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| Thread ID: 117359 | 2011-04-15 00:03:00 | How not to heat baked beans in a microwave... | BBCmicro (15761) | PC World Chat |
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| 1194687 | 2011-04-15 00:51:00 | I remember my ex Wife put some food in a microwave on fancy plates that have gold metallic paint on them. Sparks flying. :) | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1194688 | 2011-04-15 00:52:00 | You didn't really expect any sympathy from this lot, did you? :lol: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1194689 | 2011-04-15 00:57:00 | Well at least it makes your life exciting huh? | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1194690 | 2011-04-15 01:01:00 | Wot a cool story! Reminds me of the days when I deliberately caused explosions instead of accidently! | Greg (193) | ||
| 1194691 | 2011-04-15 01:18:00 | I put a Chinese bowl in a microwave as a kid, forgetting it had a metal rim. Gave off quite an impressive fireworks show....my parents were not impressed however. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1194692 | 2011-04-15 02:00:00 | Sympathetic lot, aren't they? :lol: I know someone who read about not putting a whole egg into the microwave, so he did, unshelled and all, to see what would happen. psssst...don't try this at home, or anywhere else, for that matter. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1194693 | 2011-04-15 02:08:00 | Sympathetic lot, aren't they? :lol: I know someone who read about not putting a whole egg into the microwave, so he did, unshelled and all, to see what would happen. psssst...don't try this at home, or anywhere else, for that matter. He most likely learned the hard way that eggs make a hell of a mess in a microwave. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1194694 | 2011-04-15 02:23:00 | No problem with the microwave, but it was a task to rid the kitchen of tell-tale charcoal before Mrs Micro got home... You sure? It can damage them. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1194695 | 2011-04-15 02:53:00 | I'm fairly sure the MW is not damaged - it cooks rice in the same time (and I weigh everything to 2g accuracy) The dangers of having metal in the microwave are overstated. I always leave a metal stirring spoon in my morning oatbran. If I take it out I've got to put it somewhere and it causes a mess. If I were young again, I would do a school science project on "The Dangers Of Your Microwave Oven" with the idea of scaring the wits out of the mothers who visit the science fair! One of the "dangers" would be getting big sparks out of aluminium foil. Another would be as follows: I would get an old microwave and wedge a plastic bottle 20% full of water sideways above the plate. The wedging is to prevent the top coming off. I'd set it going in a field 50 m away, with my video camera on high zoom watching the plate go around. How long would I wait? For as long as it takes! It doesn't matter if the microwave is so old it is down to 20% of its rated power. Eventually something will happen... I can imagine the mothers visiting the science fair looking at the wreckage and tut tutting about how dangerous kitchens are. The label next to the smashed metal would say something innocent like "This is what can happen when you heat water in your microwave" Hahahahaha...! |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1194696 | 2011-04-16 09:51:00 | Can we at Pressf1, put your name forward for the Darwin awards? Ken :devil :clap |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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