DIY 4th of July
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Absolutely. It’s far more likely with a fork, but deep enough or well placed scratches/gouges on a spoon could create the condition.
It's unlikely period. Electroboom did a video on it and had one hell of a hard time getting any metal to arc in the microwave, even balled up aluminum foil.
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It's unlikely period. Electroboom did a video on it and had one hell of a hard time getting any metal to arc in the microwave, even balled up aluminum foil.
Well that just doesnt make sense, theres only been a couple times ive accidentally put metal in a microwave, but i knew it immediately when i did. I wonder if theyve made changes to the way they function.
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Yep, I have microwaved plenty of tea and coffee with the spoon in it.
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Yep, I have microwaved plenty of tea and coffee with the spoon in it.
Spoon or not, I'm told this is a sin.
Perhaps including silver purifies the act.
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What's those balls on the plate?
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What's those balls on the plate?
Ligma balls
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Comically enough, many spoons put in the microwave would be fine. Not recommending you try it, but the issue comes from arcs. And spoons don't have areas where arcs can occur naturally, like a fork.
I microwave my coffee with a spoon in it every morning at work, it's fine
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Spoon or not, I'm told this is a sin.
Perhaps including silver purifies the act.
If you mean like, by the standpoint of coffee purists, then idgaf, it's shitty tasting make brain go fast water, there is no way to ruin it, how can something that tastes like shit taste more shit? It can't
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If you mean like, by the standpoint of coffee purists, then idgaf, it's shitty tasting make brain go fast water, there is no way to ruin it, how can something that tastes like shit taste more shit? It can't
I don't drink coffee and rarely tea, so you won't get any argument from me.
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Comically enough, many spoons put in the microwave would be fine. Not recommending you try it, but the issue comes from arcs. And spoons don't have areas where arcs can occur naturally, like a fork.
https://youtu.be/OyTmJX_TC84
Here's a YouTube video of a guy actively trying to make arcs. -
Well that just doesnt make sense, theres only been a couple times ive accidentally put metal in a microwave, but i knew it immediately when i did. I wonder if theyve made changes to the way they function.
There has been no change in the way microwaves work aside from circuit board and adding an inverter to control the power of the microwaves. Microwaves function the same as a laser pointer except the emit photons with a frequency of 2.45GHz.
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If you mean like, by the standpoint of coffee purists, then idgaf, it's shitty tasting make brain go fast water, there is no way to ruin it, how can something that tastes like shit taste more shit? It can't
Lol, gottem
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What's those balls on the plate?
Either magnets or ball bearings. Most probably the magnets.
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Try it outside in your backyard.
try it in your neighbor's backyard, the one without a camera? there. for deniability.
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Ligma balls
lmao gottem
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Sure it's terrifying, but you can start a sparky plasma show in a resilient enough container and keep it going for hours and the microwave won't break. (except maybe overheat.) The microwave will be fine as long as the arcs don't reach the waveguide cover. (which would risk burning/shorting the magnetron.)
I have done the microwave grape plasma trick myself and started an arc in a microwave. The current between the two objects goes through a very narrow point, which is enough vaporize the contact point to plasma. This then can grow as the microwave continues to pump more energy into the spark.
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Comically enough, many spoons put in the microwave would be fine. Not recommending you try it, but the issue comes from arcs. And spoons don't have areas where arcs can occur naturally, like a fork.
I learned this by accident while heating up some hot cocoa as a kid, haha!
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Either magnets or ball bearings. Most probably the magnets.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nah, even weak magnets bunch up really easy, at least to make a solid sheet with noticable crystaline-like deformities being the only exception to a contiguous layout.
Those balls are sitting way too loosely with way too many random gaps to even possibly be magnetized.
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Sure it's terrifying, but you can start a sparky plasma show in a resilient enough container and keep it going for hours and the microwave won't break. (except maybe overheat.) The microwave will be fine as long as the arcs don't reach the waveguide cover. (which would risk burning/shorting the magnetron.)
I have done the microwave grape plasma trick myself and started an arc in a microwave. The current between the two objects goes through a very narrow point, which is enough vaporize the contact point to plasma. This then can grow as the microwave continues to pump more energy into the spark.
You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave's lining. Don't recommend if it's an appliance ya care about.
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To my understanding, the arcing is caused by hard edges. E.g. all the elections could be at the end of a fork's tines, and EM field forces them to jump to another tine instead of going through the root of the fork.
Since spoons are rounded, they don't need to jump. I don't think the material plays much of a role in arcing other than providing resistance. They would heat up, but they'd melt before they arc. Still, they can arc from one spoon to another spoon when there multiple spoons close enough.
EM fields concentrate from the edges, like how magnetic field lines concentrate around a paperclip hanging from a magnet. It's not about charged particles being able to retreat, but that the EM field will straight up be stronger in those areas.
