what are the real dangers of microwave cooking?
151070
Accidentally putting foil and metal in the microwave can cause a fire.
925341
Maybe a regular piece of paper, as long as you are right there to watch it and if it starts to burn hurry up and take it out.  It depends on the microwave and how old it is.  I have done it with mine and it was ok.  Be careful.
492770
No , I think ? Microwaves would not have enough forces ???? Any way it would be insreresting to research   Go for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
553986
When I was about 10 years old I tried to heat up a metal rod on the coils of a 2kW electric radiator. I vaguely remember that a moment passed and then wham! I was thrown back so hard I toppled the settee behind me.\n\nSurprisingly I suffered no other ill-effects, not even a burnt thumb and forefinger.\n\nElectricity is dangerous stuff.\n\nIt was an interesting experience, not to be repeated.
957935
Nearly everybody in industrialized nations have been using microwaves on a daily basis for the entire duration of the 80's up until now.  Fewer, but a substantial amount of people have been using microwaves when they were not as dirt cheap in the 50's, 60's and 70's.\n\nThink about it; if there were a true carcinogenic threat from food cooked in a microwave oven, wouldn't we see a big increase in cancer patients starting in the 80's and increasing up until now?  Wouldn't somebody have figured out the carcinogenic threat already?
334444
Every mobile phone has a transmitter and a reciever in it, the signals orperate by microwave. The disruption of the microwaves passing through your brain to the reciever and out again to transmit can make you more likely to have tumors. The waves can disrupt your DNA sequence which is what starts tumors developing. It's the same sort of principle for living too close to powerlines, prolonged exposure can be dangerous. They can sometime interfere with electronics the same way but instead of tumors they creat signal blockages. That is why you're asked to turn them off on flights.
938432
No.  But if that microwave oven is all that old and worn out that the seal is actually broken, get rid of it.\nThen if you are worried about getting cancer, go on a vegetarian diet wherein you're getting a lot of fresh raw fruits and salad vegetables, a little raw nuts and seeds daily if you can chew them, and otherwise use a blender. And in summer if you feel that to look great you must lay out in the hot sun for hours and tan, better stop that as this can catch up with one and can bring on skin or other cancer.
787222
if you turn on the laser, the effect depends on the stenght of the laser. The average person probably could not get a laser stong enough to do any real damage. If you turn on the microwave, you will get sparks and bangs from the metal compenents of the laser. It probably will not work after the exerience, but only because the compenent will have moved. Mircowaves are not likle to be the right wavelength to case the stimulated emission nessary to make the laser work.
20070
Cooking food with microwaves was discovered by Percy Spencer while building magnetrons for radar sets at Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed a strange sensation, and saw that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket had melted.\n\nIt was patented in 1946
662527
Microwaves do emit radiation, but, true to their name, the radiation is in the form of micro-waves.  These waves lack the power to penetrate skin.  \n\nThe heat is of a worse danger, as testicles require a temperature lowere than that of the rest of the body, but I doubt that that is a concern so long as the door is closed and you yourself are not directly within the source of heat.  \n\nEven with that concern, men produce so much sperm each day that it is unlikely that you would be rendered infertile.\n\nI do believe that your reproductive future is safe.
165006
It is not dangerous if you take the obvious precautions.\nHere in the damp and chilly UK this method has often been used.\nBut, good news, you don't have to leave the door open. Why not cook things at the same time.\nIf you think about it, all the heat of a closed oven does eventually escape anyway - so why not use it.
501877
The 1800 has double the energy emission but both are pretty much negligable to the human anatomy\n\nAnd no, being near microwave-oven frequencies doesn't matter. Many many wireless consumer items use the 2.4ghz frequency and no ones brain is being fried.... unless you're infront of the tv 12 hours a day... but that's a differnet story
971595
remember a microwave heats the water molecules directly.  So it doesn't get much hotter than 100ºC as long as there's liquid water around.
877766
The microwaves hae a frequency which is very close to the distance between the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms in the water molecule. Because of this fact it causes that bond to vibrate and thereby adding energy or heat. This is why water is required for a microwave.
787727
Yes. You should not even have one in the house. Microwaved water will not sprout a seed.
822916
heating distilled water for about 10 minutes and then dropping a skittles or something about that size in it...it is \n!!!VERY DANGEROUS!!!DONT TAKE IT OUT OF THE MICROWAVE UNTIL ITS COOLED OFF!!!
391410
Proper Voltage of Tolerance that a body can take is not harmful, but more than the tolerable can get body organs cooked.  \nElectricity never reamsin in the human body it just pass through.. for a brief millisecond...\n\n-- Hope this helps.. Goodluck =)