In my experience, the only thing I ‘cook’ in a microwave is popcorn. Ultimately, the massive device is just an appliance I use for heating… not cooking – but a clever hack could change things radically. The RANGEMATE is a fairly one-of-a-kind cooking utensil that turns your microwave into a grill. It converts microwaves into infrared heat waves, which in turn changes the way food is cooked inside the microwave. Instead of having your food cook unevenly, and often in ways that feels inedible, the RANGEMATE grills your food the way an oven or a BBQ would, but without any of the preheating, and at those blitzing microwave speeds!
Before you go yucking anybody’s yum, it’s worth noting that a lot of people own microwaves but don’t have space for ovens or those massive outdoor grills. Sure, you could cook food on your stovetop too, but chances are your stovetop won’t hit roaring temperatures of 750°F or 400°C, often required for grilling meats and getting those delicious burnt ends that pack so much flavor. A microwave is purely convenient – the RANGEMATE makes it a bona fide cooking device too, allowing you to use it for more than just reheating leftovers. It lets you cook great meals, while letting you also cook faster too – just the way most microwaves promised.
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Think of the RANGEMATE as a dutch oven or crock pot of sorts, but designed using microwave-safe materials, and designed to turn microwave radiation into actual heat that cooks your food the traditional way. The engineering behind it is just simply genius. Your food sits inside the RANGEMATE, enclosed by a lid that prevents microwaves from hitting the food directly. Instead, a heating plate underneath the food absorbs the microwaves instead, and heats up to temperatures as high as 750°F to cook your food directly. You know how you use aluminum foil in an oven to evenly distribute (or block) direct heat from the heat source? Think of this as the opposite. The RANGEMATE prevents the microwave from directly heating your food – instead, it channels the heat to a plate that cooks your food the old-fashioned way.
The RANGEMATE’s design looks like a flat-ish Dutch oven, but its construction is far smarter. The lid is made from microwave-blocking materials that prevent the electromagnetic waves from hitting the food directly. It sits on a base made from SPS, a microwave-safe kitchen-grade material that’s easy to maintain and remains cool to the touch, so you can grab the RANGEMATE’s handles safely while removing it from the microwave. Inside, a patented heating plate turns microwaves into infrared waves, heating up to those ripping hot temperatures you’d get from a proper oven or grill. The plate transfers the heat to a non-stick grill pan, which cooks your food. A silicone ring creates a seal between the container and the lid, enclosing the food to lock in moisture, prevent oil splashes, and also contain the heat so that food cooks through and through. Meanwhile, a safety valve at the bottom lets any pressurized vapor out just in case your food is gravy/sauce-based.
Why choose a RANGEMATE? The obvious answer is speed. Microwaves work without requiring pre-heating, although the big caveat is that they heat food by exciting moisture particles. That means food cooks unevenly, resulting in food that’s cooked on the inside but cold on the outside. Not ideal, although the RANGEMATE sidesteps that issue entirely. It uses the speed of the microwave to rapidly heat itself up, which then in turn cooks your food. This also means you can add food right from the freezer instead of defrosting it – the microwave oven’s rapid speed cuts defrosting and cooking times down by several minutes, giving you convenience but also a well-cooked meal that doesn’t feel like something you’d cobble together in your dorm towards the end of the month.
The only real downside is that the RANGEMATE is only made for your microwave oven. You can’t use it in your regular oven, or on a stovetop, induction cooker, or an outdoor grill. It’s fairly specialized in that regard, but it makes up for that by being versatile within its set of circumstances. You can use it to fry eggs, grill steaks, cook veggies… heck, at 400°C you could even make yourself a proper pizza right inside your microwave – and I don’t mean simply reheating that frozen pizza from Costco.
The SBS handles are cool to touch, which means you can easily take the RANGEMATE out of the microwave without worrying about the utensil being fiery hot. Just don’t touch the inner grill plate because chances are that’ll still be at searing temperatures. You can eat directly from the RANGEMATE if you want – it’s designed to look just as good on the dining table as it is in your kitchen rack… and after-meal clean-up is easy – the entire thing goes right in the dishwasher, or an even be rinsed under tap water.
So who’s the RANGEMATE for? If you consider yourself a culinary enthusiast and you have a fully decked kitchen and patio, the RANGEMATE isn’t for you. It’s for people who want to make the most of their tiny kitchens, whether it’s at a dorm, a rented apartment, or even your RV. The RANGEMATE works in a pinch if you have time constraints too, giving you the benefit of instant cooking without waiting 10 minutes to preheat anything.
The RANGEMATE measures a little over 11.2 inches wide (including the handle), 9.2 inches deep, 4.3 inches tall, so it should fit into most standard-size microwaves. The utensil comes in 3 color variants, and also ships with a user-guide and recipe booklet in the box, and a 1-year warranty on the product itself. The RANGEMATE starts at $89, ships globally (free shipping for USA), and is set to deliver starting February 2026.
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