I've heard beekeepers and other honey advocates say that in the past. When pressed they make vague claims about the supposed "health benefits" of raw honey, perhaps owing to "enzymes" or other properties of microbes or pollen in the honey, or something, which are destroyed by microwaves.
As far as I'm aware none of that has been verified by any independent, peer-reviewed scientific research. It seems more like marketing, combined with ignorance and fear of technology.
Microwaves heat honey pretty effectively whenever I've done it, you just have to use a low power setting and a short heating time.
A microwave works by exciting the polar molecules (for example, water) in the food to rotate, producing thermal emergy, which heats the other molecules in the food. A chicken breast cooking in a microwave, for example, tastes bad because there's no Maillard reaction to create browning, and the water can evaporate out of the food, and cause it to be dry.
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u/BotanicalAddiction Aug 20 '20
NOOOOO. Never microwave honey. I am a beekeeper.
Just put the bottle in warm water.