Explain a microwave oven in 10 words or less.
A device to heat foot by exciting molecules with radiation.
A kitchen appliance that uses radio waves to cook food.
An oven that cooks food fast. Really fast.
I mean "foot".
A few attempts:
A device that cooks quickly, but turns everything to mush.
One of the most overrated appliances developed in decades.
A device good only for reheating leftovers or for prepackaged "foods."
A device no serious cook would use to actually cook.
How about:
Convenient kitchen compartment that cooks cold culinary cuisine quickly.
Quick food re-heater
Who's the audience?
"A device that heats liquid with microwaves, typically in food."
That'd be enough for someone who knows what microwaves are...
"An appliance that heats food quickly using radiation."
That might be better for a general audience.
"Lo qué cocina el alimento rápidamente con radiation"
That might work better for people who speak Spanish...
Expensive popcorn popper.
stp, funny you should write that ... because we recently gave up on microwave popcorn and have gone back to Jiffy Pop. Our continuing trend toward Slow Food.
Besides, Jiffy Pop is FUN!
A non-time taker, rubbery muffin maker.
Cooking appliance that uses microwave radiation to cook food.
All electromagnetic energy can be characterized as waves with a specific wavelength and frequency distributed over a continuous range known as the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, some radio waves have a wavelength of 6 feet (2 meters) and a frequency of 50 million hertz (Hz-cycles per second). Visible light waves have a wavelength of 400 to 700 millimicrons, and typical X-rays have a length of 0.01 millimicrons and a frequency of 30 x 1012 millions. Microwaves (short waves or high frequency radio waves) are the shortest of radio waves, with a length of 0.1 millimeter and a frequency of 3 x 101 Hz. They are found in the non-ionizing portion of the energy spectrum, between radio waves and visible light. "Non-ionizing" means that microwaves do not detach charged particles and produce atoms with an unbalanced plus or minus charge. Microwaves can therefore safely produce heat and not cause food to become radioactive. Microwaves are reflected from most metals but they produce inductive resonance's in the atoms of many other substances. It was the discovery of their reaction to metals that led to the invention of radar. It was their ability to produce resonant coupling that led to the invention of the microwave oven.
This seems more like an exercise in brevity than clarity.
"Better than fire, you can't see the radiant killing you."
"Electronic device heats objects with radiation. Film at 11."
Self-Contained Undercabinet Baking Apparatus
What's hard is if the person doesn't have the concept of heat being atomic motion, otherwise Steven aced it on the first post. Minus the foot.
Tho' I'll avoid using "radiation" since it often makes people think of ionizing radiation (radioactivity), so I'll dumb it down as:
"An oven that heats food using radiating waves of energy."
focused energy
briefly dances within box --
my meal is warm.
it cooks food faster than an oven.
A defroster that overcooks parts and leaves other parts frozen.
Fireworks display: just add metal: not included.
Invisible. Fast. Heat. Food.
remove plastic from potatoes and meat; yum.
Wonder of technology. Alien technology.
Electronic oven.
Unexplainable magic which may or may not heat objects within.
Microwave's aren't just for food. A quick Fourth of July show can be had with 3 seconds, a microwave, and a bunch of AOL CDs.
Place the food to be cooked inside. Turn the dial.
a haiku itself,
his response to my posting
fosters a smile.
She sees my cunning! What a wonderful woman! Amy, you are cool!
All Amys and forms of Amy (such as Aimee) are cool.
As for the microwave:
Something to talk about instead of actually working.
exploding hot dogs...
half frozen and half molten...
wal-mart, 35 bucks...
word word word word word An oven in which food is cooked, warmed, or thawed by the heat produced as microwaves cause water molecules in the foodstuff to vibrate word word word word word
In honor of the brief haiku exchange above, I just tried heating some sake in the microwave.
It works.
Like colored flames, photons signify energy jumps, warming watery food
A device that will burn popcorn unless closely supervised.
A small oven that cooks food quickly without heating elements.
Kent ... excellent! Thanks for the chuckle.
Kitchen appliance. Not for drying dogs.
Kitchen Appliance. Not for drying dogs.
Kitchen appliance used for quickly heating food and beverages.
Warms foods placed inside (select duration then start). No metal items!
Cooks food. Can dry underwear in emergency.
Cook fast eat slowly, - use Microwave to achieve that goal!
Honey, nuke the leftovers; I'm coming home.
dangerous, noisy, ruins dinners by wobbling very small parts
Excites food
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