I've tried the instructions and other advice and the rolls do not rise properly if at all. The cinnamon rolls are even worse on rising.
Rhodes needs to package theirs like Pillsbury so they will rise.
I hate having to eat little hard like balls of Rhodes dough and rather hard flat, round cinnamon versus just throwing them away. I'd had limited success with some of the rolls but zero luck with the cinnamon ones.

I just baked some of the Rhodes cinnamon buns this morning and they as always came out perfectly...so I am sorry they aren't working for you. I use the 175 degree oven and go from there and they are always good.

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I did that last night..........25 seconds on each side in the microwave and then into 200 degree preheated oven and turn the oven off. Waited 2 hours, NOTHING. Just left them in the oven overnight and still nothing but they got a little hard. Then cooked at 350 for 25 minutes and they rose a micro of an inch. Even after cooking and they get hard the microwave for 1 minute before eating softens them up a little. Not sure what else I can do.

They are out of the oven now and I guess you could say they rose. They are not much bigger than they were coming out of the bag. Nice and soft and cinnamy but I made 12 and most will have to be eaten later and microwaved to soften them up.
I guess I'll keep using them when the sales and coupons match up. I have not seen any Rhodes coupons lately.

It almost sounds like first the yest gets killed by a total of 50 sec in the microwave - then the heat is not consistant enough for the product to rise (the wamr 200 oven turned off) so again the yeat if it is still alive is not warm enough to rise. Try not microwaving them - place them in a warm place such as on top of a warming oven, on top of the frig (their website suggested that) or in a sunny window (if you have one).

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I would say the microwave is the problem. Matter of fact, there are no microwave directions on the type I use.....just the long version and the short version of the regular oven.

I preheat the oven to 175, shut it off and put in the buns. I let them sit until they double in size---about an hour and a half...and then cook them for 15 minutes at 350. Perfect every time,.

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Wow, I have never actually read the directions, LOL. I use the regular rolls all the time. I butter a pizza pan, before I go to bed, put the frozen balls on the pan spread out so they have room to rise, put them in the oven with the door closed (NO HEAT ON) and the next day they are huge, ready to bake. Like the other poster said, your microwave is probably killing the yeast so they won't rise. I have used the rolls for years, it's one of the very few things I am brand loyal to, and I have never had a problem with them.

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I'll try eliminating the microwave which is the directions (the short way to prepare them) on my bag of cinnamon rolls. Since they are frozen I assumed it was to thaw them just a bit.
I'm almost out of the cinnamon rolls but I got tons of dinner rolls, those little round balls of dough and most stay dough no matter how many hours I let them sit and covered. Some seem to rise out one side of the ball, so you get a deformed roll. Half good and the other half hard dough. I guess I'll keep getting them when the sale and coupons match.
I think there are only 12 in a bag? Not sure. I know you get around 12 with Sister Sheuster's and they are ready for the oven when bought.
I guess I need to get married so there is a woman to figure out this baking stuff.

Sounds like they may have been freezer burned.
Sometimes they will get a "crust" on the surface and they don't rise properly. This can happen in some freezers and the product does not have to be out dated.

My current freezer gets ice in packages, but my old one did not.

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mine does too. Ice inside the plastic packages that are inside the cardboard packages. And it does not take long for mine to do it.

I bet that is why your rolls don't rise.

it is the same with my freezer and the freezer protion of my frig. In my frig. freezer, I had some bagel bites, still in the box, I opened it up and ice inside the plastic. I can not buy new appliances so I'll have to deal with not so perfect Rhodes rolls. The freezer burn is not really affecting any thing else.

I've always had good luck with Rhodes. Sorry you haven't. Have you tried it without the microwave yet? Yeast can be pretty touchy, so my guess is the nuking is killing it. Let us know how it turns out.

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well, I found another way by accident. I had 4 frozen Rhodes dough balls in a plastic container. I left it on the counter and when I returned 3 hours later, not only were they thawed but the 4 of them had risen and formed one literally. The plastic lid had been forced off and this massive roll continued to rise outside the container. It was pretty sticky but I got it all out and onto a baking sheet and cooked. Result one huge roll about the size of a soft ball if you can visualize taking the soft ball and pretend it is clay and flatten it out a little. I got a nice 6 inch x 6 inch roll about 2 inches thick. I live in a mobile home and the temps. in here can reach 80 degrees. I could not believe the rising forced the snap on lid off the container.

This is off topic a bit but I have to share some info I just learned.
We are growing a big garden this year and hoping for a lot of produce to freeze which meant we purchased a new chest type freezer. After doing a lot of research its the 'frost free' thing that dries out food and causes the ice crystals!
Of course for a reg fridge/freezer you would not want anything other than that! A freezer only...the frost free is not a good thing because that reason!
The chest type freezer we purhased should only need to be drained once a year and I figure that will be in the spring when we are working on the new garden.
Just a little bit of info I wanted to share!

I have used Rhodes products and loved them! I love watching the rise!