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A Life of Comfort and Ease (Under Appreciated Modern Conveniances)
Masterpiece:
I stand corrected.
kelpy:
the oven, both conventional and microwave, and stoves too i guess. also the brave pioneers who perfected the cake making process. Also if you describe a microwave, it sounds pretty darn cool. It heats food by bombarding it with radiation, causing polarised molecules in the food to rotate and build up heat. It does this primarily through the use of water in the food as energy. Tell me that's not cool? also cake
LTK:
Everything up to and including 'radiation' is correct. 'Polarised' is only sort of accurate in describing dipole molecules, and the energy comes from the microwaves, not the water. But yeah, pretty cool!
kelpy:
:oops:, goddamn Wikipedia lying to me :x
Carl-E:
It's radiation the way light and heat are radiation. It's plain old everyday electromagnetic radiation, which has nothing to do with radioactivity. It's just got a very short wavelength (hence the name micro-waves) that allow them to jiggle molecules in water and heat up the water content of whatever you're microwaving.
Doesn't change the fact that people call it "nuking some food"!
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