5 Best Microwave Cookbooks (Reviews Updated 2022)

If you are always short of time or find cooking to be a non-productive task, you need a microwave cookbook. Inspiring you to cook simple, nutritious meals, microwave cookbooks have so much more value to offer to you than just recipes. A microwave cookbook makes your task of cooking food much easier. Any cooking style like sautéing, broiling, or grilling is turned into an easy task as the microwave timer keeps an eye out for the food in the microwave.

Well, if you are thinking of one, do read our in-depth reviews of the five best microwave cookbooks. For your ease, we have studied each one in-depth to present to you an unbiased review. Take a few minutes to read the reviews and choose one that best suits your needs.

Best Microwave Cookbooks

Image	Best Microwave Cookbooks	Rating
	1. A Meal in a Mug	99%
	2. A Man, a Can, a Microwave	96%
	3. 250 Best Meals in a Mug	92%
	4. Microwave Cooking Times at a Glance	89%
	5. The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Microwave Cookbook	85%

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Here are our best microwave cookbooks’ reviews:

1. A Meal in a Mug by Denise S

Filled with food tips and facts and over eighty fast-to-cook recipes, Denise has authored one of the slimmest cookbooks. This cookbook is apt for meals for a single person, whether in a dorm or at an office or someone who is in a hurry or perhaps just doesn’t want to cook. Denise has conjured up and done a rejig of some simple and well-known food dishes to suit every palate.

No take-outs, no instant food, or processed food.  All the meals in this cookbook are cooked for a delicious, simple serving.  Some users find the portion sizes to be small for one person; they augment the food with an extra side dish, salad, fruit, or a shake.

There are no great mechanics to these recipes; they are just something you would do in a home kitchen. You can easily double these recipes if you are a couple or two office colleagues for lunch. These eighty recipes are nutritious, flavorful, and colorful. They do not require much cooking time.

For many food connoisseurs, the cookbook is helping save food wastage with limited portions being cooked. You don’t have to eat the same food cooked in large quantities and frozen and reheated. Its fresh food cooked each time, every time.

Why do we like it?

• Reduces food wastage
• Fresh food in minutes
• Portions suitable for a single-serve

2. A Man, a Can, a Microwave by David J.

This cookbook is leaner than anyone could think. This board book is a power-packed recipe storehouse for all your energy needs throughout the day in just forty-six pages. Many users have found the recipes given in the book as flavourful and easy with simple, streamlined, and smart instructions, making a man’s job easier in the kitchen.

Say no to instant food and take-outs. Most recipes are easy to cook with cans of packaged ingredients easily available in your pantry or any local grocery store. This cookbook is aimed at the male population. But then it is not restricted to anyone who is living alone or couples who are recently married. For two folks, double the ingredients and keep an eye out for the timer.

David’s narration in the book is easy to follow and is just like speaking to a novice/newbie to microwave cooking. Most items are your everyday pantry items. There is not much to hunt for in terms of ingredients.

Many folks find the Teriyaki beef with broccoli and the painless paella amazing dishes to go for!  Instructions are simple to follow once you have the ingredients listed and shopped. While all the main ingredients are listed, some users found the other ingredients are given in a smaller font, making reading them difficult.

This book is bound in thick pages that are easy to clean with a damp cloth. Full-color photos accompany the dishes to give you a vision of what has to be prepared!

Why do we like it?

• Easy to follow instructions
• Uses everyday ingredients from your kitchen
• Single-serve portions

3. 250 Best Meals in a Mug by C.Saulsbury

With popularity gaining and families growing into nuclear ones, the demand for microwave cookery has only increased over the years. People at large have turned cautious of how they eat food, how it is cooked, and what nutritional values it provides them with.

Perfect recipes for the singles living alone in a house or a university dorm; these recipes are economical, offer alternatives to choose from during the week. You don’t have to cook and create large batches to be used over and over again.

Many users find this cookbook helpful as it made them less guilty of wasting food as you cook in a single-serve or portions of two.  Most folks who are using this cookbook prefer to have choices of food, depending upon what is available in the fridge, and quickly stepping out for a fresh vegetable/freshly filleted fish to go with.

Providing you a refreshing break, these recipes don’t become the task itself. Take some time off the tasks to refresh and cook yourself a healthy meal with this cookbook.

Why do we like it?

• Easy to cook home recipes
• Cooking is done and dusted within ten minutes or less
• Recipes have everyday ingredients and allow for substitution

4. Microwave Cooking Times at a Glance: An A-Z by A. Yates

Offering you perfect cooking times for steamed vegetables or fish, Yates’ cookbook is helpful to those who are new to microwave cooking. Most users like the fact that the recipes are easy to follow and are indexed to find a dish easily. Yates has shared cooking times for different microwaves depending upon their wattage and what is being cooked. Yates is a pro as she suggests recipes by weight and different cuts of meat. All microwaves up to the known norm of 1000 watts benefit from this cookbook.

Since this cookbook is for beginners, Yates introduces the reader to preparing and cooking different types of food in microwaves. Filled with tips and hints on cooking, Yates’s narration tempts you to try out some of the dishes now.

Many folks have admired her logical representation of recipes which doesn’t require them to go through a maze of things, keeping it simple and predictable. Most recipes have timings given for single portions, too; Yates does not miss out on a singleton’s need.

For the users, it requires them to know their microwaves well enough to go with the flow of the cookbook, using power jargons and then giving it a simple everyday common word.

Why do we like it?

• Simple and logically indexed
• For beginners to microwave cookery
• Timings given for single-serve portions too

5. The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Microwave Cookbook by Joyce AK

Filled with simple and easy-to-follow instructions, Joyce’s cookbook is a welcome change from The Good Housekeeping. Joyce provides more than fifty recipes, shows you what drinks go with what food and has menus for most occasions. She provides time charts for all recipes and the nutritional food value in a standard recipe.

A few critics have emphasized the need for recipes that can be managed in today’s modern technology with higher-powered microwaves, unlike the 700 watts of previous decades. For users living in the hot and temperate zones, this cookbook, they say, is a blessing. For example, a user from southern California despises the kitchen’s heat during summers, where cooking is considered a pain.  She loves this cookbook with its capacity to cook small and fast batches of nutritious food that doesn’t add heat to the already heated up kitchen.

Offering you more than four hundred pages of big glossy pages filled with recipes and a collection of pictures/illustrations makes you feel hungry instantly.

Why do we like it?

• Pictures and illustrations throughout the book
• Easily indexed
• Loads of variety; more than 500 recipes