That's exactly my claim. Otherwise why would Percy Spencer have been carrying it there, and why would he have been surprised when it melted?
Unboiling an egg is quite mundane when compared to what else you could do with egg-unboiling technology. (I'll leave that speculation to the other fine comments on this post)
I think the parent commenter is trying to make the point that candy bars commonly melt in people's pockets by processes other than microwave radiation. Body heat, or the weather in Arizona can both cause the same effect. Microwave radiation near your crotch is, fortunately, not common at all.
Unboiling an egg seems a lot less mundane than a candy bar melting, to me.
Nobody is comparing unboiling an egg to a candy bar melting. And nobody cares whether body heat or Arizona typically melt candy bars (they do) since it's totally irrelevant to the Percy Spencer story. Please tell me you read this thread from the beginning?
To repeat: "OP just means the headline is talking only about the somewhat mundane event, not the much bigger implications." And, yes, unboiling an egg is a mundane headline when compared to its much bigger implications.
Driving is mundane when compared to flying a fighter jet in combat. But driving is not mundane.
And I don't understand why you're still saying the candy bar melting in Spencer's pocket isn't surprising. It's his story. Spencer himself said it was surprising. Can't you take his word for it?
Maybe I'm not understanding your point, obviously you aren't claiming that before the 1940's candy bars didn't melt in people pockets?