I’m quite upset.

I had a rather cool idea for a patentable invention, only to find that somebody beat me to the punch by a little under a year.  Although, I think there’s one element of my idea that’s not in their (quite exhaustive) patent application.

Two, is that anybody who’s interested in cleaning a microwave interior, where said interior has stubborn caked-on food waste, only need boil a bowlful of water and place that bowl within the microwave.  The hot water will rapidly evaporate and condense on the interior walls of the microwave, thereby soaking the food waste and making it much easier to clean out.   This cleaning can be done within 5 minutes or so of placing the bowl of water within the microwave.

This is a known trick apparently; I didn’t know that until I looked it up while writing this post.