XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: imvalid@somewear.com   
      
   On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:49:55 -0000, rickman  wrote:   
      
   > James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 12/11/2017 11:50 AM:   
   >> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:07:43 -0000, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2007-01-19 12:13, Peter Fucker wrote:   
   >>>> Is it really true that turning on a microwave with nothing in it will   
   >>>> break it?   
   >>>   
   >>> Derp.   
   >>   
   >> It was a sensible question.  This could be done by accident.   
   >   
   > I interviewed with a place once that was doing something with testing   
   > microwave ovens.  They ran them all the time with nothing in them.  I had   
   > always read that you should not operate them with nothing to absorb the   
   > energy and mentioned that.  I got a strange look from the guy.  Obviously   
   > the energy that would be absorbed is within the limits of what the ovens   
   > were designed to get rid of.   
      
   You'd think there would be something that absorbs microwaves that miss the   
   food.  And you'd think such a thing would have a thermal cutout.  Anybody want   
   to try it?   
      
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