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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 17, 2007, 02:45:08 pm ---
It's worth looking up anyway.

A Federal standard limits the amount of microwaves that can leak from an oven throughout its lifetime to 5 milliwatts (mW) of microwave radiation per square centimeter at approximately 2 inches from the oven surface. This limit is far below the level known to harm people. Microwave energy also decreases dramatically as you move away from the source of radiation. A measurement made 20 inches from an oven would be approximately one one-hundredth of value measured at 2 inches.

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--- Quote from: shardian on April 17, 2007, 02:54:40 pm ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Safety_and_controversy

It is possible for microwaves to arc out an inch or two from the door. So technically a hot dog could cook if right up against the door. You can also theoretically get cataracts if you stick your face against the glass to watch stuff cook.



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Lessee... Do I trust the snippet from the FDA, or the snippet from Wikipedia...

Buddabing:
The upside of cooking your own brain in the microwave is that you can have a tasty Ray Liotta-style appetizer!

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on April 19, 2007, 09:10:09 am ---Lessee... Do I trust the snippet from the FDA, or the snippet from Wikipedia...

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I'm gonna go with trust them both since they say mostly the same thing on this point.  Microwaves come out an inch or two but no further, they are greatly weakened at that point and dissipate almost completely after that range.

shmokes:
Unless I'm mistaken, cellphones use microwave radios to communicate, and the level of microwave radiation coming from a cellphone is significantly stronger than what you would get by measuring the levels outside a microwave oven, so it's probably neither here nor there unless you've already given up the cellphone, which, I might add, you actually hold against your head for long periods of time.

Or maybe I'm just wrong about that.

Still, do your taste buds a favor and ditch the microwave.

Harry Potter:
Cell phones work on RF, not microwave.

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