Why the Microwave Heats the Food, Not the Plate

Shows a magnetron firing into a sealed metal box, a lopsided water molecule getting yanked back and forth, a cool plate sitting under hot food, and a myth panel that most microwave explainers get wrong.

Before you start. You already know that rubbing a balloon on your hair makes it stick to a wall - that’s electric charge pulling on electric charge, nothing to do with magnets. That’s the entire push behind everything below; there’s no new maths, just that pull, flipped very fast.