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ELI5: Why does food heated in the microwave taste much worse than food heated through other means?

If I put a slice of pizza in the oven, it comes out delicious, but the same slice of pizza in the microwave is not.
gpt
Microwaves work by heating up the water contained in your food, the heat in the water warms all the other matter in your food along with it. So basically it's like boiling the food from the inside.  As you can imagine a boiled pizza is not going to taste as good as a pizza that is dry heat cooked in an oven.