Place a few drops of water onto your stamp and place the envelope in your microwave for 20 seconds on medium. When it comes out, you should be able to peel the stamp right off.

Soak your sponge in water then wring it out. Put it in your microwave for 2 minutes on medium to kill up to 99 percent of germs.

Need some toasted nuts for your recipe or to snack on? Your microwave can toast them right up for you. Just put a half teaspoon of vegetable or canola oil on a plate and then pour one cup of nuts over it and spread it out over the microwave safe plate. Put the plate in your microwave for one-minute intervals and stir up your nuts in between. Continue for three to eight minutes or until your nuts become toasty.

Did someone leave the bag of chips open? Before you attempt to strangle them, place some potato chips on a paper towel and nuke them briefly. This will crisp them right up.

Rub each side of your cutting board with a slice of lemon. Stick it in your microwave for one minute on a medium setting to disinfect.

Foods that have a thick skin tend to explode in our microwaves. The workaround for this is to pierce the skin of things like potatoes, squash, and tomatoes before you put them in the microwave so that the steam escapes from them.

All out of elbow grease? You can squeeze two lemon halves into a bowl of water then drop them in the bowl. Place your bowl in your microwave for five minutes on medium heat. You should easily be able to wipe away all the gunk on in your microwave after you take the bowl out.

Beat your eggs and pour them into a mug along with some milk, cheese, salt, pepper, and whatever else you want in your scrambled eggs/omelet. Nuke for 45 seconds on medium, then take out your mug and stir it up. Put it back in for another 45 seconds and then enjoy your delicious breakfast.

Cut off the ends of your onion and put your onion in the microwave on full heat for 30 seconds. When you go to chop your onion, it won’t make you tear up.

Place your herbs on a paper plate or towel and nuke them for 30 seconds. Take out and flip them over. Keep doing this for about 2 to 4 minutes until your herbs are dry.

Don’t throw that stale bread away or feed it to the birds. You can revive your stale bread by placing a damp paper towel around it and putting it in the microwave for 10 seconds on its highest setting.

Stop painstakingly peeling your garlic. You can put a head of garlic in your microwave for 15 seconds on medium and when it comes out the skin will slide right off the cloves.

Some recipes call for beans or lentils to be soaked overnight. Nobody has time for that! Just place them in a bowl with a pinch of baking soda and submerge them in water. Place the bowl in your microwave on high for 10 minutes, then take out and let it stand for 30 to 40 minutes.

Peeling a tomato or peach can be tricky and tedious, but not if you use a microwave. Nuke it for 30 seconds on medium and let it stand for about 2 minutes. The peel should slip right off after two minutes.

To help seeds grow, sterilize your gardening soil first. Seasoned gardeners already know about this trick. Now you do too!

If your mascara is getting clumpy, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. It will become an easy to apply fluid once again. You just saved yourself a trip to the store!

Warm your fruit in the microwave for 10-20 seconds before squeezing them. Don’t overheat them. This is just to get them warm. Warming up the fruit will help them to release more juice and make your juicing more fruitful.

If your honey is more of a solid than a liquid, consider using the microwave. Put it in for long enough to heat the honey, and it will become liquid gold once again. There won’t be a crystal in sight.

Cut the foot off an old sock and sew that end closed. Fill it with rice and then sew the top closed as well. Now you’ve got an inexpensive heating pad you can use over and over.

Fish can be cooked perfectly in the microwave. Wrap your fish in microwave-safe plastic with some seasoning and cook for about 2 minutes on high.

Make a single-serving cake in your microwave in just 5 minutes using ingredients you probably already have at home.

Put away the steamer basket and cook your veggies in the microwave. Not only is it simpler to do, but it’s also better for you. You lose fewer nutrients than if you steamed or boiled the vegetables.

To get an old block of sugar soft again, moisten paper towels and place them on top of the sugar. Microwave in 30-second increments and your brown sugar will be as good as new.

Make crispy bacon in your microwave. Cover a microwave-safe dish with a few paper towels and add your bacon in a single layer. Cover the bacon with a few more paper towels and microwave it in 2-minute increments until it is crispy.

The microwave is the perfect place to set up a temporary proofer for bread dough to rise in. The sealed environment of the microwave will keep in the moisture and heat needed to the yeast to activate and the dough to rise. Heat a cup of water until it’s steaming and then put your dough in with it. Close the door and wait!

Use the microwave to warm up waxes and oils that have hardened due to low room temperature or age. Microwave your beauty product in the container for 20 seconds, and it should become easy to use again.

A microwave can itself be used to test if the container is microwave safe or not. Fill a cup that you already know to be microwave-safe with water. Place the cup of water on or in the container (do not pour the water into the container) and microwave both of them for one minute until the water starts boiling. If the container you are testing is cool to touch then it is microwave safe, if it is warm or hot, then you shouldn’t use it in the microwave.

No, you don’t need a special machine – just your microwave and a jar, and you can have a delicious cappuccino or latte whenever you would like.

To cut the grilling time of vegetables, cook them part way in the microwave before putting them on the barbecue. Heat potatoes for two minutes (prick them first), and bell peppers for one minute.

Use the microwave for any recipe (not just TV dinners) that requires for braising, poaching, or steaming. Just subtract about three-quarters of the cooking time. Remember to stir liquids often to redistribute the heat, and always take the food out a minute or two before it’s completely done since it will continue to cook.

Don’t wait for your next camping trip for this treat! Just top a graham cracker with a piece of chocolate and a marshmallow. Put it in the microwave for about 7 seconds, and you will have a little piece of heaven.

A good ratio of pasta-to-water is one cup of pasta to one quart of water for elbows, with a little bit less for spaghetti and a little bit more for penne pasta. Microwave your pasta on high for about 20 minutes.

Corn actually tastes best when it has been microwaved, rather than boiled or grilled. The microwave allows it to retain its flavor, freshness, and nutrients.

The next time you are about to break a spoon on a tub of ice cream, stop! Place the whole thing in the microwave for just a few seconds, and it will be easy to scoop.

Pour boiling water into a microwave-safe bowl with a tiny bit of white vinegar. Crack the egg into the bowl and gently pierce the yolk with a toothpick. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and microwave on full power for 30 seconds. Remove the bowl, gently turn the egg, then microwave for 20 more seconds. Voila!

Skip the baking and make your brownies in the microwave. Turn on the microwaves for 1 ½ minutes if you are making a cup of brownies or 6 minutes for a full place of the chocolaty treat.

Putting a lemon in the microwave for 1 minute makes it extra juicy. This will help you get the most juice out of the lemon when you’re cooking or baking. Works for any citrus fruit!

Coconut oil needs to be in warm temperatures to stay liquid otherwise it hardens and becomes difficult to get out of the bottle or jar. Pop the bottle in the microwave for 20-second increments until it’s liquid again.

Instead of using hot water from the tap to make a compress, speed up the process with a microwave. Just soak a hand towel in water then pop in the microwave for 1 minute. You can also re-heat gel packs using this same method.

If you get takeout or took home leftover french fries, they can become soggy and unappetizing. To keep them nice and crispy, throw them in a crisper pan and toss them in the microwave for a minute. They’ll taste like they’re fresh out of the fryer!

A parmesan cheese crisp is a delicious garnish on pastas and salads. You can easily make them using your microwave. Just grate some parmesan onto some parchment paper then microwave for 30 seconds or until it crisps up into a yummy cheese chip!

Just like we mentioned earlier for peeling garlic, the same trick works for shucking an ear of corn. Plus, the microwave will eliminate those extra strings that tend to get stuck in the kernels. Just cut the stalk off the end and microwave for 30-60 seconds. Then, grab the cob by the uncut end and give it a shake. The corn will fall right out!

You don’t have to have a steamer or frother to make delicious foam for your latte – you just need a jar and a microwave. “Pour milk into a jar, seal it, and shake it vigorously for up to a minute until it becomes foamy. Then stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds. The heat will stabilize the foam so it won’t immediately dissolve into your cappuccino,” Mental Floss says.

Microwaves aren’t just great for re-crisping potato chips, but you can also make potato chips using a microwave. Coat thin slices of potato with a bit of olive oil then spread them out in a single layer on a microwave-safe dish. Heat them for 3-5 minutes or until they become crispy. Let them cool, then snack away!

Once again – the microwave comes in handy when you want to get rid of the skin on tomatoes or peaches before cooking or baking. Put the tomato or peach on a plate and microwave until the skin starts to wrinkle. You should be able to peel the skin off easily with a fork.

If clay work or pottery is one of your hobbies, your microwave can become your very own personal kiln. You will need to purchase a kiln kit but once you own one you can fuse glass and ‘cook’ clay in just a few minutes.

Did you know you can dye yarn and wool with a little Kool-Aid and your microwave? You do now! Mix the colorful drink powder with some water and add the yarn. Microwave for a few minutes and the color will bond to the wool or yarn, which will also prevent it from fading.

If you have little ones in your household – this is a super fun project for them. Throw a bar of Ivory soap into the microwave for about two-and-a-half minutes and watch it grow in size. Soon, it will become a squishy cloud that you can mold and play with. Make sure it’s the Ivory brand or any other brand that floats in water – the extra air is what’s needed to make it work.

Just like brownies, you can make French toast in a mug too! Plus, it only takes two short minutes to cook! Head over to Sugar Stiletto Style for the recipe – it’s so easy. And yummy too!

According to Greatist, “For the pickling spice, use equal parts mustard seeds, celery seeds, and whole black peppercorns, and add a dash of turmeric and chili. Throw everything together in a jar with some vinegar, sugar, cucumbers, and onion, microwave for about 8 minutes, and voila!”