Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave

Tom writes "Everyday objects can produce interesting effects when you stick them in a standard microwave. Grapes spark, matches create superheated plasma fireballs, mini lightning-bolts arc between sheets of aluminum foil, and soap both splits open and puffs up, creating a somewhat vulgar spurt of bubbly excrement that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. However, as cool as microwave experimentation can be, balls of plasma and the like are bad for both your eyes and your microwave, so it's probably best not to try these things at home. update This site apparently is behind a really nasty popup that I missed (yay Firefox) the first time through. You've been warned... here it is but given the overall rottenness of the pop-up, I guess I wouldn't bother. Some folks know no shame. My apologies to the readers.

alt.ftsoj

[suso]

What? No kitty cat?

Food Fight

[Doc Ruby]

I take a ripe 1" cherry tomato, insert a wooden toothpick into about the center, and put it on high for about 1-2min. The tomato launches the toothpick across the microwave.

So then I take 20 1" cherry tomatoes, insert toothpicks, arrange them in ranks facing each other at the range of the tested shots, and cook my favorite "tomatoes battle royale".

I'd love to see someone video that to YouTube, maybe with some other characters inserted into the battlefield. Like grapes injected with rubbing alcohol, which will boil and burst faster than the watery tomatoes shoot.

Instructions for superheated plasma fireballs...

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Microwave one of those Hungyman "Beef" Taco dinners with potato wedges for approx 10 minutes.
2. Eat said Hungryman dinner.
3. In approx 40-120 superheated plasma fireballs should start expressing themselves out your posterior.
4. Change underwear as needed.

Microwave

[also-rr]

When I first read this story I was inspired. I tried placing a microwave inside a larger microwave.

There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.

IS IT STILL 1995?

[quonsar]

is Mr. T done eating my balls?

Re:Spam

[Joebert]

I was taken to another site where it said I had to order a plasma screen TV just to watch the vid

Well, we can't have you watching such entertaining videos on some inferior non-plasma tv now can we ?
Come on, this is Super Heated Plasma Fireballs we're talking about here, it's only fitting that they're watched on a vision re-production device capable of understanding the concept of Plasma, isn't it ?
Being a member of Slashdot, I expect you to be rather smart, hell, I bet you're A Nuke-u-lar Scientist, am I right ?
Well then, you more than most should understand that a screen capable of using Plasma, will be best for reproducing the effects of the video.
Do you remember early TV sets & the snow effect ?
Of course you do, what if I told you that if you buy this TV, you wouldn't even need to get that video ? You could just turn this puppy on & stare at the screen, BAM, instant Plasma video & you didn't even have to waste your time downloading a video off the internet.

So, will that be Visa or Mastercard ?

Re:Microwave

[NormalVisual]

And now you can really put Prince Albert in a can.

Fun Mr Wizard experiment

[edwardpickman]

Place a six inch ball of pultonium wrapped in one inch of plactic expolsives in microwave. Heat on high until plutonium atoms fuse.

Re:Microwave

[WilliamSChips]

Don't you know? The Royal Family are WEREWOLVES!

Re:alt.ftsoj

[KingOfBLASH]

Would you like white meat or dark meat with your Thanksgiving dinner?

2001 called...

[Klaidas]

They want their fun science back :)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microw ave+brainiac [youtube.com]
Ah well. Slow news days happen, don't they?

Re:Grapes

[ScrewMaster]

Haven't you ever heard of ... sparkling white wine?

Re:Which Halo is better?

[ScrewMaster]

A much better question, and more importantly, one that is actually relevant to this thread, would be "what happens when you put an operating XBox into a microwave?" We really need an answer to this question, so if you would be so kind as to perform the experiment and post a link to the video here on Slashdot we would greatly appreciate it. You'll get extra credit points if the machine is playing Halo 2 at the time. Don't worry about your girlfriend's reaction, she obviously just bought the machine to get you to stay at her place for more than five minutes and will soon get over the loss.

Re:Microwave

[horati0]

When I first read this story I was inspired. I tried placing a microwave inside a larger microwave.

There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.

David Lynch called. He wants the idea for his next movie back.

Re:Microwave

[multisync]

There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family

That's just Charles, shrunk down to tampon size for Camilla

Web 0.2

[DJRikki]

obvious_joke_about_vintage_webpage++;

Aye!

[no-body]

as you wish - slashdotting the popup, it's already slow....

Pop-up?

[Digital Dharma]

I use IE 7. Never even saw a popup. Perhaps the poster should switch?

Re:Green Olives

[digerata]

That's it! I kept thinking palmolive instead.

Re:Food Fight

[kfg]

. . .it'll probably take months before I have the time to spend a half-day having a blast with this little feature.

Prioritize, Dude. Prioritize!

KFG

Re:Spam

[tylernt]

Come on, this is Super Heated Plasma Fireballs we're talking about here, it's only fitting that they're watched on a vision re-production device capable of understanding the concept of Plasma, isn't it ?

So... what if yout put a plasma TV in a microwave?

The universe as we know it might implode.

Re:Spam

[Joebert]

The universe as we know it might implode.

Perhaps, but not in the sense I believe you're thinking of.
You see, I payed alot of money for this State Of The Art Plasma TV, actually, I'll be paying for it about the same length of time I'll be paying for my house when you figure in intrest & fees.
So yes, if you put it in the microwave, the universe as you know it, will cease to exist, aka, implode. :)