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It’s also somewhat safer to cook bacon in the microwave than on the stove, particularly if it’s rolly.In rough conditions, many cruisers love being able to “bake” potatoes in the microwave - it’s easy, you can often use the microwave when it’s too rough for the stove, and potatoes are good even if you’re mildly seasick.It’s also a lot safer to melt butter on a gimballed stove than to risk hot oil sloshing in the microwave.Water actually boils faster in a teakettle on the stove, and if you’re on passage or in a rolly anchorage, it’s safer as it’s less likely to splash on you than in an open container in the microwave.Unless you have a large freezer, you’re not likely to have a lot of frozen meals to just heat in the microwave (few anchorages have a store where you can just pick up something to heat up).The difference comes when you’re away from the dock - there are both pluses and minuses: If you’re working (or working on the boat as opposed to cruising) and the boat is at the dock, you may find that your lifestyle is very similar on the boat to ashore and your usage is about the same - heating up meals, cooking bacon and baked potatoes, melting butter, boiling water and so on. Your microwave usage ashore may or may not be a good indicator of how much you’ll use it on the boat. You’ll have to make sure that you can get power to the intended location and engineer a tie-down system to make sure that the microwave won’t go flying in rough conditions. Space is probably the simplest consideration and is simply a matter of whether you’re willing to give up space for something else (equipment or just storage) in order to have the microwave. In deciding whether you want a microwave, there are basically three things to consider:

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