This is so good, I made it twice this weekend! Peanut craving I guess.
A large glass measuring cup made the job easy. I know that different microwaves can do different things depending on the wattage, so I searched around online to find cooking times that matched my microwave (mine is 1100 watts and required less time in the first 2 steps - I didn't want to risk burning it).
I just poured it onto a sheet of parchment paper and helped it spread with a non-stick sprayed spatula. Yum! I wish I could have tried it with pecans but I just don't have any right now.
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I dropped by Julia's house last night and had a sampling of this peanut brittle--it actually has been quite a few years since I tasted this when Carissa first started making it--so I was reminded how good it is. And compared to the old fashioned way of cooking on the stove with a candy thermometer, this microwave version is great! Thanks, Julia, for telling us the microwave wattage--now I need to know how to find out my own microwave wattage...hmmm, I am not the engineer Julia is, but maybe a laymen like me can find it...we will see...
Okay, fine... the thought occurred to me but the mom side took over the engineer side (this started happening 4 years ago actually) and I didn't let myself think about it. But here you go, my rough estimate:
700W - 10 minute total cook time
800W - 9
900W - 8
1000W - 7
1100W - 6
Now you have to readjust the times for each step.. my steps were 2.5, 2, 1.5 minutes respectively. Really, how can you pass up 6 minute peanut brittle??
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