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Microwave Pasta Boat

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Microwave Pasta Boat The all-in-one tool to cook, serve and strain your pasta! Perfect pasta everytime with the Pasta Boat. Cooking pasta can be a hassle. The amazing Pasta Boat makes it faster and easier to make perfect pasta everytime right in your microwave oven. It's so easy! Just put in the pasta, add water to the serving line, then pop it in the microwave. Its that easy. Pasta Boat keeps water at the perfect temperature- it actualy does a better job than a pot on the stove. When finished, place on the strainer lid, drain out the water and you are ready to serve. The Pasta Boat is the fast and easy way to cook, drain and serve perfect pasta dishes in one microwaveable pot WITHOUT the hassle! Now you'll never fuss with boiling water or multiple pots again! You can cook, drain, serve and store meals, all in one pot. It's easy to use and makes the best pasta you'll ever taste! With a built in strainer, stay cool handles and easy measurer, your pasta comes right out of your microwave cooked to perfection. Just drain and serve. Works for vegetables too. Steamer rack can be used to steam vegetables right in your microwave. Holds up to 5lbs. Dishwasher safe. Plastic, 12 1/4 x 8 x 5 1/4". Features: Cooks, drains, serves and stores Holds 5 lbs Built in strainer lid Stay cool handles measure pasta Dishwasher safe Free Bonus steamer rack INCLUDED! Recipe book INCLUDED

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Product Details

Product Length:	12.5 inches
Product Width:	5.0 inches
Product Height:	8.38 inches
Product Weight:	1.16 pounds
Package Length:	10.9 inches
Package Width:	9.1 inches
Package Height:	5.7 inches
Package Weight:	1.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 95 reviews

Features

The all-in-one tool to cook, serve and strain your pasta!
Cooks, drains, serves and stores
Free Bonus steamer rack INCLUDED
Recipe book INCLUDED

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.5

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49 of 51 found the following review helpful:

I LOVE IT!! Oct 10, 2010 By Melanie Russell
I bought mine from CVS, and I tried it today. I live alone, and HATE to cook, but I love spaghetti. When my husband was alive, I made it often. It was too much trouble to make it just for myself.
I measured out two servings, and cooked it 13 minutes in the microwave.
The pasta came out perfect. I would highly recommend this.
Melanie

58 of 62 found the following review helpful:

It works fine for me Sep 29, 2010 By Thomas A. Pulaski
After reading online all the horror stories from people who tried to order the Pasta Boat from a TV ad and were not told of the silly outragious shipping charges till AFTER they placed the order. I went here to Amazon and got it with normal Fedex charges alittle over $3.00. It came yesterday and I tried it today with no complaints. I did stop the micro a minute short of the full time suggested just to check and it was more than enough. I made 2 servings.

51 of 62 found the following review helpful:

Creates more problems than it solves Nov 02, 2010 By A.M.Boughey "Poetmaster"
I bought this to try, as we tend to cook and eat quite a lot of pasta.
The way I see it this product is probably intended for people who (a) don't know how to cook (b) live alone (c) watch a lot of infomercials

PRO's
You can cook, strain and serve your pasta from one container, and store leftovers if you wish

CONS's
Will not cook large amounts of pasta
Takes forever in a standard microwave - 23 minutes for 2 cups of Penne!
Due to container design, bottom wells trap starch and prevent proper draining, leaving pasta stodgy
Inadequate recipe and cooking time guides for different types of pasta, and different wattage ovens.
Also cooks rice apparently, (although no measuring guide or cooking times)

Basically this was a good idea that suffers from a flawed design, little or no instructions, and long cooking times.

It takes about 11-14 minutes to boil pasta (to al dente) in a regular saucepan, drain, rinse and serve.

25 minutes in a microwave is a joke for stodgy, starchy pasta

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Best Kitchen Gadget/Microwave Cooker You'll Own! Mar 14, 2011 By Dan Kap
Before I buy anything priced much over $1 (!), I read as many Amazon reviews on it as I can. Because of a few negative reviews for factors that seemed important to me, I almost didn't order it. What a mistake that would have been! I really, really like this item. Although I've only used it to cook pasta thus far, you can steam all sorts of vegetables in it according to the brief cookbook that comes with it, using the included steamer rack. I hate vegetables, so I've never tried it. So my comments apply only to pasta. And after all, this is a pasta boat, and not a vegetable boat. The pasta comes out perfectly; I'd thought this was an item that would take some experimenting to get it right. After all, who ever heard of cooking pasta in a microwave? Following the excellent instructions in the cookbook, it worked well the very first time I tried it. And I'm as lousy and lazy a cook as they come. And I hate cooking in the first place. Which is why I love the pasta boat so much. Why? 1. It's simple to use. 2. The pasta cooks quickly, and it makes excellent pasta. 3. As the hype says, it eliminates that heavy, bulky pot that you'd normally be using. 4. It eliminates use of a colander to drain your pasta. 5. With leftovers, just stick the whole business in your frige to store your leftovers for another time. 6. And for me, the biggie: it's a cinch to clean. I hate washing stuff. I still have dirty dishes and drip pans from Thanksgiving. Maybe someone out there would like to come over and we could have a dish-washing party.

Let me address some of the complaints I recall from some of the other reviews. Some said the lifting handles got hot in the microwave. Mine get warm, but that's the worst it's been. Someone said something about the pasta clumping. Mine never has, and I've never stopped to even stir the stuff during cooking. And that really surprised me--why it doesn't clump. But it doesn't.

Improvements? The lifting handles double as clever measures for measuring out spaghetti. Each one measures for two portions. For a single guy like me, I'd like to have seen one that measures for two, and the one on the other side made of a smaller inside diameter to measure for one. I use a quarter though, and its diameter is just about right for me. And if I don't have a quarter, I use two dimes and a nickle...OK, just kidding.

This item is ideal for any single guy like me who 1. hates to cook, 2. loves pasta, 3. is lazy, 4. and hates to clean stuff. But married people, and those with families would enjoy it too. If you tell your friends about it as I have, you'll get interesting reactions--no one can conceive how you can cook pasta in a microwave. But you can. It works. And it works very well.

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Love It! Jan 15, 2011 By Tender Moon
First off, let it be said that I've always hated cooking pasta. Find the pot that's always in the far reaches of the cabinet which makes a lot of noise that traumatizes the resident cat. Boil the water and then watch it while the pasta cooks so it doesn't boil over. Then, find the colander which is also never easily accessible. The whole process was just annoying and I cooked pasta infrequently. Enter the "Pasta Boat." I had read a good review earlier in the week and figured since it was inexpensive I'd give it a try. Just finished cooking 6 servings of elbows that turned out perfectly. Read the book, follow the instructions...a no brainer. If you're cooking for ten maybe not so good, but it's wonderful for one or two people. Not a thing I'd change about it. I'm delirious with glee!

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