Microwave Cookware, Steamers, and Bacon Grills - Microwave Tools that turn the box in the corner into an actual appliance.

Your microwave has been criminally underemployed. Reheating coffee and avenging leftover pizza? That's an internship. With the right tools, it steams vegetables, cooks rice, poaches eggs, and yes - makes legitimately crispy bacon.

Bonus science: because microwave cooking uses less water and less time, steamed veggies can actually hold onto MORE of their nutrients than boiling. The lazy method is the healthy method. We checked.

Wave hello to dinner in minutes:

• Bacon without the splatter warzone: the microwave bacon grill cooks up to 6 strips at once on a raised rack, which means the bacon crisps ABOVE the grease instead of frying in it. No pan, no stovetop burns, no cleanup saga.
• Steamed dinner, zero pots: the fish and veggie steamer holds a quart with an adjustable steam vent, and the mini steamer handles 2-cup portions for the solo chef. Broccoli in 4 minutes flat.
• Carb loaders rejoice: the rice and pasta cooker set makes up to 8 cups of cooked rice or pasta without a rolling boil to babysit. Dorm rooms, RVs, and busy Tuesdays, this one's for you.
• Egg magic: the 4-in-1 egg cooker does poached, scrambled, egg cups, or a breakfast-sandwich patty. Faster than the drive-through line and you can wear pajamas.
• End the paper towel tent era: the collapsible food cover stops splatter, vents steam, collapses flat for storage, and doubles as a colander. The multi-mat is its overachieving cousin: cover, trivet, splatter guard, jar opener, and utensil rest in one slab of silicone.

Be brave. Try the microwave.

Kooi Housewares is a real kitchen store in Muskegon, Michigan, and we'll happily defend microwave cooking to any cast iron purist who wanders in. (We sell them skillets too. We contain multitudes.) Every tool here is BPA-free and built by Progressive, a brand that's been solving kitchen problems for decades.

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