Nigella Lawson says she is too self-conscious to say ‘microwave’

Clips of chef saying ‘meecro-wah-vay’ were shared widely online. ‘That’s what we call it at home,’ she says

It was a mispronunciation that launched a thousand memes. Now Nigella Lawson has said she feels too self-conscious to utter the word “microwave” after her pronunciation went viral.

A clip of the celebrity chef pronouncing “microwave” as “meecro-wah-vay” while talking about heating milk was shared widely online in 2020.