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 Nooooooo. At least when doing pour over thats why you wet your beans and let the beans sit for a sec before you continue to pour. The heat from the boiled water does that already. It would be redundant to microwave them before doing that. 
 If they want ‘prereleased’ aromas due to heat expansion toss them in a pan over heat for a minute. The only thing microwaves are good for is storing phones in. 
 It kills my soul a little every time, but I do sometimes find it handy to heat water for tea if I don’t have time to boil the kettle 😢 
 It helps to have extra steps. Like needing to go outside and turn on a generator in order to use a microwave. 🤓

I have a small thin wall pot I use for heating water. It’s very fast. 

As if we ever don’t have time. 
 My kettle is huge so the thermal mass of the water inside is large. 

This is great for when it’s already gotten hot and you want more tea all through the day. It then takes less time to bring back to boil. 
 well… pshaw! get you a small pot!
or hire a man named Mike or Dan to just have hot water for you at all times. Dan the hot water man.