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Your microwave oven has its own microbiome
(www.nature.com)
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How does bacteria live through being microwaved? I would think they’d boil from the inside out.
If you're reading this I am in dire straights, possibly dead. I woke up this morning to find my microwave is bursting with tardigrades. I have left it cooking nonstop for 13 consecutive days and they've only gotten more pissed off. I've welded their every possible exit from the machine shut, but I fear they are beginning to chew their way out. If you're reading this, tell the government they need to drone strike my location immediately, possibly nuke it. The world is not prepared for what is inside my microwave.
Y'all ever see that one episode of Cowboy Bebop
Who knew lobster could go so wrong?
Hold the nukes it's just going to piss them off
Touch the inside walls of your microwave after you heat something up. They don't get all that hot.
The walls of the microwave don’t contain water. The bacteria do. Microwave ovens work by vibrating water molecules, creating friction and heat. If bacteria are on the oven walls, they should be exploding from the microwaves.
Since the metal wall is conductive, the standing wave pattern inside a typical microwave oven has a magnitude that goes to zero at the conductor surface. The heating power also goes to zero at the wall serface. Additionally, anything in thermal contact with the metal wall will remain close to the temperature of the wall even if there is a heat flux. Bacteria may well be cooked on the carousel plate, but there will be regions within the cooking cavity where bacteria will not experience high enough temperatures for sanitization.
Check out this page and note how the heating profile is vanishingly small around the perimiter. https://www.highfrequencyelectronics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2153:smoothing-electric-fields-in-microwave-ovens&catid=178&Itemid=189
PS: friction is not an applicable term to describe how microwaves rotating dipoles produces heat.
That's a super cool link. Thanks for sharing!