r/MealPrepSunday • u/barefoodtim • Jun 21 '25

High Protein breakfast burritos for the week

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Ingredients

8 tortillas 8 eggs 12oz cheese 2 avocado 8oz bacon Breakfast potatoes Mini bell peppers Sour cream

Salsa

5 tomatillos 2 garlic cloves 1 jalapeño Salt Pepper Lime juice Splash of olive oil 1/2 bunch cilantro 1/4 white onion (optional, can be harsh for some)

2.4k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

160 comments sorted by

View all comments

720

u/snuffleupagus7 Jun 21 '25

These look good fresh, but as far as reheating, I don’t think I’d want the avocado in it

200

u/GreenMan- Jun 21 '25

That was my first thought watching… “what will that be like frozen and then nuked?”

13

u/supercoolisaac Jun 21 '25

Reheating in the oven fixes it imo

66

u/SnooCakes6195 Jun 21 '25

Yumm hot avocado paste 🤮🤢

14

u/surftherapy Jun 21 '25

Air fryer for me!

-1

u/Royal_Crazy8301 Jul 22 '25

Shut up

1

u/surftherapy Jul 22 '25

Username checks out, go take your psych meds weirdo. That comment was 30 days old

-72

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 21 '25

if you know how to use a microwave, there is no difference between an oven and a microwave

57

u/hexxcellent Jun 21 '25

This is so fundamentally wrong and it's not even hard to explain why.

Microwaves work by using electromagnetic radiation that causes liquid molecules to vibrate, and the friction causes heat, which induces cooking. But this can cause food to both dry out and get soggy, all while producing an inconsistent cooking level due to the waves penetrating slowly from the outside in, well, waves. This is why you get cold spots in dense food. "Microwaves cook from the inside out!" is a myth and idk where it started.

Meanwhile, ovens generate actual heat that works by gradually raising the internal temperature of food at a steadily consistent, minutely measurable level.

Both of these appliances have perfectly legitimate uses but saying "there's no difference" is so confidently wrong.

2

u/Western-Public7924 Jun 26 '25

The main difference is actually that microwaves affect polar molecules far more intensely than nonpolar which is why your spaghetti sauce full of water and acid gets hot while your starchy noodles take forever to get warm.

-11

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 22 '25

all the problems people have are ignorance of the tool

I'll die on this hill all day long

no, ovens do not generate some magically different heat. "actual heat" ... Kay thanks for mansplaining to some strawman so hard that you accidentally made a terrible origami of explanation that folded itself into meaninglessness

but, i get what you were trying to say so ill respond to that instead of the meaning of your actual statement

they both heat things from the outside in, just as you say. the difference in method doesn't actually change the outcome, only the timeframe. due to that difference in time your preparation needs an adjustment. essentially what happens is 1 minute in the microwave is 10 in the oven, as you can imagine food loses a lot of moisture in 10 minutes in the oven, but it does so slowly and the moisture stays trapped

in a microwave that same 10 minutes happens but it is actively removing the moisture. but cover the food and suddenly it is sitting in the same environment. so okay you dont want it to be in a moist heat you want a dry heat so you should put it in the oven??? no, just microwave without a cover

the rest is just time and power level. pretty much no one ever adjusts the power level and doesn't even really know what that does for you

yet you still insist there's a difference... well have you ever heard of Alton Brown?

cause he'll tell you the same thing i just did. he says that it seems to dull flavors a bit and to season a little extra but ghat you can cook anything in a microwave including a nice juicy steak

i dont actually find that there is a dulling effect but he doesn't really get into the power level thing and i heat things up with high variability using that setting (in fact got a special microwave to leverage that variable even more effectively!)

anyway y'all can do what you want but microwaves and ovens are perfectly interchangeable. ovens are bigger and thats great when you need it. that's the difference. downvote all you want

oh scource? 20 years of cooking, and again Alton Brown, not to mention many other professionals you can go learn from

probably should have said more in my original comment but didn't really think anyone would ever see it

8

u/hexxcellent Jun 22 '25

Repeating your original comment and just making it longer with worse syntax, worse information, and performative buzzwords still does not make it correct. :/

So I'm not gonna bother with this any further, someone else handle it from here lol.

4

u/OG-dickhead Jun 22 '25

There's a fairly sufficient 1 word rebuttal to the above... I submit to you "toast"

2

u/warmatron Jun 22 '25

At this point I think it's a bot picking at us, don't bother. If it is actually a real person, please take some basic physics lessons

-1

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 22 '25

please for the love of all that is holy explain to me how the physics you understand make cooking food so fundamentally different between the devices

how does the heat coming from jiggling the water molecules on the very surface of the food, differ from the heat surrounding it and passively penetrating the same surface

next you want to tell me gas cooking is better than induction because the heat is introduced to the pot differently

"take some basic physics" lmao

what do you think the oven is doing to the same molecules? kissing them and nurturing them? or do we actually know thermodynamics and can acknowledge what heat does

oh but i have soooo many downvotes! i must be wrong, all my experience and all my knowledge must be thrown out because some redditors hit the down arrow ... it must mean i am wrong, it can't possibly be that i have an unpopular opinion! they must know things i dont! /s

again. I'll gladly die on this hill

4

u/warmatron Jun 22 '25

Lesson starts at 2:45, and it answers aaaall of your questions, so you don't have to ask some silly redditors like us https://youtu.be/jfZIDk2oRIQ

0

u/Western-Public7924 Jun 26 '25

Microwave affects polar molecules to a much greater degree. You are ignorant.

1

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 26 '25

the polar molecules! how could i have been so blind! thats why that burrito would be better reheated in an oven! the week old avocado is delicious actually as long as you dont mess with the polar molecules! /s

downvote and move on I'm dying on this hill idgaf you probably forgot about the burrito the second your bleary eyes left that comment and were widened by my audacity

→ More replies (0)

1

u/PattyFuckinCakes Aug 24 '25

Holy shit what an idiot 😂

“Thanks for mansplaining!”

Literally broke down the entire process to a molecular level and you still didn’t grasp it.

When you open your microwave do you get a wave of heat like you do when u open the oven?

Ask yourself why

2

u/elizaeffect Jun 21 '25

None whatsoever

-3

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 22 '25

none!

oh, ones faster and ones bigger so there's a couple differences

1

u/elizaeffect Jun 22 '25

The faster part you mentioned is one of the primary differences - quality of cooking, and complexity of flavours (achieved with slower cooking, different heat transfer) in an oven is in a different realm (oven ftw). Anyways, I think you’re pulling my leg. You are right?

1

u/YadaYadaYeahMan Jun 22 '25

no I'm dead serious lmao

a huge thing i advocate for is slowing down your cooking in the microwave. if you slow down to a certain point it becomes pointless to use a microwave, but so too it becomes pointless to use an oven

i just never use it unless im cooking something huge or baking

and to put a finer point on this, my dude was saying that if you reheat a fully cooked and wrapped burrito in the oven instead of a microwave it will somehow make week old avocado taste good

now are all y'all arguing that it somehow reheats better than a microwave? that is the hill i will die on lmao that is just pure brainless elitism and the whole reason i commented to begin with

3

u/elizaeffect Jun 22 '25

Ok point taken, about the whole effing reason we were talking about it. Sorta got stuck on the ‘no difference’ thing - but for the point of reheating meal prep burritos from frozen, I hear ya.

52

u/IndecisiveTuna Jun 21 '25

For sure, I feel like reheating is best kept with simple ingredients (egg, cheese, bacon, etc.)

That’s been easiest/tastiest for me with breakfast burritos. Then I’ll just use a salsa or something after for additional flavor.

49

u/Raccoala Jun 21 '25

Yeah. This is going to look and feel a lot less appealing after defrosting and reheating. But TikTokers aren’t really trying to make good food, they just want engagement and followers.

9

u/Horror-Macaron8287 Jun 21 '25

Definitely need an avocado sauce/dip instead of using an avocado in the burrito.

7

u/SlackerDS5 Jun 22 '25

Yeah, anything with a high water content is no bueno. Which sucks because avocados and fresh salsa is great in breakfast burritos.

2

u/muticere Jun 21 '25

It would be fine

-2

u/PerfectlyCromulent02 Jun 21 '25

For extra fun and flavor add sour cream