Microwave Oven Day

When Celebrated

Always on December 6th

Gifty-ness

About the Holiday

Microwave Oven Day celebrates the appliance that brought cooked-in-minutes convenience to kitchens across the US. With the modern convenience of nuking it, cooking became so simple that just about anyone could quickly make a simple meal. The microwave oven, then called the Radarange, was invented by Dr. Percy Spencer after World War II based on technology developed during the war and first sold in 1947.^[1] The microwave gets it's name due to the electromagnetic waves used for this device are in what's referred to as the microwave range of frequencies. The microwave works by spinning water, fat and sugar molecules to create heat from the friction of their rotation.

References

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Microwave Oven

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