Vegetables
Mixed vegetables
A tray of several vegetables at once, which four manufacturers chart as a single row and which nothing else in this catalogue could express.
What it does in fast-moving hot air
A mixed load is a scheduling problem rather than a cooking one. The individual vegetables behave exactly as their own records describe — a carrot is dense and slow, a courgette collapses, a pepper blisters — and putting them in together means the fastest is finished before the slowest has started to soften. The published answer to that is a wide range and a note to check, which is what a manufacturer says when the honest answer is that it depends on what you put in. The practical version is to cut the dense things smaller than the soft ones, which converts a scheduling problem back into a single cooking time.
Why the cut matters
Almost nobody cooks one vegetable. The manuals recognise this and publish a generic mixed-vegetable row with a very wide time band and an explicit instruction to judge it yourself — which is more honest than it looks, and is the reason this record exists rather than being folded into the single-vegetable forms.
Cooking pages
- Mixed vegetables — Several vegetables in one basket, charted by four manufacturers with a wide band and an instruction to use your own judgement.
There is deliberately no cooking time on this page. A food does not have one — a cut, at a thickness, in a state, at a loading, in a particular appliance does. That is what the pages above are for.