If waiting 1 minute is good, perhaps 10 minutes would be ten times better.What does the 1 minute accomplish exactly? Does a microwave continue to operate after it's turned off? That would be cool, some kind of machine that generates energy without inputting energy? Better than perpetual motion?

To intercept stray microwaves and protect the brain when in the vicinity of a microwave oven one ought to wrap ones head in bacon, but dipping the head into beaten egg yolk would be better still .