get their food in the microwave. And then to top it off, some days one woman brings in frozen slimming world meals that take about 12mins, it’s chaos! We’ve asked for a second microwave but have been told there’s no money on the budget for one… but every member of the leadership team has their own personal microwave in their office 🙃 some days people have knocked on their door and asked to use theirs but they make it known they aren’t happy!

Say Potato

This wouldn't be a problem in my work, we have 2 microwaves and work provide raw potato's for people to heat up. Id start my lunch after she was done.