Almost all the cooking I do are using microwave. While they are not bad, there are certain critical steps microwave cannot do. For example enrich the flavor of garlic and other spices in hot cooking oil. I found microwave is not good at heating vegetable oil and the garlic is more like boiling in lukewarm oil instead of frying. Also it heats food inside out equally as compared to stove which transmit heat from the out layer to inside, as result the food have different textures.