Microwaves

[Whaleboy]

About 10 minutes ago, I cooked myself dinner. I've had the house to myself for most of this month so there are days when I cant really be bothered to cook. Today is one of those days. I raided the freezer and found this cod fillet in cheese sauce, in a plastic back ready for microwaving.

Put it on a plastic plate and shoved it in. Forgot to ***** the bag. About 3 minutes later I was posting on Apolyton, when I heard an almighty pop. The bag had exploded, and little bits of cod fillet and cream cheese were all over the microwave.

This is the latest in a long series of incidents with me and the microwave, including a whole egg (which also exploded), and a cucumber (experimentation you understand).

Any other interesting stories? I havent tried anything metal, as that would be just stupid.

[Sava]

Forgot to ***** the bag

hmmm... I don't know what kind of sick sexual food fetishes you Northampton's have...

[Lorizael]

If an action is censored on this site, I do not think it would be wise to perform whatever action it is on a bag.

Edit: Damn you Sava... I was too slow.

[Whaleboy]

sorry, it was meant to be p r i c k with a fork but the censors obviously being puritanical today!

[Whaleboy]

I don't know what kind of sick... fetishes you Northampton's have

You want to talk to Drogue about that one! I'm relatively normal for this town!

[mrmitchell]

Never microwave anything with a sealed container. Water will escape from the food, turn into steam, and build up pressure in the bag.

[Dis]

yup, all food has some water content. well almost all food I can think of.

[Whaleboy]

Dissident: You are correct, all food. Its how microwaves work, the actual waveform uses the water molecule like a magnet, hydrogren and oxygen being at opposite ends, and opposite charges. It results in each molecule rotating, causing friction and thus heat.

[Neutrino]

It takes about 8.5 seconds to kill a cockroach in my microwave -- well at least that's how long it takes it to stop moving

[geeslaka]

I'll tell what's happened to me when I stop laughing.

[mrmitchell]

Neutrino:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_025.html

[Neutrino]

lol

[geeslaka]

Alright, I'm done laughing now.

When I was 6-7, I would put hot dogs (small cylinders of meat(?) roughly 1/2" x 4-5") in until they split down the center.
More recently, I put a cube of butter in for what I thought was the right time and it came out still frozen, except for a couple holes drilled through it.

[Dis]

cockroaches in the microwave

we were always wanting to put some cockroaches in the reactor compartment on the Enterprise. We never got around to doing that

[TCO]

you can put metal in the microwave as long as it has no sharp edges. Lots of TV dinners and such have foil sheilding for different compartments. And the popcorn bags you use have a metal film in the paper. That is what heats up.