While there are a few ways to pull it off easily in a home kitchen, none are as quick and easy as using the microwave. However, melting butter in the microwave can be a nerve-wracking affair.

Although your microwave regularly heats up, you still need to make sure you're cleaning it thoroughly. Here's why you shouldn't neglect your microwave.

Melting butter, then cooling it and trying to whip it again never gives the same good result that softened butter gives, so make sure if you soften your butter in a microwave, or on top of the ...

One day while working near the magnetrons that produced microwaves, Spencer noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt - shortly after, the microwave oven was born.