Also, is this a Weird Al reference? "Stick your head in a microwave and give yourself a tan! Dare to be stupid! Dare to be stupid!"

@skybrook
I've read that an engineer at Bell left his brown bag lunch in front of an antenna and came back to find the hard-boiled eggs burst open and the candy bar melted, and that prior to that no one had thought the energy transfer could be significant for a practical application.

Engineers working for the Raytheon corporation would frequently warm their hands in front of the banks of magnetrons used in early radar technology, and eventually they proposed the idea to use that heat to cook food. Raytheon then stole their idea, erased their names from history, and started producing the commercial microwave oven.

Also in that article it makes the interesting observation that the reason your microwave won't cook food evenly is the FCC demanded it. So, enjoy yet another reason to hate those bastards.