Misinformation about microwave ovens is everywhere.

Some say that devices themselves destroy the tissue of anyone nearby.

Some say that any food cooked in a microwave either becomes instantly poisonous or loses

all nutritional value.

Could there be any truth to any of this?

Is the way a microwave heats food really so strange as to cause any such effects?

Let's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, death in your kitchen, microwave ovens.

Today we're going to walk on the wild side and eat some microwaved food.

You've never really lived until you've lived dangerously, so let's put our lives on

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