ready mixed or ready cooked food
Which is more frequently used ready or ready cooked food?
We pop food in or into a microwave? Do we say microwave or microwave oven? What about the verb "to microwave"? Is it used a lot? What would "microwaveable or microwavable" mean? Food that we cook in a microwave?
Re: ready mixed or ready cooked food
The shorter forms are more common; you can say microwave oven, but dropping oven is very common. The verb is used a lot, in BrE at least. If something is microwavable, you can microwave it.
Re: ready mixed or ready cooked food
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The shorter forms are more common; you can say microwave oven, but dropping oven is very common. The verb is used a lot, in BrE at least. If something is microwavable, you can microwave it.
What about AmE?
Re: ready mixed or ready cooked food
- we pop food in(to) a microwave
- microwave / microwave oven
- the verb "microwave" is used a lot
- microwavable: food that can be microwaved