This paper is intended to introduce young palm oil mill engineers to the world of microwaves, to generate interest in them to follow research activities in microwave heating techniques, so that they may one day utilise this technology to modernise Palm Oil Milling. Microwave heating in food industry has the advantage of faster and uniform heating than conventional methods and product quality also is known to improve. In palm oil industry microwave heating was tried on spikelets at a time when technology was still at its infancy. Now with improved knowledge, a more serious approach is necessary to utilise it for sterilisation or other process heating.