Share Deep cleaning your microwave often falls low on the list of household cleaning priorities—unless, of course, you’ve just faced a tomato soup explosion or a butter-softening mishap. It’s one of those appliances we tend to overlook unless there’s an obvious mess. However, even a seemingly harmless mess in your microwave isn’t just unsightly; it’s misleading. No germs can survive that level of radiation, right? Wrong. Your microwave oven hosts its own microbiome. What exactly does this mean? Although it has long been thought that microwaves kill bacteria and ensure…
