3 hours ago, Dave the Cook said:Ahem. From the Department of Self-Aggrandizement: the following appeared in the Daily Gullet in March, 2003. A few of the references are dated, and I haven't reviewed it for recent historic revelation or scientific understanding (though I can vouch for the results of the experiments in a current-day microwave, and I do have a pretty good idea of why the grape thing works).
The link that Anna provides does give a pretty good explanation on why this grape thing works. 🙂
Check the video at the end of the article or even better, go to to The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences where the Canadian researchers published their paper, Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers