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Boom Book
Tasty and explosive microwave recipes | |
Capitalize on tasty microwave
recipes
that
explode in the microwave for effect,
mixing or timing. The book gives
tips
on how to prevent them from
messing up your microwave or
atleast how to clean up after them
better.
I have actual recipes like...
Cheese Eggs-plosion Omelette
Sausage
Soup Kaboom
Nuclear S'mores
Grape plasma
http://c3po.barneso...ge/lpl/grapeplasma/
Don't blame me if it all goes horribly wrong... [saker, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Hot water
http://news.bbc.co....ornwall/3035606.stm
Sorry. This is really grim, but I mean it as a caution. [saker, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) Hot Lava
http://volcano.und....3/question1585.html
Not sure what the above scalding water link has to do with this idea. But even worse that hot water is burning HOT LAVA! What if you stuck your hand in THAT??!! [bungston, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Over heating a rock in the microwave doesn't make much
mess when it explodes. It also makes less of a boom and
more of a BAM!, when it violently cleaves in half. |
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You put a rock in the microwave?
A CD is more interesting to
watch. 7-10 seconds is all you
need, along with good ventilation. |
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Unfortunatley, [sartep], I did. Thankfully, no one got hurt!
I had previously explained to my children that blue topaz
is commonly produced from microwaving yellow citrine.
Some time later my daughter inspired me with her
thoughtful questions about microwaving common rock, so,
I proposed we test *her* hypothesis. I think she had been
hoping for a little rocks-to-riches magic. |
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I am looking forward to microwaving a CD. Thanks for the
tip. |
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By the way, I think this could be a hit with the mad
kitchen-scientist crowd! |
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Take a new glass Bodoum (sp?) mug. Clean thoroughly and wipe with alcohol. Fill with distilled/ demineralised water. Microwave till almost boiling. |
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Add freeze-dried instant coffee power. |
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Water will boil explosively, showering vvvv hot scalding water all over. |
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Lesson (1) Microwaving water that has nothing to seed bubbles will achieve superheating. Adding coffee powder which has a large surface area will allow the water to boil instantly. |
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Lesson (2) Playing with microwaves will send you to the ER. |
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Try this at home. I did, and it actually worked. Inspirational. |
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Don't try this at home. Don't even read this if you are at all squeamish. It's a cautionary tale of the hazards of hot water. You have been warned. |
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Is there any food that DOESN'T explode in the microwave?
That will be a useful book. + |
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101 ways to blow up your micro-wave. |
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Microwave Door Remover
Req'd: One raw egg in shell.
1. Place egg in microwave.
2. Set timer for 5 minutes on high.
3. Run like hell. |
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Tiger Lily: you were misinformed, I think. Yellow citrine is often made by heating common or garden amethyst. Blue topaz is made by subjecting colorless topaz to ionizing radiation and heating it. While you might well try baking low value stones to make them valuable, I wouldn't recommend irradiating them in your kitchen, and I certainly wouldn't recommend messing with a stone like citrine that is already fairly valuable. You should also do it in the oven, not the microwave, so it heats up and cools down more slowly; and since there is a lot out there on the Internet about it, I'd suggest reading up on it first rather than experimenting blindly. |
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Dr. Curry is correct. Sometimes
people try to sell citrine as topaz.
Citrine being a quartz mineral is
mostly made up of SiO2, topaz is
Al 2 SiO 4 (F, OH) 3. Topaz is also
on average one level higher on the
hardness scale. |
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You are correct DrCurry. I had meant to write, "a stone that looks like a (pale) yellow citrine." |
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[sartep], You must have annotated while I was typing this up! |
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However, topaz is more valuable than citrine, hands down. Citrine and amethyst are names for two of the colors occurring in regular quartz. Both quartz and topaz are silicate based gemstones but citrine is silicon dioxide, SiO2, while topaz is an hydrous aluminum silicate, or hydroxy-flouro-aluminum silicate, Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2. |
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The part about micro-waving topaz was my over generalized and technically incorrect anecdote to explain the process of irradiation to my then 5 and 6 year old at the time. This came about because I enjoy encouraging my children to explore curiosities and also because I was once was a jeweler. |
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When proof reading my annotation, the comment probably didn't raise a flag in my brain because yellow citrine is often sold as golden topaz by unscrupulous jewelers! |
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As far as experimenting with my microwave? Absolutely! I am completely immune to the stigma of natural precious and semi-precious stones produced under current industry trends. I prefer a moderately inky, occluded, untreated emerald with a few tiny fractions and a poor man's social history compared to the dyed and resin-glued emerald-wanna-be-divas mostly found today. |
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- I am seriously thinking of trying pluterday's exploding microwave door pastime! My microwave is ten years old and the latch works occasionally while some of the plastic frame has broken off on the door assembly. I'll have my kids take it to the yard and run a 16/3 50 ft. extension to it then film from a distance. What a fun excuse to get a new one! It will also be worth every new penny come fall when school starts up again... |
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It is amusing when we type out the
same thing at the same time. |
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Definately try the CD microwaving
first. Beautiful to watch and it
makes a neat souvenir
afterwards but I don't
want to spoil what looks like. I
assure
you that it is not dangerous. |
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regular old-fashioned light bulbs are my favorite. |
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flourescent bulbs small enough to fit are a close second, though I havn't tried any of those newfangled compact ones with the built-in drivers yet. |
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Steven Seagull's patented microwave door remover: |
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1. Place coin or other metallic object in base of cup
2. Fill cup with strong alcoholic beverage, covering coin
3. Set microwave to high, many minutes
4. Kill power to room, depart.
5. Bad guys enter room, restore power
6. Hilarity ensues
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NB step 4 will only work on a microwave with a mechanical timer. |
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