On 03-Oct-08, at 8:35 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some of my friends used to make reasonably good idlis in microwaveable egg poachers... Not as good as the idli cooker, but not bad.
I cook my idlis in the microwave every time, even though I have the more traditional apparatus. I have a microwave safe set of idli dies, though egg poachers should do in a pinch. They turn out every bit as good as in an idli cooker, actually even better, and faster - just takes 2 minutes to cook.
FWIW, my microwave has an idli option, but you should be able to figure out the power settings after a couple of tries on any machine.
Cheeni
