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I would say today's frozen food is better than the old frozen "TV dinners" we had back then. I always thought the microwave enabled the quality in today's frozen foods? IDK.

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I think microwave won out because it was quicker. That said many frozen foods have both oven and microwave instructions and almost universally I find oven tastes better

Actually, I can’t think of a single item that tastes better reheated in the microwave than an oven.

I just recently got an Anova Precision Oven (which has steam injection in addition to otherwise just being a really good and consistent convection oven) and literally everything I reheat now just tastes fantastic.

I imagine foods that need a lot of moisture content are probably better with the microwave, those trays probably wouldn't seal well and you could lose a lot of moisture in the 30min or so it probably takes to reheat from frozen. But in the other direction it seems foods that are crispier usually aren't great in the microwave in comparison.

But IME even with a good microwave a lot of frozen meals tend to reheat somewhat unevenly with the default directions even with a rotating tray. I do admit I've never used a microwave where the magnetron moves though.

I don’t see why they couldn’t do a sealed aluminum top. I remember they used to do that for frozen lasagna.

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