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Not a shill but Trader Joe's makes some good microwave meals. The Indian dishes are good, dumplings/soup dumplings are good.

>>21912461
Physics is a problem but so are economics and competing technologies.
You're not beating dehydrated noodles in terms of speed, frozen pizza/lasagna in terms of portion size or air fryer fare in terms of crispiness.
That really narrows what you can do while remaining cheap.

A good meal has a variety of tastes and textures that a microwave cant do.
For example, you can use the microwave to cook a burger, but you're gonna want the bread and the vegetables on top to be fresh.

Uh oh melty

>>21912461
because microwaves are a pointless invention.

>>21912839
If someone could make good tasting microwave meals, they would become an instant success and change the world. It’s the most convenient way to cook something but microwave food never became mainstream because of how bad it tastes.I mean it only loses to junk food specifically because it tastes bad to the point where people would rather pay exorbitant prices than eat a a Hungry-Man.

>>21912839
So is the internet yet here we are.

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>>21912461
decency is expensive, and you "people" will settle for far less than even basic adequacy
there's no reason to improve and every reason to do worse

>>21912461
>microwaved food never became the norm anywhere.
You are basing this on nothing at all and showing your biased ignorance.

Because they were enshittified. A lot of the frozen meals I used to like as a kid are smaller and made with cheaper ingredients. In a way they are staying competitive with fast food because fast food did the same thing.

>>21912461
Microwaves vibrate (heat) water molecules. They are only useful for things you would boil or steam. This is a very limited variety of foods.

>>21913100
Why not make pretty good dumplings then? I mean they have to be steamed anyways.

>>21912474
Does Tarde Joe's actually make these?
I'd assume some other company makes them for Joe and they just slap on the branding

>>21914364
supermarkets generally don't own food production plants. food production plants are contracted to make food for large companies. although in some cases they own the building but they pay another company to take control of the building and bring their own workers in to run the building. it's kind of a messy system. if you contact trader Joe's they will tell you where they're made since it's not really a secret it's just something they don't advertise.