There are two ways...

to make a pasta n' sauce. A normal person's way and my other half's way.

Normal person.

Read packet

tip contents into a bowl, add required ingredients

cover with cling film with a couple of air vents

put in microwave for required time

serve

My other half

ask me how to make pasta n sauce

hunt in the cupboard, declare there aren't any.

accepts packet passed to him by me from the previously mentioned cupboard

measure milk in a jug

tip packet contents into bowl

add milk

pour whole thing into a non metallic bowl after prompting from me with reminder about metal in microwave ovens

puts dinner plate on top of bowl due to extreme aversion to cling film (apparently it tries to kill him)

take bowl out of microwave after hearing loud bangs and asks how to cook it without it exploding all over the microwave.

Gets cling film out of the cupboard after me saying thats what he needs to use.

swear words coming from kitchen followed by thud, splash and oh bugger.

the cling film did try to kill him (so he says) and not succeeding it then (on purpose to piss him off) knocked the bowl of half cooked pasta n sauce onto the floor.

I finished off cooking the remainder of the pasta n sauce and banished him from the kitchen whilst mopping the floor and de-pasta n saucing the microwave.

Easy and convenient eh? not in our house!!