Next time you bring home a live lobster with the intention of cooking it up for dinner, leave the pots and pans alone and consider putting it in the microwave. A live lobster, though, just sounded like maybe she was pulling my leg. Can You Really Microwave Lobster? Now, you might be thinking, how humane is it to microwave a live lobster? The Lobster Institute says that lobsters don’t have complex brains or nervous systems, so they probably don’t experience “pain” as we know it.