Is microwave heated water safe?

You might have high blood pressure from all the caffeine but there's nothing demonstrably wrong with microwaved foods, much less microwaved water.

The non-ionizing radiation in the microwave oven causes the water molecules to reverse polarity, which causes them to spin. It's still water.

Non-ionizing radiation is everywhere - heat, light, etc. Get over it. Sure, the 2.4ghz coming out of the magnetron is a bit different from sunlight, so don't make love to the machine if it's turned on.

Whoops!

Probably, but what is unhealthy is all that caffeine. Water heated by RF isn't any different than water heated on the stove.

--scott

I didn't think there's much caffeine in green.

Exactly the same in green and black tea. If he uses 10 X 2g bags, that's

I've had an oolong that was very high in caffeine and which caused caffeine buzzes after two 2 ounce cups (prepared modified gongfu style).

That's the problem I have with gongfu - you are adding a relatively small amount of water to a lot of tea, so the first steep or two knocks your socks off. If the tea is high quality, though, I hate to pitch it.

Regards, Dean

I *think* I did a very quick rinse with that tea. It's supposed to have caffeine in it. One simply should not drink a full 8 oz. mug of it .

My blood pressure suffers if I have more than one mug of tea a day. I try to make that mug count.

Green is such an amazing antioxidant, though! Thanks for the info re. the microwave.

I remember seeing a report regarding a restaurant where the kitchen staff removed the door from the microwave oven so they could rapidly add and remove food items as they heated them.

I believe some of them developed tumors or some other deleterious health problems from exposure to the microwaves.

How dangerous is microwave exposure anyway?

I would think the tingly feeling in your balls would be a good warning.

The only health affects I know of are cataracts of the eye. It is not ionizing radiation.

Befor the effects of radar were knowen. I know that a tech leanded over the Horn of a vastly powerfull military radar for a long time while working. that night he was found dead of a COOKER LIVER.

I don't think it applys here, but its the only radar story I know. Actualy theres a nother about cooking seagulls floating near a missleship with is powerfull traking radars.

because of the defuser in the micro, I would not remove the door

tom

Thats COOKED

sorry

It's pretty bad, because it causes internal tissue heating. Rather than just surface heat, it heats your body from the inside out. This has all kinds of deleterious health effects.

I knew a guy who used to claim he could hear microwaves... when he was standing in front of a 2 MW erp radar that was in about the same band as a microwave oven, he could tell whether it was turned on or not. Turned out what he was hearing was noise from his skull expanding slightly due to the heating effects. This is bad for you. Admittedly the radiated power there was about 2,000 times higher than a microwave oven, but he was also at a distance so the field strength probably wasn't as high as inside an oven.

--scott

In Russian Army they used to do an ugly trick to warn soldiers about being in front of horns - threw a stray cat into a high-energy max out horn path. Interestingly enough, the officer would never emphasize the risk of death - his words would be - "Observe. The cat is dead. Think what this will do to your balls". I never attempted a biopsy of a cat but dead it was each and every time. These demos, however ugly and inhumane by my current standards, did the job well. Nobody wanted the balls cooked. I wonder how they did it in female communications detachments.

Sasha.