Best microwave container: cereal bowl + bread plate

[deirdra]

I've been nuking things in my Corelle bowls and using plastic wrap or wax paper to contain spatters when it hit me - cover it with a useless old bread plate! For larger portions I use the large bowl and a dinner plate. Things cook and reheat faster and stay moister, and you don't create any garbage or need to worry about de-gassing plastics.

Since I have been gluten-free for a year, those dishes had been gathering dust!

[shulameet]

Dear Deirdra,
I try not to use any kind of plastic in hte microwave, not even plastic dishes. I trawl through yard sales and thrift shops for oven proof ceramic, glass and pyrex containers and dishes that I use in the microwave. I love Corningware Visions cookware because they can be used on the stove or pyrex because it goes in the oven. These give me double duty.

[Inez]

I'm cheap, so I try using as little plastic wrap as possible! Occasionally the dishwasher is too full so I'll use plastic wrap instead of a plate in the microwave -- I don't like it half as much. The plastic wrap melts and clings and generally makes a mess, especially when you try to put it back over the bowl. The plate doesn't fit tightly and so allows some venting so you don't get that burst of steam that you do when you pull off the plastic wrap.