Cooking Cigars in the Microwave Oven

[kansashat]

Let's not let this get outa hand here gents.

teninx: Dismissing this process out of hand because you believe it is "bad practice" without any sources of information isn't exactly a sound way of refuting something.

Also, please note that pyro stated that the cigars were allowed to re-acclimate for 10 days, not 1 day as you stated.

pyro: No need to get defensive........we're all friends here . Most of us understand that you are just bringing up an interesting line of thought, not trying to validate the method.

I will go read the link myself......interesting topic!

[Sawyer]

I have heard of people trying this before. I would not do it to my own cigars though.

[tuneman07]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

This is an interesting article on the microwave and how it works. It appears that the "radiation" is not the dangerous kind that causes cancer like X rays and Gamma rays and such so it is only the heating which would cause death for the beatle eggs and not the rays. The thing is though water is the thing that heats up the most in the microwave so if the beatle eggs are largely made up of water they would probably heat up before the cigar so this could kill them without doing much to the cigar. Unfortunately the microwaves don't necessarily penetrate that far into things so it would be tough to know if you got all the eggs or not. Sounds like we need to proposition mythbusters for this one as it sounds somewhat likely that a microwave could work for this purpose.