The problem with the idea of cooking in a microwave for one person isn’t the word “microwave,” but the idea of ”for one person.” I live alone, and cooking is generally a pretty bad idea anyway. It’s a little cheaper, but the balance is generally in favor of prepared meals or cafes. In the USSR, there were even plans for apartments without kitchens. This concept largely failed due to the catastrophically low quality of public catering in the USSR. If you have a family, you need a full kitchen. If you live alone for a decade, ideally you’d have good cafeterias near your home that are frequented by more than just poor workers. In fact, this has been resolved by the availability of decent prepared meals in supermarkets. Overall, if the cheapest accommodations weren’t hostels or dormitories with a shared full kitchen, but rather micro-apartments with only a microwave, cooking in them would make sense, as it would save even more compared to cafeterias.
The problem with the idea of cooking in a microwave for one person isn’t the word “microwave,” but the idea of ”for one person.” I live alone, and cooking is generally a pretty bad idea anyway. It’s a little cheaper, but the balance is generally in favor of prepared meals or cafes. In the USSR, there were even plans for apartments without kitchens. This concept largely failed due to the catastrophically low quality of public catering in the USSR. If you have a family, you need a full kitchen. If you live alone for a decade, ideally you’d have good cafeterias near your home that are frequented by more than just poor workers. In fact, this has been resolved by the availability of decent prepared meals in supermarkets. Overall, if the cheapest accommodations weren’t hostels or dormitories with a shared full kitchen, but rather micro-apartments with only a microwave, cooking in them would make sense, as it would save even more compared to cafeterias.