[moffkalast]

Weren't microwave ovens invented because someone's chocolate melted in their pocket while operating a radio transmitter? Maybe it's just a lady godiva story since it seems weird that the person wouldn't feel overly hot as well, but maybe.

[marcosdumay]

It's a well known story, he was doing maintenance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery

The thing is, you don't need a lot of extra heat to melt a chocolate bar on your pocket. It's perfectly possible that everybody felt hot when working on an active radar, but didn't discuss it or maybe even notice the correlation.

[InvisGhost]

The bit on that wikipedia page about reanimating frozen hamsters is a bit of a sci-fi nightmare

[moffkalast]

Tom Scott has a great video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y

[moffkalast]

Oh wow it's even known what brand of a bar it was, funny that.

> The first food deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave oven was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.

They were having a blast I see.