Is It Dangerous To Stand In Front Of The Microwave And Watch Your Food Cook?!


Question:

Is It Dangerous To Stand In Front Of The Microwave And Watch Your Food Cook?

Just wondering, I sometimes just stand in front of the microwave while its on and stare into the window watching my food cook...Is this bad? I've heard some stuff in the past that this could happen or that could happen...Please tell me the dangers(if any)


Answers: Here's the scientific reason, simplified *greatly*, as to why standing in watching-distance of your food is PERFECTLY SAFE.

Micro waves are waves just like any other-- radio waves, light waves, sound waves. Microwaves just happen to be long and lazy compared to, say, light waves.

Chart:

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Notice the weird pattern of dots in the window of your microwave? It sounds crazy, but the microwaves oscillate at such long and lazy frequency that the two layers of this mesh stop them right in their tracks! If they aren't caught by the first mesh, they run into the second and can't escape!

Don't believe me? Hold a chocolate bar right in front of the window and watch how it doesn't even get soft, much less melt as much as a chocolate bar inside the microwave oven.

Then why can you still see your food with the light bulb? Because light waves are nimble enough to dodge both of these meshes, allowing the light to escape, and you to see your food.

Ain't science cool?


Note: There is a tiny bit of leakage out the sides and such, but it's TEENSY-WEENSY and severely limited by government regulations. I'd be suspicious of older microvwaves (pre-1990) but today's nukes are undoubtedly safe. VERY DANGEROUS if u stare into a microwave while its warming the food u can harm your eyesight Yep. You could get hit by a meteor and realize you just wasted the last 17 seconds of your life. Not dangerous. Gosh in this litigious society you would hear about the manufactures getting sued left and right if it were dangerous. Now putting a cell phone next to your brain and transmitting RF at the same frequency that a microwave uses, that is what you should be questioning. Notice that screen in the window of your microwave. That blocks the RF from the microwave from getting out, what blocks the RF from you cell phone from going directly into you brain, right, nothing! i wouldnt recommend it, microwaves do tend to omit energy as seals wear out , good to check it every so often, they have tools to read for leackage You should not stand closer than one meter (40 inches) when the microwave oven is operating. (For real). At worse, though, a microwave leak would only fry your testes, your brains and your eyeballs.
http://www.lessemf.com/mw-stnds.html... yeah, lots of people have died from that! lol No danger at all



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