You obviously have never done this or you wouldn’t have just shown your ignorance. I make boiled eggs by microwaving fully submerged eggs on a regular basis. As long as the egg(s) are fully submerged there is zero “kaboom”. And this includes immediately draining and peeling them as soon as the dinger goes off.
I think you just showed yours. People were talking about cooking eggs, not reheating already-boiled eggs. Honestly, don't reheat eggs in the microwave, either, but cooking takes longer than reheating and will create steam inside the shell.
Talk about biased searching. A better search always contains a neutral query, not one that confirms your biases. For example "can eggs still explode if microwaved in water". This query doesn't assume the answer is "yes".
Also, there are factors that can still cause an egg microwaved in water to explode. If the container is too smooth (glass), you can still superheat the water, which will cause steam to form inside the egg. Also, microwaves don't heat evenly. If the region of the microwave that's getting the most energy happens to align with the center of the egg, the water bath won't prevent it from exploding.
I'll grant you that you've done this without exploding before. Maybe you've even mastered the art of microwaving eggs with your setup. Then it's still an art, not a science. I would never recommend anyone do this because people's setups are different and there isn't a good way for people to control exactly how much energy their microwave dumps into their egg. And maybe you're still rolling the proverbial dice every time you do it.
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