Mug cakes
By CarDz Paz
@CarDzPaz (5)
Quezon City, Philippines
2 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
8 Nov 15
There's no danger in cooking something in a microwave. It is a myth and a misunderstanding that things cooked in a microwave contain 'dangerous radiation'.
Microwaves are just part of the same electro-magnetic spectrum which includes light, heat (infra-red), ultra-violet, radio waves and X-rays. Certainly some of these are dangerous if we are exposed to them directly but it is no more dangerous to heat something in a microwave oven than it is to warm it in the sun.
What happens in a microwave oven is that the energy from the microwaves is absorbed by the molecules in the food and turned into (harmless) heat in exactly the way that a dark object absorbs the light from the sun and becomes warm.
Microwaves are only dangerous if we are exposed to them directly at high energy because they would cook our flesh just as they cook food. Of course, modern microwave ovens are completely safe because they are well shielded so that none of the harmful rays can escape while the microwave generator is switched on.