I was also thinking about oven cooking in microwave ovens and conventional ovens. I was thinking how the stoneware cooking bowl I use works well in both. I cook most of my food in clay jars with Pyrex glass lids. My cooking is very simple fast and cheap. I heat the food up then I add something to it to make it taste nice like 'peri peri lemon and herb sauce' or gravy. I toast frozen slices of bread from a frozen loaf that was reduced to 20p and add marmalade to the toast. That is what being Alan is all about, being very boring to most people and feeling fine with being labelled boring or dull by the majority.