by on March 10, 2025
A 2006 research discovered that microwaving wet sponges for two minutes (at a thousand watt energy) removed 99% of coliforms, E. coli and MS2 phages. Bacillus cereus spores were killed at four minutes of microwaving. A 2017 research was less affirmative: about 60% of the germs were killed but the remaining ones rapidly re-colonized the sponge. Closed containers, comparable to eggs, can explode when heated in a microwave oven due to the elevated pressure from steam. Intact recent egg yolks outsid...
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