No cannibalism intended lol. Completely out of curiosity.
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Kind of, but not really. A sunburn is from exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, which damages and kills cells. While some of the damage is from heat, and the affected area feels hot, it’s not a heat based effect but rather its about UV rays. UV photons are more powerful than photons in the visbale spectrum, and have so much energy they can cause your DNA to break. Sometimes, this damage is so severe that the cells commit suicide by triggering a process called apoptosis. This is to prevent the damage from turning into cancer, and unfortunately isn’t always successful.
Cooking meats, on the other hand, is about heat causing a denaturing and coagulation of proteins in the meat. Your stove doesn’t emit any UV rays, so the type of damage is different.
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