Way off topic fear of microwave ovens

Anyone here know of anyone that is terrified of Microwaves ovens and dont use them? Curious question went around the plant today.

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No, But them there compukers!! Now THATS a driffernt story!!

Yup, know an old lady that won't own a microwave or a cell phone......too new fangled....

Most everyone with a pacemaker?

have had a pacemaker for a little over 5 yrs and no problem w/microwaves.

My wife's aunt and my Mennonite neighbor both think they overheat the food and ruin it. The Aunt will go into a long winded explaination on how the atoms get moving and make the food dangerous to eat.

But she's from Iowa, bless her heart...

I actually worked with a Program Manager last year who believed that the food was radioactive after being heated in a microwave, and absolutely would not listen to me or accept how the physics of a microwave worked. He was also a religious nut, so who knows what his "church" told him. I thought he was pretty much an idiot anyway.

Back in the 70s when the first came into use in restaurants there were warning signs posted that there was a microwave in use. They were first marketed as a "Radar Range"

YES, My youngest is house sitting for a guy (From Calif!) who doesn't have a Microwave in the house. She said he says they are too dangerous????
Laughed so hard she told me to knock it off. (I just had to ask if he also had a tin foil hat!)
Andrew

In high school I worked part time at the Dairy Queen. I was working in the kitchen one day and threw a hotdog in the microwave. I was in a big hurry. I opened the microwave and pulled out the hotdog and put it in the bun. As I was wrapping it I realized that the microwave never turned off during that. There was something wrong with the door switch. Boss man pitched it.

I've always wondered how much of my right arm was cooked.

A friend's mom won't use one. She swears that the "waves" ruin your brain. She's mostly ruined already.

Shes got a lot more to worry about than just microwaves floating around in the air. She probably wont use an electric blanket either due to the magnetic field, same with high power lines.

Cell towers throw out way more juice than a microwave.

When they first came out to the public the Consumer Report said they leaked bad and some people still think something made in 1970 is still built to the same standard today. All of their test since have been fine.

Most chiropractors and health food nuts that I know won't use them. I heard it alters the molecules of the food to where the body just passes it through or stores it as fat. ??????

Not to say they change food or not but a while back I read about a study done by some students that watered plants with microwaved and cooled water and compared that to plants watered with ordinary tap water. Huge difference in the size of the plants with the ones watered with ordinary water being considerably larger.
Dave

I have a relative who is a great poker player, so you know he can tell BS with an absolutly straight face. He was driving through his hilltop housing community with one of his young workers. The young guy wondered what the two large microwave towers just west of the housing project were for. With am absolutly sober , matter of fact face, he told the guy that they supply microwaves so everyones microwave oven will work. Took a few minutes of thinking before the guy said "Aw BS" ;-)

What most people don't realize is we are constantly bombarded by microwaves and other radio waves from the sun. People will go out and get a sun tan and then turn around and talk about the evils of using a microwave. Jim

When the microwave ovens first came out, the electronic shops would have demonstrations for the ladies on how to run them and show them all the benefits. My brother was working at an electronic shop at that time and my mom went to one of those demonstrations. She came home and was very impressed on how fast these things could heat up food. My brother also got her one for Christmas that year. It was an Amana Radar Range.
The thing must have really leaked radiation, though. As a kid, I remember when the microwave oven was on, it would completely knock out the TV reception. We were always glad when that thing would click off so we could get back to our show. We still have the oven, and it still works, but it's packed away and not used.

After being convinced by relatives to get one, 90 year old Great Grandmother wasn't impressed because it couldn't make toast. This was back in the late 80's

They were referred to as a RADAR (RAdio Detection And
Rangefinding) Range because they used a Magnetron for the
heat source. As I recall Amana was the first one with them,
under that name, and that was around mid to late 1960's.

Magnetrons are inexpensive (considering) devices that some
lower technology RADAR systems use to propagate microwave
energy out into space. It bounces off "targets" and those signals
are returned to the receiver in the radar equipment and is
displayed for the operator to see. It was developed during the
second WW by British and US interests. The US involvement was
at MIT. It was far superior to any radars available at the time.

The magnetron in a microwave does that too only the engergy is
confined to duct work and the cooking chamber. The frequency
of the cooking magnetron is 2.4 GHz as I recall and was selected
because that is the frequency that resonates water molecules.
Resonating them causes internal friction and they get hot. It was
accidentally discovered by a physist at MIT also. He was
conducting an experiment on something and noticed water
bubbling in an adjacent beaker. So was born the magnetron to
the kitchen.

The magnetrons used in microwave ovens are the most simplistic
of magnetrons. Basically they are a microwave cavity with an
output port powered by a high voltage transformer stepping up
115 volts. The power applied is sinusoidal (regular household
power) but the magnetron only conducts when the cathode
(electron emitting device) is negative to the other element....the
anode. So it's self rectifying and saves the cost of adding those
circuits. Raytheon, in Waltham, Mass. produced them for years
in a very large assembly line. I saw it.

The grilles in the glass front have holes that are less than 1/4
wave length which prevents them from propagating microwave
energy out into the room. The metallic walls and sharp angles in
the door sealing area prevent leaks elsewhere, by design.

HTH,
Mark

A friend who serviced restaurant equipment said he found a lot of leakage on doors. A microwave oven aint good for much.They do put a hard knot on the end of a potato. I cook breakfast on a wood fired stove.Ill use the electric stove when it gets hard to get a good draft.Most microwaves get the dish hotter than the food it contains.

(quoted from post at 19:52:47 05/29/13) Shes got a lot more to worry about than just microwaves floating around in the air. [b:5c6932b304]She probably wont use an electric blanket either due to the magnetic field,[/b:5c6932b304] same with high power lines.

Cell towers throw out way more juice than a microwave.

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Well, maybe it's just coincidence, but I've seen a pretty high percentage of dead babies where Mom had them under an electric crib blanket. This was some years back, but I'm still real shy of the idea. Dead infants will do that to you.

My mother never had one & she lived to be over 101.

My sister won't use one. Hers broke about 10 yrs ago and shes glad. She thinks microwaves are bad, Store bought beef is killing us but goes to McD's, Chlorine in water is causing cancer, Chiropractors can cure EVERYTHING, Baby formula is killing us..... My 90 yr old mother covers all her leftovers up before she warms them in her micro, WITH FOIL! No fire yet!

We were not really using ours and got rid of it about 5 years ago. With the kids up and gone don't really miss it.

Rick

We the mw broke didnt replace it.. We have a George foreman toaster oven seldom use large oven