The convenience and speed of cooking in a microwave oven has lead to it's tremendous popularity. Today few homes do not use the microwave oven for some form of cooking. However, not many people know that there is a right way and wrong way to boil water in a microwave oven. Doing it the wrong way can cause serious and permanent injury.

Safety experts warn that putting a bowl full of water or a mug full of water in a microwave, without anything else added to the water can be dangerous. This leads to a condition that is scientifically referred to as 'superheating' of water. What this basically means is that the water gets very hot without showing the conventional bubbles that develop as the water heats up. When this does happen, the user could take out the boiled water from the microwave oven and the trapped heat comes bursting out of the vessel. This could happen at the slightest jerk and implies a release of heated steam on the face, eyes or hands of the user.

The right way to boil water in a microwave involves, added a wodden spoon or a tea bag or tea leaves into the vessel. This allows the heat generated to be released throghout the boiling process. The heat bubbles are not trapped in the water and the whole procedure gets to be much safer.

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