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A Foundry in Every Kitchen

Posted by michael on from the we-are-not-responsible-if-you-burn-your-arm-off dept.

WolfWithoutAClause writes "Bored with making the same old food or plasma in your microwave? David Reid sounds like he is. He's using his domestic microwave oven to melt iron, silver and bronze! Over 900C! I don't know about you, but I'm going to be checking the temperature of my pizza rather more carefully in future..."

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  1. Microwave Pizza?? by RJ11 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about you, but I'm going to be checking the temperature of my pizza rather more carefully in future...

    Who in the world microwaves pizza? It gets very soggy and loses almost any redeeming qualities.

    1. Re:Microwave Pizza?? by buzzbomb · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Who in the world microwaves pizza? It gets very soggy and loses almost any redeeming qualities.

      A lot of people. And the ones that know how to operate a microwave properly enjoy it more than the twits that don't.

  2. Re:Microwaves are potentially dangerous---no shit. by dc.wander · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no, i've taken apart tv's... television sets are high voltage, low current devices. if you zap yourself on the tube, it'll hurt like hell, but won't kill you. microwaves are a completely different animal.. even if i did own the tool required to properly discharge a capacitor, what makes you think that there's only one cap in there that can kill you? unless you have the schematic/servic manual (which are typically only available to authorized service centers), you don't know for sure


    anyways, even if this fear does stem from ignorance (which it does), just because i've been trained in a related area does not mean i even repair electronics for a living (i don't) or even have the desire to learn how to service a microwave (i have better things to do with my time).


    anyways, i was just letting the less informed know about this; but since you're so gung-ho about these things, make sure you wrap your fucking balls in tin-foil, because these things can give off a dangerous amount of radiation also. but you already knew that, didn't you.

  3. Re:Pizza won't hit 900 Celcius by prockcore · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the pizza isn't a very efficient absorber of energy, but the cheese certainly is.

    As anyone who's ever bitten into fried mozzarella sticks can attest.. cheese is the one magic food that has the potential to turn into molten lava.

  4. A vacuum dryer by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Water evaporates at lower temperature as the atmospheric pressure reduces. You wanna conserve loads of energy? Pump the air out of the dryer and apply a little heat.

    Oh shit, patent, patent...

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