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seremtan wrote:great for re-heating coffee

andyman wrote:

tnf wrote:Each year when we discuss nuclear chemistry one of the first questions I get is "do microwaves make food radioactive?" So I can vouch for there being a lot of misconceptions out there about how they work. Sometimes I just say yes and keep going without missing a step.
But I don't use them that often either, maybe microwave a bag of popcorn once every 3 months or so. The thing I hate most about microwaving frozen food is the all-too-common microwaved food that is hotter than the Sun on the outside and still frozen solid on the inside. Nothing better than biting into ice crystals at the center of a microwaved burrito that is almost too hot to touch. hehe.

You gotta put the burrito on the outside of the plate so it's not in the center which doesnt get as much power.

Foo wrote:Don't you yankees have like 9-billion-watt microwaves? Over here they top out around 1200w

plained wrote:yea plain ol logic and simple common sense!

andyman wrote:

tnf wrote:Each year when we discuss nuclear chemistry one of the first questions I get is "do microwaves make food radioactive?" So I can vouch for there being a lot of misconceptions out there about how they work. Sometimes I just say yes and keep going without missing a step.
But I don't use them that often either, maybe microwave a bag of popcorn once every 3 months or so. The thing I hate most about microwaving frozen food is the all-too-common microwaved food that is hotter than the Sun on the outside and still frozen solid on the inside. Nothing better than biting into ice crystals at the center of a microwaved burrito that is almost too hot to touch. hehe.

You gotta put the burrito on the outside of the plate so it's not in the center which doesnt get as much power.

MaCaBr3 wrote:Never for cooking, only for heating up leftovers.

seremtan wrote:great for re-heating coffee

Nightshade wrote:When I was in high school my friend's parents had a microwave and they always kept a glass of water in it. Their explanation was that they wanted something in the microwave to 'absorb the radiation and prevent a fire breaking out' if the microwave mystically turned itself on. This was something they were quite convinced could actually happen.
Did I mention that they were morons?

tnf wrote:

plained wrote:yea plain ol logic and simple common sense!

I notice you came out of character while making some posts for different things lately. Glad to see you hadn't become so enveloped in the other persona that you had forgotten how to write.

tnf wrote:

Nightshade wrote:When I was in high school my friend's parents had a microwave and they always kept a glass of water in it. Their explanation was that they wanted something in the microwave to 'absorb the radiation and prevent a fire breaking out' if the microwave mystically turned itself on. This was something they were quite convinced could actually happen.
Did I mention that they were morons?

Reminds me of a nationally syndicated alternative Christian health advocate that i heard on the radio once and decided to check their website out. This lady was selling things that you put in your refrigerator to 'reverse the negative left-wise spin of the electrons thereby negating the harmful effects of pesticides.' I emailed the lady to ask, irrespective of whether or not reversing 'electron spin' (which really isn't spin as we think of it) would help your health, do they have any data that shows their product does indeed reverse said spin. Apparently I was just a victim of the current dogma that hinders healthcare and prevents us from letting God and science really help us. I still have the email conversation somewhere..it was quite funny.