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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. 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.