Re: FN-FORUM: Lunch (OT)

date posted 29th January 2005 19:02

In freelance.forum, Mark Vickers [EMAIL REMOVED] (Mark
Vickers) wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]

>
>Funnily enough, the whole way microwave ovens were developed, was some guy
>in a research lab working on reanimation after freezing. He was using
>hamsters as his subjects - I guess they'd run out of idiot soldiers at
>Porton Down - and found that using an oven just wouldn't work: it heated the
>deep-frozen hamsters from the outside and they just didn't like it. So he
>borrowed a microwave magnetron from the guy in the cubicle next door who was
>researching communications - and it warmed the inside of the hamsters at the
>same speed. I think the hamsters still died, but at least the gateway was
>opened to a generation of warm jelly-baby addicts . . . And explains why
>your ear feels so weird after ten minutes on your mobile phone . . .

It's a common misconception that microwaves somehow cook food "from the
inside"- it's true that the microwaves penetrate some way into the surface
of foods, but the intensity still falls off with depth. It cooks *more*
evenly than just heating the surface and relying on conduction, but it's
not magic.
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