What Microwaves Look Like Inside of a Microwave Oven

Marc “Zeke” Kossover shows you what microwaves look like inside of a microwave oven.

Microwaves are invisible, so you can’t see them inside microwave oven, but their presence can be detected with neon lamps. The changing electromagnetic field from the microwaves will make charged particles move, and so the electrons in the metal legs will move creating current. This current makes the lamps glow.

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Threads and sharing photos on Instagram.