Still want to use a microwave for cooking with

[coreopsis]

You're right there - much better wrapped in silver foil and cooked in the fire.

B*&%$r the foil! Bake in the ashes without!

[pigletwillie]

Light is a form of radiation too. Comparing microwave radiation to nuclear radiation is inappropriate.

I am no scientist but daylight doesnt kill you, microwaves can, very easily. Microwaves do have a place I suppose, but I wont use one for cooking food, heating a wheat bag for a bad neck, probably, but not my dinner.

[nerobot]

I find this quite an odd thread to read. Personally, I have a microwave, but don't use it much, simply because I don't like the taste of most food that comes out of it.

However, this "experiment" should not be used to make up anyone's mind! There are several things wrong with it, as has already been stated.

How can people say that they won't use a microwave because "Microwaves are a form of radiation after all." When you cook things in an oven, you are cooking it with the radiation from the oven. As stated, light is a form of radiation, as is inferred light, which will be one of the ways that the food is heating up.

Microwave radiation is exactly the same as light, just at a higher frequency. You can - in theory" cook food with any kind of electromagnetic radiation, but as long as you don't point it at yourself, you are not going to suffer any problem through eating the food cook in it.

Steven

[nerobot]

I am no scientist but daylight doesnt kill you, microwaves can, very easily. Microwaves do have a place I suppose, but I wont use one for cooking food, heating a wheat bag for a bad neck, probably, but not my dinner.

Daylight would kill you if it were at the intensities used in a microwave. Infact, sunlight contains microwaves.

[Capsid]

I am no scientist but daylight doesnt kill you, microwaves can, very easily. Microwaves do have a place I suppose, but I wont use one for cooking food, heating a wheat bag for a bad neck, probably, but not my dinner.

Well that's really my point as others have stated, there are many forms of radiation and I was merely pointing out that it's wrong to compare microwave radiation with nuclear radiation in this case.

[pigletwillie]

I did say I was no scientist. In my non scientist mind there is radiation which is ok, like sunlight and there is radiation that I dont fancy being connected to, that that lurks inside Sellafield, x rays (they wear a lead coat for a reason) and microwaves. Tis just not right in my opinion.

Lots of people think differently as loads of microwaves are sold every year.

Free will and all that

[nerobot]

Sunlight contains xrays, UV light, microwaves, and inferred light, doesn't mean that I'm not going to go outside.

You really should not connect microwave radiation with nuclear radiation (which you do via the Sellafield remark). Microwave radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation, whereas nuclear radiation is something completely different. The latter causes things to become radioactive, whereas the former simply "cooks" tissue at certain intensities, but this tissue does not then have an adverse effect on its surrounds (i.e. via eating it).

Please stop using the two terms interchangeably. It causes confusion and misinformation to those who think you know what you are talking about.

Steven

[lainey lou]

coooooo, chill people, I'm off to Waynes garden..........

[pigletwillie]

like I said, I am no scientist.

I also said there is radiation that I dont like, no inference, no tying together, just my not wanting to get too near. I dont like tripe or avacado, doesnt mean I am trying to "link" them

So please do not infer that I am linking them together, it causes confusion and misinformation to those who think you read what I posted the first time.

[HeyWayne]

Too much love will kill you...

[di]

How can you say you don't like Avacado???

[nerobot]

Woops, it seems like I got a bit too carried away again. No offence intended.

But I do get annoyed by small "experiments" like this, which people then use to justify their own position (happens on both sides).

Steven

[lainey lou]

How can you say you don't like Avacado???

bleugh! It's vile stuff

[HeyWayne]

Don't talk to me about Advocado!! I've been guacamole'd!

Just went up to a pub close by for lunch with my printer. I ordered Fajitas and they come with the usual acutriments - salsa, cheese, soured cream and guacamole. Waitress makes her way over to our table, places trays onto the serving stand, picks up tray with my sauces et all, guacamole slips off, lands on the floor and bounces. Guacamole flies into the air (this bit happens in sloooow mooootioooon) in several directions, one blob lands on my coat draped on the chair next to me, several blobs land on the floor and one particularly large blob lands on my shoulder/chest.

I now have a green stain on my shirt!

[di]

She was probably a little nervous serving the odd guy that takes his printer out to lunch!!!