Things that you shouldn’t put in a microwave

Kippers. Never EVER put kippers in the microwave.

One of the kitchens in my old block at work, someone left a fish based dish in for 10 times as long as it needed (knocked the 0 button once too often i guess) the whole office space stank of burnt fish for about a month, and you could still smell it some days, over 6 months later. There are around 300 desks per office space. 300 people had to live with that for months.

We aren’t allowed to put fish in office kitchen microwaves anymore. It still happens.

>The magnetron is the microwave-creation bit
Fun fact – invented as part of efforts to make bombing the right bit of Germany at night easier.

Optimised in Birmingham (the UK one) for the detection of incoming Germans, but invented multiple times, several years earlier by researchers working independently in USSR, Germany and Japan.

Nice history article here:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6735528

My daughter when she was about 5 or 6 decided to micrwave some Maoam sweets for some reason. That bit was fine, but she then decided to put her finger in the bubble that had formed!

Straight down to A&E with severly blistering fingers.

Yes I know I should have been parenting better but the washing needed putting away and you just don’t think they’re gonna do that sort of thing!!….

Lambs – use a traditional oven, or as we did a cardboard box in front of a fire.

My daughter when she was about 5 or 6 decided to micrwave some Maoam sweets for some reason. That bit was fine, but she then decided to put her finger in the bubble that had formed!

Straight down to A&E with severly blistering fingers.

Yes I know I should have been parenting better but the washing needed putting away and you just don’t think they’re gonna do that sort of thing

!!….

To be fair.

A. Investigating melting maoam is straight up important scinece, to be congratulated.

B. I honestly can’t say i defo wouldn’t poke a buble of maoam if it was placed infront of me.

How did the reslting blob taste?

How did the reslting blob taste?

Of skin and misadventure?

microwave on pire’, a mispronunciation a bit too close to the truth

Actual LOL there, well done.

Have we covered piss frisbees?

YouTuber cements head in microwave for prank that goes horribly wrong (usatoday.com)

Son, then about 6 (now 34)  asked if he could make his own breakfast one Sunday morning when we fancied a lie in. His favourite at the time was Weetabix in milk, warmed in the microwave and he’d watched his mum do it hundreds of times. So we said yes.

All went suspiciously quiet so I went down to the kitchen, just as the smoke alarm started beeping to be met by a cloud of the most acrid, choking, black smoke.

The dry Weetabix in the microwave was burnt to a cinder with a red glowing centre. It smelled like burning plastic and it took months to get rid of the smell. He thought he would add the milk afterwards. God knows how long he’d set if for.

Interestingly I watched a video on melting brass for casting in a microwave. That blew my mind a little as I always thought that was a huge nono.

Of skin and misadventure?

Is there any more?