Can Loud Sounds Cook Things?

Yes, sound can definitely produce heat. But you can’t cook food from yelling at it (sorry Gordon Ramsey). What we call sound is really a patterned, regular, ordered movement of individual particles. When we speak to each other, we force air through the small opening of our throat and shape it with our mouths. This makes the air molecules bunch together in specific patterns on their way out. Those air molecules then expand again, pushing against their neighbors, which makes them contract, a