Editor’s message: experiments with microwave kitchen ovens

Electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens.

Electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens in Saudi Arabia was investigated by means of a field measurement survey. The survey was carried out for 106 ovens used in households and restaurants in Riyadh city. Ovens were between 1 month and 14 years old with operating power ranging from 0.5 to 4.4 kW. One oven was found to leak more than the 5 mW cm(-2) limit specified in the standard. Fiftee...

Are Microwave Ovens a Source of Danger?

Heating Performance Assessment of Domestic Microwave Ovens

Due to inherent nature of standing wave patterns of microwaves inside a cavity and dielectric properties of different components in a food, microwave heating leaves non-uniform distribution of energy inside the food volumetrically. Achieving heating uniformity plays critical role in improving the safety of microwave heated products. In this paper, we present a method for assessing heating unifo...

The use of microwave ovens by elderly persons with disabilities.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effectiveness of microwave ovens in assisting elderly persons with disabilities with cooking food. METHOD The participants were five elderly persons who had gross motor, fine motor, or vision impairments but no cognitive impairments. Before the study, none of the participants owned or operated a microwave oven. In this single-subject design of four phases (AB...

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