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Well, light has to be concentrated to be hot enough to cook food, kinda like using a magnifying glass to burn stuff, even though normal sunlight can't do it alone.

A2. And don't forget that microwave ovens typically have a power of about 1kW. A 1kW infrared lamp will heat up food pretty fast.

BUT the microwaves penetrate the food to the centre, where they vibrate the water molecule. Whereas you'd have to wait for an IR lamp's heat to be conducted to the centre which will take some time by conduction.

Microwaves are a lot more penetrating than visable light. It gets absorbed easier, wheras light reflects, etc.

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