SCIENTISTS ONLY - What does microwaves taste like?

I suspect that some part inside your oven is overheating and will fail pretty soon. You should plan on replacing it. In the meantime don't walk away while it's running. I mean you want to be there to pull the plug if it smokes.

Microwaves do not have a taste. Tastes are produced by stimulation of receptors on the tongue and the soft palate, and those are behind a lot of flesh. If your face is exposed to microwaves your eyes would suffer badly (greatly increased risk of cataracts) but you would probably not taste or smell anything.

Food that has been microwaved is something else. The microwaves do not persist, but during cooking many foods develop hot spots where scorched or burned areas appear, and those can taste metallic.

Having stood in a microwave beam a time or two, I didn't taste anything but did notice some warming. In the oven case, the microwaves are gone when you're eating the food. If somebody else also notices odd tastes, there's a fault in the oven - something overheating or arcing.

Microwaves are electromagnetic waves. They do not stimulate gustatory and olfactory receptors; therefore, you can neither taste or smell them. I will agree microwave foods does not always taste its best. I doubt you know the taste of mercury or zinc.

I think there is a correlation between microwave use and increase in cancer.

Food does not taste the same, and often food is cooked in plastics which are known to decompose into the food.

um that not normal, i have never tasted or smelled anything metallic from my mic