Introduction – National Microwave Oven Day is celebrated every year on December 6 to honor or celebrate the invention of the most influential kitchen appliances which have made cooking delicious dishes and reheating food items more convenient, easy to use, and suitable for busy individuals. The main advantage of microwave oven is it uses less energy as compared with conventional ovens about 80 percent. A microwave oven is used in reheating or cooking food by using electromagnetic radiation to produce heat. Microwave ovens are used in making several varieties of delicious dishes including popcorn, pudding, cakes, and many more.

A microwave oven is a very popular kitchen device that heats and cooks food by the use of microwave radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum in a very quick time and maintain the nutrients in food. Microwave ovens are used for reheating earlier cooked foods and cooking a different variety of foods. They are also useful for rapid heating for slowly prepared cooking items including hot butter, fats, and chocolate.

History – An American engineer, Percy Spencer invented a microwave oven that can be used in reheating and making food securely by using electromagnetic radiation. Percy Spencer worked at Raytheon Technologies Corporation in the United States in the early 1940s to develop combat radar equipment with the help of magnetrons for the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Percy invented the microwave oven by chance.

In the past, Spencer noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket melting when working with an active radar in the year 1945 which led to the invention of microwave ovens. The high-powered microwave beam creates a heating effect in the microwave oven that is perfect or suitable to cook and reheat food. Percy intentionally attempted to cook popcorn by using the microwave. After that, Spencer cooked an egg by using a microwave oven. The company filed a patent application for the microwave cooking process that was made by Spencer on October 8, in the year 1945. There is around 90 percent of homes in the United States use or have a microwave for cooking or reheating food and making cakes or pudding.

Significance – Presently, the microwave oven is a very popular kitchen appliance across the world that cooks and heats or reheats food securely or easily in minutes by using microwave radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, which maintains the nutrients in food. Microwave oven is easy to use so everyone uses microwave oven to make delicious dishes including pudding. cakes, pudding, reheat food, and many more worldwide. You can celebrate this day by making cake and pudding with the help of a microwave oven and enjoy it with your family members and close friends.