Joking Horse sends in this tale from the dark ages of microwave cooking.

When microwaves first came out, my mom was all excited to make scrambled eggs in record time that Christmas morning. I don’t know if she was just stupid, but she put the eggs in the microwave for twenty-two minutes (it doesn’t take that long to fry an egg) and didn’t realize anything was wrong until the sulphury smell of cooked-to-cardboard eggs began to waft through the house. We even tried them, I think, what we could scrape off the corning ware, just to make her feel better. Now, who really used to be stupid?

I wouldn’t worry too much. If it was people like your mother that paved the way for the invention of the Egg Wave.