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If you're making the restaurant comparison, look at how many restaurants now just order everything premade from Sysco and "cook" it with a TurboChef™ convection-oven-microwave.

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Fairly sure convection ovens aren't microwaves. They use a standard resistive heater and a fan, totally different physics for heating.

it's a product of its own.

https://www.amazon.com/TurboChef-Electric-Countertop-Microwa...

Modern microwaves are multi-modal. https://www.thekitchn.com/what-is-a-convection-microwave-goo...

Irrelevant. They are not the original microwaves sold as the solution to cooking and the way they work is totally different. And even with convection, they still haven't "solved" cooking.

On the contrary; the original microwaves are irrelevant. Restaurants are businesses, using whatever new appliance will help them. Furthermore, the poster never claimed microwaves 'solved' anything.

Since we know people in 2026 have short attentions spans, this is where the discussion started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060914

I was agreeing with OP against automation absolutists, which are rampant here.

Some don't even bother to use more than a conventional microwave, which I've sometimes just sent back and asked for a refund.

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