Banjos make everything better.

It's the Daily Fail here to explain that things expand in heat, sometimes catastrophically. Thank you.

They pointed out that even eggs out of their shell with pierced yolks could explode when microwaved.

Even if they are already cooked.

Working at a Friendly's and one morning one of my regulars asks for a hard-boiled egg, but wants it warm. Hard-boiled eggs come pre-cook/-packaged -- OK, "pre-packaged" makes it sound nicer than it is, as they come in a multi-gallon bucket -- as they are intended to be used for egg salad, salad toppings, etc. I decide to be nice and pop a small bowl of water into the microwave, nuke it, then put the cold egg into the water and nuke that. Figured that'd be safe.

Timer dings, I pull the egg-bowl out of the microwave -- it was one of those with a dropdown door, rather than a swings sideways type -- and I pause to look at the egg: the yolk looks like a hug, dark grey blister within the egg. I have just enough time to glance down at the thing and say "What the--" when it explodes, showering my face with eggy bits.

:/

"A CD on the verge of shattering into pieces"
No, no it isn't...

I discovered the perfect egg bomb, although I doubt it would be easy to replicate. Years ago, I hard boiled an egg conventionally, in its shell in a pot of boiling water. I then peeled the shell off, and it still felt a little bit soft (I don't like runny yolks), so I decided to microwave it to harden it up a bit. I knew the warnings about piecing foods with "skins", but figured it would split apart in the microwave. After microwaving it (maybe a minute?), I took it out of the oven, and the egg was moving around in the bowl I had placed it in, kind of making little "jumps". I showed it to a couple of family members as a "whoa, isn't this bizarre" kind of moment. I even carefully turned it over with my fingers. So by this time, it was out of the microwave for at least a couple of minutes. I went to use it, and as soon as I touched a sharp knife to the egg surface, there was a LOUD BANG, and the next thing I know, I've got egg on my face (literally), as well as the kitchen walls and ceiling. Apparently, when I had peeled the egg, the "inner membrane" of the eggshell had remained intact on the egg, and this membrane managed to hold in every joule of energy the microwave delivered to it until the moment the knife pierced the membrane. Thankfully I wear glasses, so was not not seriously injured (though had some minor "yolk burns" on my forehead). If these conditions could be replicated, it would make for a great assassination tool - death by breakfast!

But will that stuff blend?

Wow. A commercial for Moe's crappy eatery. Funny how this doesn't make me want to eat there any more than 60 seconds ago.

Bold fail.

One keen individual has succumbed to the curiosity, testing out a host of items that ranged from eggs and tomatoes to music CDs and light bulbs.
The footage was uploaded onto YouTube and reveals the devastating effect once the appliance was switched on.



One keen individual? It's a commercial for "Moe's".

I thought everyone tried some of these before they were 10

whats pink and explodes?

a baby in a microwave/

I remember this .... when everyone else did it.

ooo, ooo, what happens when you put a marshmellow in a vacuum chamber??

Amateurs. These guys are pros. (new window)

I'm just a cook.




My dumb ass nephews ran an extension cord to the end of the driveway and plugged a microwave into it, put random shiat in it and ran like hell.

Their well thought out plan ended in a small fire.


Inside the house, where the damn thing was plugged in.

Next up in the Daily Fail... Things But Very Slowly.

It blowed up real good (new window)

Link (new window)

Furby, lights, marshmallows, styrofoam, more...

CSB? In 1979 I bought my first home which included a new-fangled Amana microwave built into the kitchen wall. At the 'house-warming' debauch one of my drunken buddies was showing off how he could catch a housefly in flight. He caught one, eventually, and, in one of those moments of synchronicity we all yelled, "The Microwave!" And so the little Musca domestica was tossed in and given 30 seconds.



Nada. Zilch. We opened the door and out he flew.

We wished him well and prayed that he would never reproduce....

Dave

I can't compete with the egg stories... the best I have is that I once made the mistake of heating up a mug of water in the microwave (so far, so good) and then added a scoop of instant coffee. Think "diet coke + mentos", only scalding hot and not directed into a narrow stream. About half of the mug's contents ended up on the counter or the floor. On the plus side, the incident did wake me up about as effectively as the caffeine would have.

They must have been watching returreruns of Brainiac. They did all that and much more.

I was ten when we purchased our first (giant) microwave. When it came time to cook the first hot dog, I remember this conversation:

"How long do you think it will take to do a hot dog?"

"Oh, maybe three minutes? It'll be quick!"

The result is what Keith Richards' willy might have looked like after 10 straight days being awake, partying at Studio 54...

No Peep jousting?

girhen: Link (new window)

Furby, lights, marshmallows, styrofoam, more...

At ~5:40 I just went :D

If you've never microwaved a CD or a grape in the dark, you're missing out.

grapes are fun, too

Probably three weeks into my first office job, they hired a former Marine who wanted to impress everyone with his Marine-ness and showed up with an MRE for everyone in the office. This not being enough, he took the magnesium sulfate from whatever container it's normally in - they apparently use this to heat the meal - and made a bomb out of it in a plastic Mountain Dew bottle.

He never said a word, just set it about four feet from my desk on a little table. I had no idea anything was wrong until I happened to notice that the top of it had swollen to almost twice its normal size. I ducked back behind my computer screen just before the thing went off. It was so damn loud. The room was probably 1,300 square feet, with 15-foot high ceilings, but the whole place was coated in magnesium sulfate powder.

Good thing I ducked behind my computer screen - there was I guess what you would call a blast pattern on either side of it where the powder had shot past.

Get this: they didn't fire him. The boss stomped around and shouted for a while, and the guy got written up, but that was about it.

no explosions to report here yet,. but i do have a microwave story...

once upon a time, about a year ago, a friend came over to borrow a tool, and i was doing the curious act of removing the magnets from speakers,. and loading them into a rock tumbler to be turned to powder. when asked what i was doing, i told him i was making a microwave crucible for melting pewter. upon hearing this MR enginering student himself informed me that microwaves could not heat up metal. i ploped a bit of the speaker magnet into the microwave, gave it 10 seconds, and told him to grab it.

yes, he screamed, yes, it was quite quite hot. and yes, he learned that ferrite (speaker magent) and microwaves play very well together.

yellowcat: He closed the mouse in the micro and decided to see what happened. With about 5 of use around to watch, he set the timer for 2 minutes. After about 25 seconds the mouse went "SQUEAK" and fell over.

Gerbils, on the other hand, will taunt and insult you (new window).

Crackers Are a Family Food: 66dude: Amateurs. These guys are pros. (new window)

Also came to see this.

Remember, kids - microwaves and airbags don't mix.

That was a good one from the series, but my favorite was this one.