# Microwave Dangers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 17, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-dangers/6407 "2000-01-17T22:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-dangers/6407/21 "2001-06-15T20:07:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*If you’re not familiar with them, plug in “snopes” on your search engine. That site tracks them, and gives the “straight dope” on them. \*\* Speaking of which: [http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/fracture/microwav.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/fracture/microwav.htm) ; snopes calls this UL “sort of” true. I’m sure Cecil’s column contained this link, but there it is anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-dangers/6407/22 "2001-06-15T22:05:44Z")
E Bailey Do you still have the manual foryour microwave? I think that mine mentioned the dangers of boiling liquids in the microwave. One of the threads had a link to some movies showing a guy repeatedly boiling water in a mug and showing how it would sort of explode. The site then goes on to explain why this does not happen on the stove top. ---
**Author:** ![E\_Bailey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@E\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-dangers/6407/23 "2001-06-16T01:00:42Z")
No- I still don’t have the manual because it was husband’s BWGM (before we got married). I guess I just thought something so crazy would be common knowledge- like don’t put metal in the microwave. I have never heard of this! I mean the damn thing EXPLODED! I wish I did have the manual, because if there was little or no mention of this, and my daughter had been hurt, I think I might have had to phone my lawyer… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microwave-dangers/6407.md?page=1)