• microwave blowout

    From Jasen Betts@21:1/5 to none@dev.null on Fri Jan 29 21:52:09 2016
    On 2016-01-29, JW <none@dev.null> wrote:
    On 28 Jan 2016 11:44:43 GMT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote in
    Message id: <n8cuvb$oo2$1@gonzo.alcatraz>:

    On 2016-01-28, Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote:

    [...]


    Can not explain it,but have been told never to put an egg in the shell , >>> hard boiled or not in the microwave.

    even out of its shell it's risky.

    Why is that? I do that all the time cooking eggs for my dogs. Nothing bad
    has happened so far.

    dunno for sure why, just had to deal with the mess.

    I B'LEVE that after it's solid the white forms a closed cell gel,
    if you get that hot enough the trapped water makes enough pressure to
    rupture the gel structure and it and it flash boils in some sort of
    chain reaction.

    Whatever, it goes "bang" and knocks the ceiling of the oven off its
    mounting clips.

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  • From Ian Field@21:1/5 to Don Bruder on Tue Feb 2 19:07:09 2016
    "Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message news:n8eb8n$lnh$1@dont-email.me...
    In article <n8drt1$scq$1@dont-email.me>, Baron <baron@linuxmaniac.net>
    wrote:

    Ralph Mowery prodded the keyboard with:


    <rdelaney2001@gmail.com> wrote in message
    news:cacafb18-7e51-4d70-90d2-56d40df7b7cb@googlegroups.com...
    Yesterday, in a cafeteria, I decided to hard boil
    an egg in a microwave oven (which I never tried hitherto),
    a minimum size unit. I half filled a standard paper
    coffee cup with water, sufficient to immerse the egg.
    Timer set for 3 min.

    I left for a few minutes. Upon return, a disaster of
    Hurricane Sandy magnitude! Door open, cup split,
    and a HOLE in the oven floor!

    Que pasa, amigos? I seek an explanation, as solution
    of the Maxwell eqs., modified for quantum field theory,
    with boundary conditions, accounting for the field
    potentials and molecular dynamics of egg chemistry.

    --
    Rich



    Can not explain it,but have been told never to put an egg in the
    shell , hard boiled or not in the microwave.


    Always perforate the egg shell with a needle before attempting to cook
    it in a microwave !

    Better yet - never, under any circumstances, put an in-the-shell egg
    into a microwave. You can poke all the holes in it you like, it'll make
    very little difference. Since the hole is going to "expose" the white,
    that's pretty near a guarantee that's where it will cook first, and
    thereby seal the hole. Once that happens, the steam buildup will cause a rather nice explosion - PERHAPS enough to do *SOME* of what the OP
    claimed,

    My first few MOs were freebies because the dielectric window on the end of
    the waveguide had arced - I just removed the dielectric and used them.

    In my case the exploding egg trick was deliberate - I wanted to see it for myself.

    A chunk of exploded egg landed in the end of the waveguide and the overload caused shorted turns on the mains transformer.

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  • From Ian Field@21:1/5 to Jasen Betts on Tue Feb 2 19:10:43 2016
    "Jasen Betts" <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote in message news:n8cv6m$oo2$2@gonzo.alcatraz...
    On 2016-01-28, rdelaney2001@gmail.com <rdelaney2001@gmail.com> wrote:

    Qué pasa, amigos? I seek an explanation, as solution
    of the Maxwell eqs., modified for quantum field theory,
    with boundary conditions, accounting for the field
    potentials and molecular dynamics of egg chemistry.

    you've got a spheroid shell that can withstand significant pressure
    albumen which has interesting properties when cooked and seems undergo violent composition when overheated

    next time boil the water, then place the egg in it and leave it
    outside of the microwave.

    You can superheat water in a microwave - which tends to erupt violently when you drop something in it.

    Maybe someone can try that with an egg and let me know what happens.

    You can make very frothy coffee that way - but there's only 1/3 cup left
    after its erupted.

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