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Probably not. Microwave heating (you can't very well call it "cooking")
has
been around for 60 years. If there were a risk, it probably would have
been
discovered by now.

Why can't you call it "cooking" ? If the device changes the structure of the
food in some way by the process of heating it, then I would call that
cooking. I make scrambled eggs in the microwave. When I take them out, they
have changed from raw eggs to cooked eggs, exactly the same as if they had
been cooked in a pan ... Canned soup is a different matter. That has
already been cooked at the factory, and in that case, the microwave oven
does not change the structure any further. It *does* merely heat it.


I particularly like the way microwave ovens handle bacon.


So, how's that then ? Is your bacon still raw when it comes out ? Merely
heated ?

Arfa