The invention concerns fat frying methods and a microwave oven kit that provide, as desired, the results top-of-the-range-frying, oven baking, oven broiling, barbequing and conventional deep fat frying. The kit includes a metal, microwave browning pan, a microwave permeable cover and a microwave reflective cover. The methods concern utilizing preselected amounts of oil and different kit configurations to enhance the preparation of pizza pies, fruit pies, coffee beans, soy beans, cakes, bread, bagels, rolls, tortillas, matzos, noodles, steaks, chops, spare ribs, popcorn and frozen convenience TV dinners as well as fried chicken, fish sticks, potato chips, and French fried potatoes. This invention adds to the microwaving and then conventional broiling methods taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,094,865 and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,057,331.