How do microwaves cook the food and produce heat

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asked Jul 3, 2017 in Other-Home/Garden by Liloo (920 points)
How do microwaves create heat and cook the food inside?

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answered Jul 3, 2017 by 409xs (670 points)
Microwave's cook food by the use of radio waves at a specifically set frequency that agitate the water molecules in food.

As the water molecules get increasingly agitated they begin to vibrate at an atomic level and generate the heat. This heat is what actually cooks the food.

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