Learn how a microwave oven heats your food quickly with an easy explanation perfect for 8-year-old children.
A microwave is a special kind of oven that heats your food very fast. Inside the microwave, there is something called a "magnetron" that sends out invisible waves called microwaves. These waves are like tiny, fast-moving energy waves that make the water, fat, and sugar molecules inside your food move around quickly.
When these molecules move and bump into each other, they create heat, which warms up your food from the inside out. That’s why your food gets hot in just a couple of minutes!
So, the microwave oven uses these special waves to heat your food quickly and easily, without making the oven itself very hot like a regular oven does.
Remember to always use microwave-safe containers and never put metal inside because metal can cause sparks!