Re:Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Min...
by londons_explore on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:03PM
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Notably, that field is powerful enough that microwave doors need to be about an inch thick. The rest of the inch is just empty space and a sheet of plastic to stop you putting your fingers into the evanescent field.
Unfortunately there were a few microwaves sold recently in Europe which forgot that design element, and if you pointed at food while cooking it, you would cook your fingers too.
"Propagation" is probably not the right word, but fractional wavelengths can "leak" some amount of field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_field