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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on December 22, 2002, 11:02:48 AM
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Well, not so new any more. A present from my mother :) And what a present. :eek: Best thing I ever had. I use it to heat up my coffee mug in the morning, to cook a baked potato (12 mins) or to heat a curry or similar ready meal. Very quick – bachelor’s best friend.
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Welcome to the 21st century..
Kinda small though, I can get a full grown cat in mine..
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anyone remember the story going around (not sure if it wasn't urban legend).. of the microwave that was picking up RF..and this family sat down to dinner and their microwave started cursing at them..supposedly picking up a nearby trucker's CB radio..
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Don't they tax microwave oven use in G.B.?
AKDejaVu
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No, but English cuisine being what it is, you do have to register and license them. I believe they must also be kept at a secure "Cooking Club" but you can check them out at certain specified, government approved "mealtimes".
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Enjoy Beetle... just funning ya!
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12 mins for a baked potato? You may as well use the oven :)
Mine takes around 4, for a large potato.
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LOL AkDejaVu and Toad.
Beet1e, you will find that microwaves do awful things to most foods. I hate mine and use it as a last resort.
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you will find that microwaves do awful things to most foods. I hate mine and use it as a last resort.
and a last resort being when the wife won't cook? he did say it is a bachelors best friend. :)
beetle from one bachelor to another you'll find in emergent situations microwaves dry wet socks quite well too.:D
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With the exception of breads or other oven browned foods, I can make anything in a microwave taste as well or better as stove/oven cooked food. My mother now believes me: she now has me cook certain things because I make it both better and faster than the conventional way.
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Originally posted by K98k
and a last resort being when the wife won't cook? he did say it is a bachelors best friend. :)
Before I was married I lead a very typical bachelor's life...and I know very well that a bachelor's best friend is NOT a microwave. Using one entails work...and eventually cleaning up.
A bachelor's best friend is any place that will cook edible food and bring it to your door. Cleaning up afterwards should involve little else except shoveling what is left over into the trash.
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Glad to see ya catching up to the 1950s Beet1e. We gonna hear about the color television next :)
Charon
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This is true, please heed my words. Microwaving liquids (especially in a coffee mug) can cause the liquid to explode upward as you remove it from the microwave.
I've only had it happen to me once. I was warming up some water because the coffee pot was in the dishwasher. I reached in, grabbed the mug, and then I noticed "hey, the water is shooting out the top of the mug". Ouch ouch ouch. Luckily the water wasnt too hot yet, and did not cause serious burns.
This mainly happens in mugs that are (1)new, and (2) in mugs that have very smooth interiors. The water builds up energy, and has no place to release it. The jarring movement of removing the mug causes it all to be released at once.
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That's called a burp. The water needs some impurities to promote a smooth "boiling". If it doesn't have the impurities to promote the boiling, then it will superheat. When it gets to that condition, the first disturbance causes one instantaneous burp that can splash water.
The old wives tale rings true.
I learned all about it from an Engineer that was working on a sulfuric acid reclaim station. He learned all about it when the station exploded spraying 100 gallons of 100% sulfuric acid all over the place.
AKDejaVu
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It's also called "flash boiling", is usually happens when a fork or stirstick is places in a cup of water right out of the microwave. Once the surface tension is broken, the water will "flash boil", or boil so fast it shoots up out of the container.
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LOL..... well this thread is different. Happy new microwave, Beetle... :) We have just recently replaced ours for another combination microwave/convection oven, which I think are the best kind. This is our third combo and now I wouldn't go back to an ordinary microwave.... :)
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Originally posted by Charon
Glad to see ya catching up to the 1950s Beet1e. We gonna hear about the color television next :)
Charon
Don't be ridiculous Charon. Television is black and white, everyone knows that.
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Hehe! I'm afraid you've all been the unwitting participants to a study into the American psyche. :) Go here (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73790) to see the results!
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here you can buy one for about $50... you have been able to for the last 10 years. Before that.. they cost a little more.
lazs
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Beatle, I'm surprised Great Britain allows the posession of a device whose only purpose is to nuke the flesh of dead animals, given your Government's instistance of protecting Brits from themselves. My God, Beatle, don't you realise the proliferation of microwave ovens is what's made America so obese?
Here in America many of us PETA activists are calling for a ban on microwave ovens, or at least the registration of them. The only people who have a legitimate need for microwave ovens are the police and military, IMO. Of course "nuke nuts" like Dune, Toad, GTO and Lazs will insist upon their constitutional rights to hot Halopino Pepper Jack Poppers in 30 seconds.
Beatle, look at all the social problems that have been caused by obesity in America- heart disease, rejection, all of that- and all our problems started with the proliferation of microwave ovens. I urge you to work for a ban on microwave ovens before it is too late. After all, you are all on a tiny little island, and if you start getting as big and fat as us Americans are some of you will get crowded off and drown.
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Welcome Back!! :D
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Beetle-
Try as you might, you just aren't that deep. ;)
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LOL - deep enough.
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