How microwaves work

I could explain how a microwave works, but I will need a volunteer.

In the early days of microwaves in the late seventies our pub landlord got one to offer hot pies. The first few Saturday lunchtimes were an epic fail: thermodynamically volcanic outside: solid ice inside.
The mushy peas offered alongside would have stripped paint to bare metal in 2 seconds.

You can measure the speed of light using a microwave and some cheese!

When I was a small boy ( early 1980s ) my parents had a hitachi microwave that would trip out the electrics in the block of flats we lived in in Germany, ooh the good old days

Luckymarine wrote: You can measure the speed of light using a microwave and some cheese!

Don't want to talk about microwaves :dry:
a couple of years ago my wife bought a dinner set with a gold coloured design on it, I subsequently entered one of said plates into microwave and found out that the gold design was actually some kind of metallic design. alas there was a large flash, a bang and the plate became three :pinch: , just a shame that she saw it or I could've got away with blaming the dog lol

John and Sue wrote: In the early days of microwaves in the late seventies our pub landlord got one to offer hot pies. The first few Saturday lunchtimes were an epic fail: thermodynamically volcanic outside: solid ice inside.
The mushy peas offered alongside would have stripped paint to bare metal in 2 seconds.

Like the pies I used to get at elland road in the eighties!!!

David Aiketgate wrote:

Luckymarine wrote: You can measure the speed of light using a microwave and some cheese!

In these modern sophisticated times I find that microwaves are good for one thing only:

Reheating the Chinese takeaway remains that you couldn't quite finish on Saturday night. For brunch on Sunday. Noodles and Stella Artois. or Kronenberg. Sets one up for a full day of arguing with The Wife.
At a pinch: two uses......

Heating baked beans, soup, chilli etc when you really can't be asred to get a pan out the drawer and do it properly. And subsequently lose your fingerprints on the bowl or plate when you try and pick it up. And the middle is still chilled. Maybe it's just me.

Truly an invention of Satanic Forces who seek to eradicate mankind.

If anyone wants to give a lesson on how wonderful microwaves are: just don't. Really. Don't.

For scrambled egg in a Pyrex bowl without having to spend an hour scrubbing the pan if done on the hob, and reheating my tea at work, otherwise I'd always have cold tea
And my favourite use, starting off jacket potatoes before a 30 minute crisp up in the oven, the outside of a jacket potato should resemble thick crunchy leather and only be penetrable with a steak knife.

We use it for cooking vegetables mainly.

I hate mushy vegetables(my mother used to boil all vegetables into tasteless mush) so the microwave is perfect for slightly crunchy carrots etc.