non-food things in the microwave

[da]

OK, I was curious. So I just googled around. Yes, lots of pages suggest it's fine to put staples in microwaves. Mostly recipes. But this guy says otherwise, and I believe him because his page is called "UNWISE MICROWAVE OVEN EXPERIMENTS." Oh, and he's an electrical engineer and he wraps his explanations on microwave ball-lightning and explosions in very expert-sounding detail. Fascinating site.

Anyway, he says stapled paper bags in microwaves cause fires. So that's it for me.

...To follow up something else bats22 told me recently, ivory soap has interesting properties in the microwave. You end up with a big puffy thing that hardens, and is still soap.

I'm so going to try that.

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Re: non food things in microwaves, other stuff

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Sorry! It's more an indictation of where my brain is with a 4 month old than of me trying to fix other peoples' problems, but the first thing I thought upon reading that was "but the nutrients! the nutrients will melt away!"

It was also about 2 minutes after going to microwave some water to soak a bottle of breastmilk so we could practise while I took a shower, and first thing in the morning on top of that...

now back to your regularly scheduled journal. (though the mommy in me also wants to say to da_lj, "as soon as melted_snowball leaves, you try wrecking the microwave! We can't leave you alone for a minute!")

Re: non food things in microwaves, other stuff

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

though the mommy in me also wants to say...

But Mooommmm....

*points*

he said it would be OK.

...Heh. No problems. Soap doesn't explode. It just goes boof.

I'll post photos later. :)