Date:         Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:22:52 +0300
Reply-To:     Janne Ruohomäki <janne.ruohomaki@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Janne Ruohomäki <janne.ruohomaki@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
Comments: To: Rob <becida@comcast.net>
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> The egg caused the door to blow open on a modern microwave oven and
> break a latch in the process?  Any thoughts this Friday?

Yesyes.. Tried this intentionally some decades ago when I was kid and
we got our first microwave oven. I didnt manage to break this now
antique oven. It served well some 10 years after that. It is quite
amazing how hard one ordinary chicken egg can blow. Theres still egg
stains in the kitchen side of the fireplace at my parents house, as
the door blew open pretty hard. Luckily the oven was installed in a
corner so that the door hit the wall and there was minimal strain to
the hinges of the door.

I challenge someone to try ostrich egg in a microwave oven. That
should do wonders on structures of the oven.  No wait! Someone already
did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMM7s5RRqT4

Also, when I was teenager I tried this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWU5spKzLj4

But mine was with hydrogen + oxygen mixture, 2:1. I bet mine was
stronger than this. Needles to say the oven didnt pass this test.

Once I heated water in a pint made out of really thick glass several
times up to the boiling point. I was watching TV while it heated and
forgot about it for a while. When I came to the oven it had shut down
while ago already, and I wanted boiling water. So I set it running
again for couple of minutes several times. When I finally managed to
take the pint out it was bubbling from the slightest disturbance. This
should have told me not to proceed with the next step: I poured one
big spoonful of cocoa powder to the water. All at once with strong
whip.

*POFFF!* - The water and cocoa said when they met and rushed in to the
ceiling. Wetting my face on the way. It didnt feel like hot, but it
sure was and I put my face under the kitchen faucet. Burned more than
half of my face, cheeks, forehead, nose. I dont know how, but my eyes
were closed.  There was few drops of clean water left in the pint. No
cocoa, anywhere else but up in the ceiling.They gave me morphine at
the hospital later. Theres still cocoa stains in the wooden kitchen
ceiling at my parents house.

So be careful with those microwaves! They may not be so innocent we
all have been told.