Disclaimer: After reading the below article, DO NOT attempt anything discussed. For your safety, it is recommended that you are put under general anesthesia and undergo major surgery to shock you into forgetting everything you have read. The blog "Nathan" is in no way responsible for your stupidity. Nathan is responsible for his own stupidity. For the safety of all of your neighbors within a 10-block radius, it is recommended that you keep portions VERY small if you are actually stupid enough to try these.
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Good. In my trolling, I discovered the website microwavecam.com. The Microwave cam staff boldly explore the ever fascinating recesses of microwaving things that should not be microwaved. I decided to list a few of the things that they did, and the effects of the microwaves.
1. Soap: Wow, this one expands like shaving cream, though much more slowly. Even a third of a bar can easily be just as wide as the turntable.
Rating: Messy
2. Grapes: This is a great one! The electrolytes within the grapes are bombarded by microwaves until a few try to switch their polarity. When this happens, the grape, which is cut almost in half, with just a little skin "bridge" in between the pieces, starts conducting the microwaves from one hunk to the other across the skin bridge. This generates a select combination of heat, electricity, and radiaton, which, in turn, creates plasma. The plasma usually shoots out from the skin bridge like a flamethrower. Some of the staff at microwave cam actually caught some plasma in a shot glass.
Rating: Microwave-meltingly dangerous.
3. Floam: The Floam, unfortunately, soon loses it's self-cohesion and your ability to form it into obscene shapes. Rather, it becomes sticky to everything but itself.
Rating: Messy
4. LEDs: These unexpectedly catch fire, rather than sparking, and need to be put out, but not before they become a pile of black ash. They burn very quickly.
Rating: Risky
5. Arby's signature sauce (packet): Like most condiments, the Arby's sauce simply expands until it bursts.
Rating:Messy
6. BBQ Sauce (From Burger King): This one very quickly bursts at the corners, leaking oozing barbecue sauce out.
Rating: Messy
7. Mustard (packet): This one explodes also, albeit with a significantly more powerful pop.
Rating: Messy
8. Marshmallow Peeps in a container: Its wonderful to watch these little guys swell. Their faces become pressed against something, and one eye travels toward the top of their container as the other melts. This is especially fun in squirt bottles and baskets.
Rating: Messy
9. Marshmallow peeps by themselves: They swell up faster than a rat infected with the plague, and burst very much like the rat too.
Rating: Messy
10. Glow sticks: The microwave cracks the inner membranes and lights the sticks off, but eventually they develop squirting leaks, oozing phosphorescent liquid.
Rating: Potentially Dangerous
11. Twinkie: This favorite treat betrays its strange, fattening chemical origins in the nuking machine. The white stuffing oozes out and turns into a liquid that looks like and is just as clear as water, while the cake part becomes what looks like butterscotch pudding.
Rating: Messy
12. Snack pack of pudding: As the pudding and gas inside the packet expands, it finds a weak spot in the foil cover and squirts out like a little fountain. Interestingly, the chocolate pudding becomes a red liquid when heated for a while in the microwave. Unfortunately, this cool, and the liquid, which probably ran all over, becomes pudding again.
Rating: Extremely messy
13. Classic CD: The CD sparks and has visible shocks run along its length. Most people have done this themselves, though, so you should know the finer details.
Rating: Potentially Dangerous
14. CD in a CD case: This one, on the other hand, is one that most people have not done. The electricity and shocks formed on the surface of the CD can not dissipate like they would normally, because the case encapsulates them in a wall of static. As a result, the CD catches a slow flame and burns.
Rating: Risky
"Microwave Cam special":The crazies at Microwave cam top off their previous record of disregard for safety with this one. They slit the bottom of a mayonnaise packet and injects it with electrolytes, then splay it across four hidden magnets. Covered in a beaker, the volatile experiment generates plasma, shooting out from under the beaker and melting the microwave's ceiling, until one bolt of plasma is caught in the beaker and sustained for several seconds. Wow. Watch it here.
Rating: Microwave-meltingly dangerous
Explosive Plasma: This is the strangest and most dangerous one of all. By microwaving a lit candle placed under a glass cup, and with the microwave emitter "funneled" (I'm not sure how they do it or what it specifically does), the candle is vaporised into plasma that is explosive. As long as the microwave is on, the plasma is sustained, but the moment it shuts off, the plasma loses stability, and it's own sheer heat makes it explode.
Rating: Life-threateningly dangerous
What are they? LED throwies are little self-powered packs that have an LED, a battery, and a magnet. Because of this, they are portable, easy to make, and look cool. Plus, they are a great, simple thing for me to try to make. 