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in case anyone doesn't know, microwaving metal objects is extremely dangerous
wish i knew this 30 minutes ago
You should also not try microwaving CDs
I just gave up my age didn't I? Everyone going like what's a CD? Wrong answers only.
I, too, am old enough to remember Cuneiform Diagrams (CDs)
Last weekend I found that my original floppies for Eye of the Beholder II are still perfectly usable. Now get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper.
did you know your phone charges faster in the microwave?
i wish i knew this before i destroyed yet another microwave
It's not "extremely" dangerous. I've been microwaving food and drinks with cutlery in them for years without incident. In some respects it's even better than without (more even heating of foods, not having drinks explode in the microwave when too hot). From my experience and online video watching, only metals with sharp-ish edges or micro-ridges pose any kind of danger (e.g. crumpled aluminium, CDs).
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Sounds a little dangerous.
This is jus a meme, so i wouldnt actually do this, but i accidentally miked a spoon once and was surprised when it didnt spark. Looked it up and turns out it needs to be metal and lik sharp edges for it arch across. So exposed fork BAD exposed spoon meh
I hear that depends on the microwave. Ours will spark with a spoon, where as my parents in law won't.
How you fit your parents in law in microwave?
A piece at a time
skilfully
Just wire the knives into the transformer of the microwave
And place three cans of hairspray in between them.
its actually not. You need something the size of at least half the wavelength of the microwave, or multiples of it. Thats why forks and aluminium foil spark a lot (they have "antennas" that allow for charge separation through the microwave and if two of those separated charges are in close proximity a spark is formed).
But if you have one single "antenna" like in a knife or spoon, no part of large charge separation is close enough for a spark.
However if you dont know about this you better not put anything metallic or conductive into the microwave.
We had a microwave in highschool we used to throw shit into to see what happened. CDs were good.
Incandescent light bulbs are the best
Don't try to microwave 2 knives at the same time.
Also, don't use too much time, and be careful picking it up.
So yeah, there are enough warnings that I wouldn't recommend it. The last one in particular is a real issue.
It can also arc with the wall of the microwave
Burning your house down will soften that butter right up.
Did all commenters get whooshed?
Get a butter bell! No more cold hard butter.
I don't need to turn my butter into a tamagotchi. I can barely take care of myself.
I love my Le Creuset butter bell, but since going GF I hardly use it anymore.
Game. Changed. Wish I had known about those things before I went adulting for 30 years.
Anyone looking for one, the Butter Bell brand is stupid expensive, go generic, they all work.
Yes. Any box with a loose lid will do.
The traditional "smørtine" my great grandparents used for this purpose is just a wooden box with a loose lid that they painted fancy.
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Just hold the knife under hot tap water for 10 seconds, dry it after though.
I always think about ElectroBoom purposely trying to make a microwave fail catastrophically with metal objects in it, and what he found was that unless it had some kind of jagged edge or narrow points (like a cut up can or a fork as opposed to an unopened can or a spoon), nothing happened.
Balling up tinfoil barely did anything. A fork would cause sparks off the ends of the tines. I think he eventually got a fire started in there but it took effort to make it happen.
Meanwhile, I put a whole potato in mine not even covered in foil and that fucker sparks and catches fire like a mofo.
Put the knife blade under your toaster or hold it over top while toasting.
Better to microwave a mug of water and soak the knife in it for a minute
make sure you soak it in wood first.
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Just wave the butter, man
Start your day with a challenge: keep it in the fridge
You can also put it on car battery connecting the terminals. That'll heat it up.
Life hacks
I never had an issue cutting cold butter with a room temperature knife, wtf. Do y'all take it out of the freezer or something?
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Why not just microwave the butter?
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Why not just microwave the toast?
We have this old glass square tray thing with a glass cover that we use. We leave the butter out and it's spreads great. We live in quite a cold climate (extreme North of Scotland), so it's ideal. Perhaps not the best idea in Dubai...
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Hot water in a glass put the knife in glass for a minute wipe it clean use it?
“Don’t put metal in the science oven!”
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