The list now includes items like microwave ovens, dishwashers, rice cookers and water purifiers.

Served straight from the oven or, later in my life, heated for a few seconds in the microwave, I was a happy girl when Sugar Muffins were part of a slow weekend morning.

Throughout the decades, numerous observations of how dust, gas, and ripples in the cosmic microwave background, or the leftover radiation from the primordial plasma of the universe, moved indicated that dark matter exists.

Roughly the size of a microwave, the device sanitizes water using UV light to kill harmful bacteria, viruses and molds.

It’s true that the kitchen starts making your food 30 minutes before you order it, but, observes the Doctor, “It’s still microwaved.”