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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non food things in microwaves, other stuff

[fairiegodmother.livejournal.com]

Metallics bad. Even things you wouldn't expect, like baby bottles with a dab of paint on them. I caused a kitchen fire and nuked a microwave oven 21 years ago warming up a kid's bottle. It had been painted with a little flower, using paint that probably went with model cars. The flower was a delicate little thing, no more than 3/4" tall, in red and green. The resulting light show in the kitchen was hellaciously large, with lightning, ozone, smoke, fire, and a largish hole burned through the top of the oven.

I killed the other one by spilling a bowl of pennies that had been left on top of the microwave. Some of them fell into the thingie on the back.

Have also nuked the keypads on two Sharp Microwave ovens in a row, because my right hand gives off so much energy. I also melt keyboards. 7 in a row, all on the right side.

When I've not blowing up microwave ovens or otherwise rendering them useless, I like to put Peeps in them. You know, those horrible pastel colored marshmallow things that look like chicks and bunnies? They blow up real good.

Fairie G

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

I'm so going to try that.

In your own microwave!?

[thingo.livejournal.com]

Wait. It blows up and just becomes a larger piece of soap? I'll never run out of soap again! Isn't this a practical example of the Banach-Tarski paradox?