Artichokes baked in butter for an hour are a delicious (typ. appetizer) dish…but doing it in a microwave (maybe under an hour then?) without cheesecloth over it sounds like it would dry out the outer leaves. It was a challenge to ‘fancy settings are lost on us’ (and/or having local artichokes; hope it works out?)
OTL no idea how to do it without packing a pound of butter and maybe tarragon in between artichoke leaves.