Did you ever take a second to read the cooking instructions on the side of a frozen burrito? Basically, it says “Microwave on high for 2 ½ to 3 minutes.” That sounds simple enough. I can do that. Or, it gives you alternate oven cooking instructions “Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 25 minutes. Let stand for five minutes. Eat.”
Ok, I don’t know about you but my oven takes at least ten minutes to heat up to 350 degrees. If you follow the oven directions, it’s going to be a good hour until you can eat that crap-tasting tube of wood chips and dirt. An hour investment for the least-rewarding experience you’ll ever have outside of Taco Bell. Or, you can go the microwave route and be cooked, full, and in the bathroom, all in under ten minutes.
Has anyone really ever bothered to invest the time and effort it would take to cook a frozen burrito conventionally? Analyze who really eats frozen burritos… stoners and bachelors. (Many times this is one and the same person). I don’t know about you but this target demographic hardly knows how to turn the oven on, let alone cook something beside a pizza in it. My guess, if they left the oven cooking instructions off of the packaging all together, no one would miss them.
