I once put a gel candle in the microwave to melt the gel and a bolt of lightning struck the candle down to the little metal base and haha it actually lit the candle.
Some candles are made by starting with a flat metal base with the wick crimped to come out the perpendicularly (stiffened with a small amount of wax). This is put in the bottom of a mold and the hot wax or gel fuel poured around it. While gel fuel may absorb microwaves, paraffin wax doesn’t, so the only absorbent material is the string (usually cotton = cellulose = a very long sugar polymer), which is attached to a piece of metal. Perfect conditions for a spark to ignite the cotton, which will ignite the wax. But unless you put some food in with it, you risked reflecting the energy back into the magnetron and damaging it. Fats and ice don’t absorb microwaves, but water, proteins, carbs, and other non-fatty food materials do. That’s why frozen food instructions generally say to stir and recover about halfway through the process. The first half starts melting the ice so that the sauce or gravy CAN be stirred.
Bonus Fact 12: Because microwaves can interfere with pacemakers, all microwaves produced in the United States after October 6, 1971 must meet the FDA/CDRH requirements regulating the acceptable amount of microwave leakage. Despite this being in place, I remember people with pacemakers being told not to operate microwaves as recently as the mid-1990s--but that was due to urban legend rather than actual hard facts.
I‘ve heard that‘s why people with pacemakers shouldn’t use induction stoves either. I don’t know if that’s actually true though, I can’t imagine people dropping dead from using the wrong stove 🤔
@@Halbmond From the national institute of health "CONCLUSION: Patients are at risk if the implant is unipolar and left-sided, if they stand as close as possible to the induction cooktop, and if the pot is not concentric with the induction coil. Unipolar pacing systems can sense interference generated by leakage currents if the patient touches the pot for a long period of time. The most likely response to interference is switching to an asynchronous interference mode. Patients with unipolar pacemakers are at risk only if they are not pacemaker-dependent."
Bonus fact 2001: Eventually a video about Arthur C Clarke and his work will have 2001 bonus facts, this will be a deliberate nod to the title of one of his works of fiction.
When I was younger, I needed to dry a wire strainer, and forgetting that metal shouldn't be microwaved, I placed the strainer in the oven, with the idea that it would evaporate the droplets. Within a few seconds, electricity started to arc, upon which I started thinking, "SHIT SHIT SHIT!"
7:10 - That should be "amplitude" not "frequency", although, of course, there is no change in frequency either and yes, the "power-level" is usually changed by varying the duty-cycle or "mark-space ratio" - In other words, at anything other than "full power", the microwave oven switches on and off periodically, with longer "off" times and shorter "on" times producing low power settings whilst longer "on" times and shorter "off" times produce higher power settings.
You can't get metal into a microwave. Have you ever tried fitting an electric guitar in there? Then there's the amp, the speakers, the drums and eventually the musicians... Trust me, it's a lot more trouble than it's worth.
I would have liked a bit more explanation about which metal shapes and sizes are OK, and which are a problem. The segment on forks just starts to get to the meat of the issue.
stephen madl A faraday cage reflects radiation with very little absorption. Any holes in the cage should have their longest dimension much less than the wavelength to be stopped.
7:02 I use a phillips microwave which does properly change the power to the magnetron instead of changing the duty cycle, but that is a specific feature. It allows for defrosting and lower power cooking with fewer hot spots.
this is because 2.4 ghz (wifi) is close to the 2.45 ghz of your microwave and if your microwave was a bit wrong and had a lot of leak radiation it could have been the source of your problem
blusoldierwoman And the signal strength needed to be picked up by a receiving device and cause interference is way below the maximum allowed leakage, which is way below the level that can harm humans.
My Whirlpool Microwave (AVM 045) manual clearly states that it is ok to use multiple "small aliminium foil sheets" to cover "easy to burn" bits, like the bone end on chicken drumstick, the wings and so fourth. Also ok, (single use) aluminum forms. Warning noted in the manual. Remove the paper lid, since it has a metallic film on the inside, and expect longer cooking time. Common tip for safely boiling cups of water, especially in regions where Reverse Osmosis units are regularly used, is to put a metal spoon in the cup. De-ionized water can sometimes be superheated, and when you add anything to it, violently boil over. The spoon supposedly ionizes the water ever so slightly by giving away metal ions, causing the cup of water to safely boil in the microwave. Not sure if i believe that to be the full story, but anyhow, it's yet another safe way to use metal in your microwave...
It is not rubbing of molecules against each other which is heating up Actually the warmer molecule it is, the faster it vibrates or moves As vibration is forced upon molecules in microwave, then molecules have no choice but to become hotter P. S. To achieve absolute zero temperature you need to stop vibration of molecules
I once accidentally put metal in the microwave, I wanted to heat up my desert and forgot I'd left the spoon in the bowl. Nothing bad happened though except I almost burned myself on the hot spoon afterwards.
I accidentally put a metallic mug full of soup to the microwave once. it was there for about minute while I was away. When I came back I could see blue arcs through the smoke. The plastic handle had melted completely. Opening the microwave inside was a very bad mistake. The house was full of smoke after that. The microwave survived though and is still in good use and works great. It heats the food very evenly.
CoolDudeClem - You have a desert that's small enough to fit inside a Microwave! Don't you worry about Sandstorms & flash floods & other desert related things?
Simon: Congrats! One of you best posts! It awakened and renewed knowledge I had in the 70s. One of my first mircos was a roast chicken in a 5K oven. I lived in the NYC suburbs, but I wasn't from a super rich family. So, a high school friend showing off with George Benson mx in the background! As I remember, the chicken didn't taste that great. I knew this was going to be big. I think about those days Every time a bag of 'Orville gets 'the beep of 'Nuke- fire'!
MCI stands for Microwave Communications Inc. As they started out one of the relays across the Great Lakes between the US, and Canada. That's how they got in the Long Distance telecom business.
10:26 Can anyone explain why satellite dish animations have lasers shooting from the antenna ¿ Maybe they aim them that way or something. The signal they send definitely comes out of the other end of the antenna, in a sphere, and is directed by the dish. If that laser animation is to show the signal and not a laser aiming system, then it should be emitting from the entire dish itself. I suspect this misconception was perpetuated by the fictional Death Star weapon.
Short answer: Don't use sheets of metal where you don't intend to bounce microwaves around. If you cover something in a sheet of metal, the microwaves will almost entirely bounce off that metal and never reach the item in question (i.e. covering something in foil prevents it from being heated). Don't use sharp points of metal, as those will let electrons flow out freely, creating arcs. No knives or forks, and if you have foil (underneath the food to be heated), avoid sharp corners. If you have a bowl of some substance you want to heat up iteratively with stirring, there's no harm leaving your spoon in the bowl during heating sessions, unless it's a funky design which has sharp points somewhere on the handle. The spoon won't heat up at all, other than via contact with the substance,, and you won't cause any damage whatsoever via electron reflection or leakage.
2:04 - "as molecules rub agains each other, they heat up..." - sounds misleading. _Kinetic theory explains heat as a macroscopic manifestation of the motions and interactions of microscopic constituents such as molecules and photons._ (wiki)
Nimring Heat is a form of kinetic (movement) energy, specifically rotation, vibration, oscillation, and other non translational molecular movement (even random translation counts), which can be transferred via contact/collision with other molecules, such as with "rubbing". What he said works as a good explanation for people who haven't taken a course in thermo-physics. "True intelligence is taking a complex subject and unfolding it so that a child could understand it." And why the heck are you using a Wikipedia quote as your source? That site is best used to gain a loose introductory awareness of a subject and the search terms in order to find a real, reliable source.
The fact that anyone is trying to rationalize a statement made on a TH-cam video by non-scientists/experts shows why TH-cam is entertaining but not a reliable source of information.
bonus fact over 9000 If you heat a hot pocket for 9000 seconds the microwave will make a bang sound and you'll drop your hot pocket Quote from real victim : "I was scared! I dropped my hot pocket!"
A bit of physics here. Electrostatic potential build up on the metal placed in the microwave, causes and electric arc to zap thru air and reach the oven's interior metal wall, burning big ass hole as shown in the video.
@@stephensnell1379 Biggest reason is bandwidth.. And they actually use both 2,4 and 5GHz. Alot of stuff still needs 2,4GHz and it's also has better range than 5GHz.
@@Oystein87 my WiFi only uses the 5 Gigahertz Frequency and only this frequency so my Microwave Oven won't interfere with my WiFi when my microwave oven is running to
@@stephensnell1379 But some devices only have 2,4GHz so in that case you would need both. I must use both 5 and 2,4 so all my devices can connect. And my microwave does not interfere on the 2,4GHz band anyway. It rearly does unless they are very close etc.
I agree. If the man who invented the standard size shipping box had patented or kept his idea a secret, we wouldn't have intermodal shipping, and all our stuff would have to be loaded on ships the old way.
Yeah, good thing Dr. Jonas Salk chose the public good over personal wealth and power when he developed the polio vaccine. Same can be said for Margaret Sanger and the doctors who developed the birth control pill. The latter opened a whole new world for half the human race, freeing them to fight for equality with men.
If you buy industrial grade meant to be used in commercial kitchen you can put aluminium, stainless steel etc and cutlery in the microwave and get away with it time and time again whether they are motorised or flatbed.
I routinely use metal in my microwave, leave spoons in food I'm cooking, that sort of thing. It's safe provided there's food to absorb the microwaves and the spoon isn't too close to the side, and you're not completely stupid. Never, ever had a microwave fail on me.
same here.. I warm up the food in a steel tiffin box all the time.. Nothing goes wrong as long as your steel container is filled with food up to its brim which in turn absorbs the waves.
My great grandfather was on the original team of engineers that were working on creating the microwave and my great grandmother refused to ever own one because of all the stuff that happened to many of the engineers. Sadly his group were overtaken by another group of engineers so they didn't get to say they invented the microwave
Actually, there is a way to put metal in the microwave. We used to to do this at electronics school to heat our food in metal take away tins. The trick is to put the entire thing in a brown paper bag and wrap it up so it is completely encased. What's more fun is putting a CD in the microwave - Not recommending it unless you can like obnoxious fumes - But watching the CD spark is awesome.
so, in bonus fact 6, you're saying that it simply changes how frequently the dynamo turns on. in other words it's frequency? (yes it's pedantic but it gets annoying to hear someone say "doesn't change the frequency" and then spend the next minute avoiding the word "frequency")
my chem teacher always told me that hes so old that he remembers his high school teachers saying the origin of microwave cooking was because of soldiers in Alaska Missle Defense and Early Warning base needed a way to warm up from the cold and found the radar dishes especially warm areas, until adverse health effects. then as he grew older he heard the story change to the guy with thw chocolate bar in his pocket. he reasoned that the military would rather payout a chocolate bar, than medical bills. did the story actually change? or what was he talking about?
My Panasonic came with a recipe book that said to wrap turkey wings and legs so they wouldn't burn. On the other hand, I have arced plenty of twist ties,which ignited the paper encasing them.
Great video, but I have a question. I have noticed that if I put fresh green beans without being submersed in water in a microwave, I see little flashes and there are sharp audible 'popping' sounds with the flashes. Why is this?
Because the green beans have a high mineral content and low water content, which is basically a worst-case scenario for the microwave's radiation. I'm guessing you have an older microwave since newer ones have a module specifically to avoid this sort of reaction... either that or you're getting the most mineral-packed green beans ever. It might minutely affect the quality of the green beans by heating them unevenly, but overall they're safe. It isn't good for your microwave, however... but then if I was guessing correctly you might just want to keep going with how you've been doing things and get a new microwave once that one dies, lol.
Makes sense. I am thinking stove top lol. No, the microwave is about a year old but a high end one. Well as soon as the arcing started between the beans I stopped ;); didn't think that was a good thing! Thanks Daniel.
All you need do is put the green beans in a covered microwave safe container (Corning-ware usually works) and a couple ounces of water in the container. That way, the beans will steam-cook. Works well for broccoli, too.
No, if you're wondering why you can't put metal in the microwave, you've never done it! We've put in cups with gold leaf, and everyone's done aluminum foil at some point. If you didn't figure it out then, you weren't meant to be a scientist.
Micah Philson yeah, I remember once when I was a kid, we made those little candy kits with the fake chocolates that you melt and make into little candy bars. However, when we tried to heat the little bags with the chocolates in the microwave, it blew up. Turns out someone had left the metal twist tie on.
In 7th grade, I put metal in the microwave. Unlike most people my age at that time, I stood by the microwave to watch it and managed to notice sparks of electricity. This experience taught me that metal should not be in the microwave so I stopped the timer and skipped lunch that day. Missing lunch sucked, but I haven't made that mistake again.
Not exactly. Each standard be it the original 802.11 or iterations of B/G/N, earlier Bluteooth, infradred etc uses the 2.4Ghz band which (not sure the range) depending on whether the open standard or deviant used uses a range within a specified frequency to deliver data successfully. The range is required so that different channels can be used to avoid conflict with other neighbouring networks and devices (even on a different standard within the same frequency range) to avoid interference/signal degradation etc. My say is Ethernet and wired all the way as even the 5Ghz band is becoming saturated with Wireless 802.11 AC and beyond.
ItsComingOutOfBothEnds yeah but it still uses 2.4ghz. He said 2.4ghz wasn't used for communication when clearly it is! I've also experienced WiFi drop out as soon as you switch the microwave on.
I was thinking the same thing. And in fact I used to get massive wifi interference (much alower download speeds, sometimes complete dropout), if my microwave oven was running. Though the router was fairly close to the kitchen, this was still rather surprising to me...
KuraIthys I have this issue with older microwaves that are not shielded all the way. When i was living in a apartment complex the upstairs neighbor had a microwave that cut off wifi for a fair amount of time. DoS my wifi
Bonus Bonus: Microwave ovens can melt glass if left on continuously, they will reduce almost any glass including stove-top pots to an inducted liquid state.
I remember once I needed to re-heat my dessert as I'd left it out too long, forgetting that I had left a metal spoon in the bowl as well. Put it in the microwave turned it on and nothing bad happened.
I once put a Lunchable in the microwave and forgot to take the candy(an Airhead) out, and almost as soon as I turned it on, the thing exploded in blue lightning... When we took it out, the candy and wrapper were completely melted together... We had to toss it out
Have you ever heard of this new thing we call spelling? Since the time of sms messages are over and we no longer pay per character, we try to spell correctly so people can understand our messages without needing to decrypt it.
Today I found out that not only did my high school cooking class teach me absolutely nothing about actual cooking, but my teacher lied about microwaves killing vegetable nutrients. I've thought for years that microwaves kill off nearly all nutrients while ovens don't. On the other hand she was right about being able to put metals into a microwave safely. I learned that a spoon shouldn't cause any danger but a fork will.
Weird coincidence: I was just glancing at my clock to see what time it was, which was 10:50pm...right at the time a microwave in the video with 10:50 displayed on it was showing.
I once put honey in a hotel package into a microwave to soften it. Let it run about 15 seconds and opened the door to retrieve it. As soon as i touched the package, the honey erupted violently and burned my hand pretty bad. There is actually a name for this process but i cant recall now. Surprised it doesnt happen more often.
Bonus fact. We don't use satellites to communicate phone calls any more, it was outdated in the early to late 90s depending on where you are; The horrific delay made it a doomed technology.
Extra, extra bonus fact: in Welsh the microwave has gained a much more onomatopoeic name ... "Popti ping"! (The i being pronounced as a "y" in English) 👍😁
Bonus-Bonus Fact: 2.45 Ghz is still in range to interfere with some bands of WIFI as allot of devices still run the 2.4 Ghz band range and not the more recently adopted 5Ghz band.
Once I didn't see that part of the aluminium foil that was covering my food was still there and I put it in the microwave and it had a lot of electricity arcing.
Bonus fact 7 is incorrect, that is not what a convection oven is. There have been microwave/conventional oven combos made, my grandma had one, however a convection oven is a conventional oven that has a fan in the back to evenly distribute he heat throughout the oven.
Ah yes, that time we all have heart attaks by discovering you cant throw a pop tart in a microwave in a wrapper. A feeling only made worse by the first taste of said pop tart.
Bonus fact #8 is more fiction than fact. The chocolate bar in Spencer’s pocket probably melted more from body heat than RF radiation... Not to sure about this back then, but weren’t chocolate bars wrapped in aluminum foil and then the wrapper? How did the RF penetrate the foil....... an RF shield ? And if he were so close for so long to melt that chocolate, he would have definitely felt the heating effects on his skin. And most definitely on his eyes.... the most sensitive part of the human body as far as RF goes.... AT&T long lines is not totally obsolete. There are still certain areas where it is still in operation... Also along with telephone, television was transmitted via long lines..... Plus many of the long lines towers had communication access for the presidents Air Force 1.
And another bonus fact... if you place a paper, twist tie (wire centre) in the microwave, it bursts into flames, panicking cooking teachers. Fun for the class, bad for the teacher and the microwave.
fun fact: if you microwave whole eggs just right, the yolk remeins pressurized, even after cooling down, and explodes under the right circumstances, that any attempt of eating it provides.
My dad was a real gadget guy, he was also a radar tech. We got our first [ radar ] range pretty much as soon as they were available. I can still remember Dads dire warnings about putting metal in the oven. When me and my brothers heard you could blow up an egg, well we just had to find out if it was true!! Dad, and Mom were not impressed.
If you set your microwave near your wifi modem or your Telstra tv box and use it you'll notice interference, this is because the frequencies are very similar. This happened way too often in the house
I had an issue where my laptop couldn't stay connected to the wifi in my boyfriend's parents' house while the microwave was running. I don't understand why... is it because wifi didn't exist when the microwave oven was invented, so the frequencies overlap?
last bonus fact: no wonder the London and Birmingham BT towers look so bare! they no longer retain any transceiver dishes on their mounting sections because they're simply not needed now..
So the first microwaves were about $70,000 in today's dollars, and in 1965 were about $4,000 in today's dollars... I'm glad I can get one for a fraction of those costs today.
As was mentioned in this very informative vid, a radar uses microwaves. So when that cop is sitting on the side of the road clocking your speed, yes, he's microwaving you.
I leave spoons in my food I microwave all the time, no problem, also tried to cook a soup in the can (top removed) and it was still cold after 3 minutes.
Like food facts? Then don't miss these tasty trivia tidbits.
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This video is absolutely fantastic 100%
I once put a gel candle in the microwave to melt the gel and a bolt of lightning struck the candle down to the little metal base and haha it actually lit the candle.
xD
neardood1 - Amazing.
I once put a McDonald’s kids meal light up hot wheels toy in the microwave.
Thats a lie.
Some candles are made by starting with a flat metal base with the wick crimped to come out the perpendicularly (stiffened with a small amount of wax). This is put in the bottom of a mold and the hot wax or gel fuel poured around it.
While gel fuel may absorb microwaves, paraffin wax doesn’t, so the only absorbent material is the string (usually cotton = cellulose = a very long sugar polymer), which is attached to a piece of metal. Perfect conditions for a spark to ignite the cotton, which will ignite the wax. But unless you put some food in with it, you risked reflecting the energy back into the magnetron and damaging it.
Fats and ice don’t absorb microwaves, but water, proteins, carbs, and other non-fatty food materials do. That’s why frozen food instructions generally say to stir and recover about halfway through the process. The first half starts melting the ice so that the sauce or gravy CAN be stirred.
Bonus Fact 12: Because microwaves can interfere with pacemakers, all microwaves produced in the United States after October 6, 1971 must meet the FDA/CDRH requirements regulating the acceptable amount of microwave leakage. Despite this being in place, I remember people with pacemakers being told not to operate microwaves as recently as the mid-1990s--but that was due to urban legend rather than actual hard facts.
TimeLady8 Wow, cool, today I found out ;)!
Today I Found Out :-D
+TimeLady8 The Doctor would be proud!
I‘ve heard that‘s why people with pacemakers shouldn’t use induction stoves either. I don’t know if that’s actually true though, I can’t imagine people dropping dead from using the wrong stove 🤔
@@Halbmond
From the national institute of health
"CONCLUSION: Patients are at risk if the implant is unipolar and left-sided, if they stand as close as possible to the induction cooktop, and if the pot is not concentric with the induction coil. Unipolar pacing systems can sense interference generated by leakage currents if the patient touches the pot for a long period of time. The most likely response to interference is switching to an asynchronous interference mode. Patients with unipolar pacemakers are at risk only if they are not pacemaker-dependent."
Bonus fact 354 : this video has more bonus facts than all videos combined. Lol great video guys
Bonus fact 2001: Eventually a video about Arthur C Clarke and his work will have 2001 bonus facts, this will be a deliberate nod to the title of one of his works of fiction.
When I was younger, I needed to dry a wire strainer, and forgetting that metal shouldn't be microwaved, I placed the strainer in the oven, with the idea that it would evaporate the droplets. Within a few seconds, electricity started to arc, upon which I started thinking, "SHIT SHIT SHIT!"
Ethan Wagner Nothing happens. It'll scorch it a bit but that's about it.
Ethan Wagner that happened to me it was so scary ::::(
😱😱you thought a bad word
wow 11 bonus facts! That might be a record.
bonus fact 12: 11 bonus facts may be a record
13. It was until there were 12.
7:10 - That should be "amplitude" not "frequency", although, of course, there is no change in frequency either and yes, the "power-level" is usually changed by varying the duty-cycle or "mark-space ratio" - In other words, at anything other than "full power", the microwave oven switches on and off periodically, with longer "off" times and shorter "on" times producing low power settings whilst longer "on" times and shorter "off" times produce higher power settings.
You can't get metal into a microwave. Have you ever tried fitting an electric guitar in there? Then there's the amp, the speakers, the drums and eventually the musicians... Trust me, it's a lot more trouble than it's worth.
Have you tried an industrial sized microwave and kid sized instruments? Surely there must be a way!
I got this. *pulls smartphone from pocket, plays black sabbath*
@@regularfather4708 You can charge your phone at the same time!
I would have liked a bit more explanation about which metal shapes and sizes are OK, and which are a problem. The segment on forks just starts to get to the meat of the issue.
google it
Off topic.
You could say he was just heating up
The ghost of Michael Faraday is wondering why you didn't just mention his cage at the beginning, while James Clerk Maxwell gets a name check. :)
stephen madl A faraday cage reflects radiation with very little absorption. Any holes in the cage should have their longest dimension much less than the wavelength to be stopped.
In addition James Clerk Maxwell has a pronunciation of Clark ... He was English not American! 🤔😱
7:02 I use a phillips microwave which does properly change the power to the magnetron instead of changing the duty cycle, but that is a specific feature. It allows for defrosting and lower power cooking with fewer hot spots.
400k subs? Damn shame, this channel is awesome. Been on a binge for hours and it seems endless :D.
Thanks! Funny enough, a mere month and a half ago we only had 50K subscribers after over 500 videos. :-)
well deserved! keep it up
Today I Found Out I feel old, seems like only a couple weeks ago I subscribed when you only had 250K subs.
Wait, that was a couple weeks ago. lol
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boonlen9 It's a fuck-ton for sure but this channel deserves even more. It's so dope.
You know what's interesting? Sometimes, turning on the microwave would disrupt my wifi signal. I then got a 5 Ghz router, and it stopped.
this is because 2.4 ghz (wifi) is close to the 2.45 ghz of your microwave and if your microwave was a bit wrong and had a lot of leak radiation it could have been the source of your problem
OMGosh yes, where i live the house is small and my wifi box is almost close to the M'wave , swear i my wifi signal acts like its far away .. hmm
blusoldierwoman And the signal strength needed to be picked up by a receiving device and cause interference is way below the maximum allowed leakage, which is way below the level that can harm humans.
My Whirlpool Microwave (AVM 045) manual clearly states that it is ok to use multiple "small aliminium foil sheets" to cover "easy to burn" bits, like the bone end on chicken drumstick, the wings and so fourth. Also ok, (single use) aluminum forms. Warning noted in the manual. Remove the paper lid, since it has a metallic film on the inside, and expect longer cooking time.
Common tip for safely boiling cups of water, especially in regions where Reverse Osmosis units are regularly used, is to put a metal spoon in the cup. De-ionized water can sometimes be superheated, and when you add anything to it, violently boil over. The spoon supposedly ionizes the water ever so slightly by giving away metal ions, causing the cup of water to safely boil in the microwave. Not sure if i believe that to be the full story, but anyhow, it's yet another safe way to use metal in your microwave...
10:05 Talks about microwave relay links and shows cellular/PCS antennas.
It is not rubbing of molecules against each other which is heating up
Actually the warmer molecule it is, the faster it vibrates or moves
As vibration is forced upon molecules in microwave, then molecules have no choice but to become hotter
P. S. To achieve absolute zero temperature you need to stop vibration of molecules
I once accidentally put metal in the microwave, I wanted to heat up my desert and forgot I'd left the spoon in the bowl. Nothing bad happened though except I almost burned myself on the hot spoon afterwards.
I accidentally put a metallic mug full of soup to the microwave once. it was there for about minute while I was away. When I came back I could see blue arcs through the smoke. The plastic handle had melted completely. Opening the microwave inside was a very bad mistake. The house was full of smoke after that. The microwave survived though and is still in good use and works great. It heats the food very evenly.
CoolDudeClem - You have a desert that's small enough to fit inside a Microwave! Don't you worry about Sandstorms & flash floods & other desert related things?
And now you have the super powers of a spoo n
Simon: Congrats! One of you best posts! It awakened and renewed knowledge I had in the 70s. One of my first mircos was a roast chicken in a 5K oven. I lived in the NYC suburbs, but I wasn't from a super rich family. So, a high school friend showing off with George Benson mx in the background! As I remember, the chicken didn't taste that great. I knew this was going to be big. I think about those days Every time a bag of 'Orville gets 'the beep of 'Nuke- fire'!
MCI stands for Microwave Communications Inc. As they started out one of the relays across the Great Lakes between the US, and Canada. That's how they got in the Long Distance telecom business.
Psiberzerker and Meal Combat Individual
10:26 Can anyone explain why satellite dish animations have lasers shooting from the antenna ¿ Maybe they aim them that way or something.
The signal they send definitely comes out of the other end of the antenna, in a sphere, and is directed by the dish. If that laser animation is to show the signal and not a laser aiming system, then it should be emitting from the entire dish itself.
I suspect this misconception was perpetuated by the fictional Death Star weapon.
Short answer:
Don't use sheets of metal where you don't intend to bounce microwaves around. If you cover something in a sheet of metal, the microwaves will almost entirely bounce off that metal and never reach the item in question (i.e. covering something in foil prevents it from being heated).
Don't use sharp points of metal, as those will let electrons flow out freely, creating arcs. No knives or forks, and if you have foil (underneath the food to be heated), avoid sharp corners.
If you have a bowl of some substance you want to heat up iteratively with stirring, there's no harm leaving your spoon in the bowl during heating sessions, unless it's a funky design which has sharp points somewhere on the handle. The spoon won't heat up at all, other than via contact with the substance,, and you won't cause any damage whatsoever via electron reflection or leakage.
2:40 Puts an entirely new meaning to the song "Side to Side"
this is actually one of the best explanations I've found so far. Good job!
2:04 - "as molecules rub agains each other, they heat up..." - sounds misleading.
_Kinetic theory explains heat as a macroscopic manifestation of the motions and interactions of microscopic constituents such as molecules and photons._ (wiki)
Nimring
Heat is a form of kinetic (movement) energy, specifically rotation, vibration, oscillation, and other non translational molecular movement (even random translation counts), which can be transferred via contact/collision with other molecules, such as with "rubbing". What he said works as a good explanation for people who haven't taken a course in thermo-physics. "True intelligence is taking a complex subject and unfolding it so that a child could understand it." And why the heck are you using a Wikipedia quote as your source? That site is best used to gain a loose introductory awareness of a subject and the search terms in order to find a real, reliable source.
The fact that anyone is trying to rationalize a statement made on a TH-cam video by non-scientists/experts shows why TH-cam is entertaining but not a reliable source of information.
this has seriously got to be one of my favorite channels
bonus fact over 9000 If you heat a hot pocket for 9000 seconds the microwave will make a bang sound and you'll drop your hot pocket
Quote from real victim : "I was scared! I dropped my hot pocket!"
Don't be such a dickhead
No person would do that
You made that up
"Metal has the potential to damage your microwave." I see what you did here ;)
what did he do though?
"potential"
potential=possibility. I don't get it..
A bit of physics here. Electrostatic potential build up on the metal placed in the microwave, causes and electric arc to zap thru air and reach the oven's interior metal wall, burning big ass hole as shown in the video.
Drunken Hobo you have a Metal Meltdown
Extra bonus fact: The 2,45GHz microwaves can in some cases cause issues with 2,4GHz WiFi signals.
That's why modern WiFi routers and hubs now use the 5 Gigahertz frequency nowadays not the old 2.45.
@@stephensnell1379 Biggest reason is bandwidth.. And they actually use both 2,4 and 5GHz.
Alot of stuff still needs 2,4GHz and it's also has better range than 5GHz.
@@Oystein87 my WiFi only uses the 5 Gigahertz Frequency and only this frequency so my Microwave Oven won't interfere with my WiFi when my microwave oven is running to
@@stephensnell1379 But some devices only have 2,4GHz so in that case you would need both. I must use both 5 and 2,4 so all my devices can connect. And my microwave does not interfere on the 2,4GHz band anyway. It rearly does unless they are very close etc.
7:49 Being generous is not a monumental mistake. Maybe Percy wasn't money hungry and greedy.
I agree. If the man who invented the standard size shipping box had patented or kept his idea a secret, we wouldn't have intermodal shipping, and all our stuff would have to be loaded on ships the old way.
Yeah, good thing Dr. Jonas Salk chose the public good over personal wealth and power when he developed the polio vaccine. Same can be said for Margaret Sanger and the doctors who developed the birth control pill. The latter opened a whole new world for half the human race, freeing them to fight for equality with men.
If you buy industrial grade meant to be used in commercial kitchen you can put aluminium, stainless steel etc and cutlery in the microwave and get away with it time and time again whether they are motorised or flatbed.
I routinely use metal in my microwave, leave spoons in food I'm cooking, that sort of thing. It's safe provided there's food to absorb the microwaves and the spoon isn't too close to the side, and you're not completely stupid. Never, ever had a microwave fail on me.
same here.. I warm up the food in a steel tiffin box all the time.. Nothing goes wrong as long as your steel container is filled with food up to its brim which in turn absorbs the waves.
"Time for a bonus fact!" -6.5 minutes remaining of video
4:22 for just a second there I thought that wasn't a microwave but a small safe, making the picture a clever way of saying 'not safe'.
This channel is great! You just gained a new subscriber!
I was hoping they were called science ovens ;_;
They are now. They are now.
At my house anyway lol
Knew i couldnt be the only one. Lol
$5,000 in 1945 dollars, or in 2015 dollars? If it's 1945 dollars, that's over $65,000 in 2015 dollars.
tacopizza2003 I feel like many facts in this video are dodgy. Maybe he converted it first.
tacopizza2003 they were $5,000 back in 1945, the "microwave oven" article on Wikipedia backs up his statement.
They used to be FREAKING HUGE and needed special plumbing fixtures installed in the house to cool them.
Alex C He is saying $5,000 in 1945 adjusted for inflatio would be $67,146.94 today.
According to Wikipedia the first microwave was 495 dollars or about 4000 dollars in 2016.
wow... the quality of the videos has improved so much in the last 4 years.
I loved the bonus facts at the end. Great job!
Actually, the molecules don't "rub against each other". The movement itself IS heat.
I put onions in the microwave and it started to arc. Weird day.
My great grandfather was on the original team of engineers that were working on creating the microwave and my great grandmother refused to ever own one because of all the stuff that happened to many of the engineers. Sadly his group were overtaken by another group of engineers so they didn't get to say they invented the microwave
Pretty late reply, but thats so cool and a great story!
"Kill the Magnetron" sounds like a great name for a METAL band! \m/
Actually, there is a way to put metal in the microwave. We used to to do this at electronics school to heat our food in metal take away tins. The trick is to put the entire thing in a brown paper bag and wrap it up so it is completely encased. What's more fun is putting a CD in the microwave - Not recommending it unless you can like obnoxious fumes - But watching the CD spark is awesome.
Bonus Fact 897: All of those watt numbers got ran together to me, and my mind drifted to Doc's 1.21 gigawatts in Back to the Future.
so, in bonus fact 6, you're saying that it simply changes how frequently the dynamo turns on. in other words it's frequency? (yes it's pedantic but it gets annoying to hear someone say "doesn't change the frequency" and then spend the next minute avoiding the word "frequency")
my chem teacher always told me that hes so old that he remembers his high school teachers saying the origin of microwave cooking was because of soldiers in Alaska Missle Defense and Early Warning base needed a way to warm up from the cold and found the radar dishes especially warm areas, until adverse health effects.
then as he grew older he heard the story change to the guy with thw chocolate bar in his pocket.
he reasoned that the military would rather payout a chocolate bar, than medical bills.
did the story actually change?
or what was he talking about?
Instructions unclear, microwave now sentient.
Getting old school! Man you and damon came far!
there are so many bonus faction list that it is practically abuse of TH-cam
My Panasonic came with a recipe book that said to wrap turkey wings and legs so they wouldn't burn. On the other hand, I have arced plenty of twist ties,which ignited the paper encasing them.
I used to watch forging knife videos, and some of them put the blades on the microwave oven for make shift heat treating.
Great video, but I have a question. I have noticed that if I put fresh green beans without being submersed in water in a microwave, I see little flashes and there are sharp audible 'popping' sounds with the flashes. Why is this?
Because the green beans have a high mineral content and low water content, which is basically a worst-case scenario for the microwave's radiation. I'm guessing you have an older microwave since newer ones have a module specifically to avoid this sort of reaction... either that or you're getting the most mineral-packed green beans ever.
It might minutely affect the quality of the green beans by heating them unevenly, but overall they're safe. It isn't good for your microwave, however... but then if I was guessing correctly you might just want to keep going with how you've been doing things and get a new microwave once that one dies, lol.
Makes sense. I am thinking stove top lol. No, the microwave is about a year old but a high end one. Well as soon as the arcing started between the beans I stopped ;); didn't think that was a good thing!
Thanks Daniel.
All you need do is put the green beans in a covered microwave safe container (Corning-ware usually works) and a couple ounces of water in the container. That way, the beans will steam-cook. Works well for broccoli, too.
No, if you're wondering why you can't put metal in the microwave, you've never done it! We've put in cups with gold leaf, and everyone's done aluminum foil at some point. If you didn't figure it out then, you weren't meant to be a scientist.
Micah Philson yeah, I remember once when I was a kid, we made those little candy kits with the fake chocolates that you melt and make into little candy bars. However, when we tried to heat the little bags with the chocolates in the microwave, it blew up. Turns out someone had left the metal twist tie on.
hamster and a spoon I was a mean kid !
skeletor danzig a mean kid? Sounds more like a sadistic psychopath kid …
In 7th grade, I put metal in the microwave. Unlike most people my age at that time, I stood by the microwave to watch it and managed to notice sparks of electricity. This experience taught me that metal should not be in the microwave so I stopped the timer and skipped lunch that day. Missing lunch sucked, but I haven't made that mistake again.
Isn't 2.4 GHz exactly the frequency used by most WiFi connections?
Not exactly. Each standard be it the original 802.11 or iterations of B/G/N, earlier Bluteooth, infradred etc uses the 2.4Ghz band which (not sure the range) depending on whether the open standard or deviant used uses a range within a specified frequency to deliver data successfully. The range is required so that different channels can be used to avoid conflict with other neighbouring networks and devices (even on a different standard within the same frequency range) to avoid interference/signal degradation etc.
My say is Ethernet and wired all the way as even the 5Ghz band is becoming saturated with Wireless 802.11 AC and beyond.
ItsComingOutOfBothEnds yeah but it still uses 2.4ghz. He said 2.4ghz wasn't used for communication when clearly it is! I've also experienced WiFi drop out as soon as you switch the microwave on.
I was thinking the same thing. And in fact I used to get massive wifi interference (much alower download speeds, sometimes complete dropout), if my microwave oven was running.
Though the router was fairly close to the kitchen, this was still rather surprising to me...
KuraIthys I have this issue with older microwaves that are not shielded all the way. When i was living in a apartment complex the upstairs neighbor had a microwave that cut off wifi for a fair amount of time. DoS my wifi
both Bluetooth and wifi use 2.4 ghz but just not 2.45 ghz
Thank you for using hardcore science terms to me, a being not fluent in science. Really helped me understand why I dont watch too many of your videos👍
Bonus Bonus: Microwave ovens can melt glass if left on continuously, they will reduce almost any glass including stove-top pots to an inducted liquid state.
My mother always microwaved butter in a stainless steel butter dish, never sparked or had any problems
I don't understand: The radiation is non-ionizing yet forks and stuff get electrically charged, can you understand, that is might be confusing?
I remember once I needed to re-heat my dessert as I'd left it out too long, forgetting that I had left a metal spoon in the bowl as well. Put it in the microwave turned it on and nothing bad happened.
0:02 I didn't realize putting metal in the microwave was a taboo. I always thought you didn't do it just because it was dangerous lol.
I once put a Lunchable in the microwave and forgot to take the candy(an Airhead) out, and almost as soon as I turned it on, the thing exploded in blue lightning... When we took it out, the candy and wrapper were completely melted together... We had to toss it out
Bonus fact 293: A lot of these bonus facts probably should have just been part of the video.
:-D
Thanks for the informative episode.
Microwaves are a greate way to delet data stored on a cd
Have you ever heard of this new thing we call spelling? Since the time of sms messages are over and we no longer pay per character, we try to spell correctly so people can understand our messages without needing to decrypt it.
+Kaleb Bruwer lol... grammar nazi put on its place: ' tjis ' !!!
good effort doe s0n
+Kaleb Bruwer "tjis" "tjis" duh Imma gud spellr! Have you heard of this new thing called not being a jackass?
Hans Meier or just burn it but ok
Can't believe how poor the spelling, and grammar are in some of the comments for these videos.
Today I found out that not only did my high school cooking class teach me absolutely nothing about actual cooking, but my teacher lied about microwaves killing vegetable nutrients. I've thought for years that microwaves kill off nearly all nutrients while ovens don't. On the other hand she was right about being able to put metals into a microwave safely. I learned that a spoon shouldn't cause any danger but a fork will.
Weird coincidence: I was just glancing at my clock to see what time it was, which was 10:50pm...right at the time a microwave in the video with 10:50 displayed on it was showing.
I once put honey in a hotel package into a microwave to soften it.
Let it run about 15 seconds and opened the door to retrieve it.
As soon as i touched the package, the honey erupted violently and burned my hand pretty bad.
There is actually a name for this process but i cant recall now.
Surprised it doesnt happen more often.
Bonus fact. We don't use satellites to communicate phone calls any more, it was outdated in the early to late 90s depending on where you are; The horrific delay made it a doomed technology.
The microwave oven can save you from an angry Cylon.
What is the frequency, Kenneth?
Extra, extra bonus fact: in Welsh the microwave has gained a much more onomatopoeic name ... "Popti ping"! (The i being pronounced as a "y" in English) 👍😁
I learned this the hard way when I was young. Had to reheat my Mom's coffee and the mug had a metal coating. Scared me shitless.
Bonus-Bonus Fact: 2.45 Ghz is still in range to interfere with some bands of WIFI as allot of devices still run the 2.4 Ghz band range and not the more recently adopted 5Ghz band.
Once I didn't see that part of the aluminium foil that was covering my food was still there and I put it in the microwave and it had a lot of electricity arcing.
Bonus fact 7 is incorrect, that is not what a convection oven is. There have been microwave/conventional oven combos made, my grandma had one, however a convection oven is a conventional oven that has a fan in the back to evenly distribute he heat throughout the oven.
Thanks for the correction. I was thinking the same thing. I guess he read the script wrong.
God 4 years ago you sounded like that person that says the side effects of a drug that’s advertised on TV. The music really goes with it.
Ah yes, that time we all have heart attaks by discovering you cant throw a pop tart in a microwave in a wrapper.
A feeling only made worse by the first taste of said pop tart.
It feels so plastic-y, I wouldn't have thought it was metal.
Bonus fact #8 is more fiction than fact.
The chocolate bar in Spencer’s pocket probably melted more from body heat than RF radiation... Not to sure about this back then, but weren’t chocolate bars wrapped in aluminum foil and then the wrapper? How did the RF penetrate the foil....... an RF shield ? And if he were so close for so long to melt that chocolate, he would have definitely felt the heating effects on his skin. And most definitely on his eyes.... the most sensitive part of the human body as far as RF goes....
AT&T long lines is not totally obsolete. There are still certain areas where it is still in operation... Also along with telephone, television was transmitted via long lines..... Plus many of the long lines towers had communication access for the presidents Air Force 1.
1:05
Surprisingly this is the exact same microwave i own, the only difference is mine isn't in this video.
And another bonus fact... if you place a paper, twist tie (wire centre) in the microwave, it bursts into flames, panicking cooking teachers. Fun for the class, bad for the teacher and the microwave.
fun fact: if you microwave whole eggs just right, the yolk remeins pressurized, even after cooling down, and explodes under the right circumstances, that any attempt of eating it provides.
My dad was a real gadget guy, he was also a radar tech. We got our first [ radar ] range pretty much as soon as they were available. I can still remember Dads dire warnings about putting metal in the oven. When me and my brothers heard you could blow up an egg, well we just had to find out if it was true!! Dad, and Mom were not impressed.
If you set your microwave near your wifi modem or your Telstra tv box and use it you'll notice interference, this is because the frequencies are very similar. This happened way too often in the house
I'll be back after my finals with the answer for "Why powders can absorb it?".
Saw it in a paper about plasmon mapping , just need to find it again.
Never even heard of a plasmon. That's MORE cool stuff to learn (thanks be to ye).
More than 60% of this video is bonus facts purely for the purpose of upping retention time and taking in that sweet sweet caysh
This is making me think of the "is it a good idea to microwave this?" series of TH-cam videos
gonna send this to my boyfriend's parents so they ge a goddamn microwave already
the best way to find out what you should and shouldn't put in a microwave is to watch the "is it a good idea to microwave this" channel
I never heard microwave ovens called "electronic ovens." In the 1950s and '60s they were known as "radar ovens".
The term "radar ovens" was not entirely misleading because microwave frequencies are the main frequencies used in radar.
@@kkfoto - Thanks for the clarification.
I remember as a kid sticking tinfoil balls in the microwave on a plate to watch a mini light show:p
I had an issue where my laptop couldn't stay connected to the wifi in my boyfriend's parents' house while the microwave was running. I don't understand why... is it because wifi didn't exist when the microwave oven was invented, so the frequencies overlap?
I once heated a cup of tea in the microwave, but it was on a saucer that had gold foil painted around the rim. Oof. That burn hurt quite a bit.
last bonus fact: no wonder the London and Birmingham BT towers look so bare! they no longer retain any transceiver dishes on their mounting sections because they're simply not needed now..
So the first microwaves were about $70,000 in today's dollars, and in 1965 were about $4,000 in today's dollars... I'm glad I can get one for a fraction of those costs today.
so much bonus, makes me feel like a king
I found out the hard way, left a spoon in a drink I was heating up, it was a horrific light show. Luckily I stopped it asap
As was mentioned in this very informative vid, a radar uses microwaves. So when that cop is sitting on the side of the road clocking your speed, yes, he's microwaving you.
I love how he says Aluminum (Al-oom-in-um) as I was taught how to pronounce it in the US.
I leave spoons in my food I microwave all the time, no problem, also tried to cook a soup in the can (top removed) and it was still cold after 3 minutes.