I always think about ElectroBoom purposely trying to make a microwave fail catastrophically with metal objects in it, and what he found was that unless it had some kind of jagged edge or narrow points (like a cut up can or a fork as opposed to an unopened can or a spoon), nothing happened.
Balling up tinfoil barely did anything. A fork would cause sparks off the ends of the tines. I think he eventually got a fire started in there but it took effort to make it happen.
Meanwhile, I put a whole potato in mine not even covered in foil and that fucker sparks and catches fire like a mofo.
Sounds a little dangerous.
This is jus a meme, so i wouldnt actually do this, but i accidentally miked a spoon once and was surprised when it didnt spark. Looked it up and turns out it needs to be metal and lik sharp edges for it arch across. So exposed fork BAD exposed spoon meh
I hear that depends on the microwave. Ours will spark with a spoon, where as my parents in law won’t.
How you fit your parents in law in microwave?
A piece at a time
skilfully
Just wire the knives into the transformer of the microwave
And place three cans of hairspray in between them.
Don’t try to microwave 2 knives at the same time.
Also, don’t use too much time, and be careful picking it up.
So yeah, there are enough warnings that I wouldn’t recommend it. The last one in particular is a real issue.
It can also arc with the wall of the microwave
Burning your house down will soften that butter right up.
Did all commenters get whooshed?
Get a butter bell! No more cold hard butter.
I don’t need to turn my butter into a tamagotchi. I can barely take care of myself.
I love my Le Creuset butter bell, but since going GF I hardly use it anymore.
Took me a second to realize GF didn’t mean girlfriend
Umm, it doesn’t?
Pretty sure it means gluten free
Hot take, gluten is supposed to be good.
Game. Changed. Wish I had known about those things before I went adulting for 30 years.
Anyone looking for one, the Butter Bell brand is stupid expensive, go generic, they all work.
Yes. Any box with a loose lid will do.
The traditional “smørteine” my great grandparents used for this purpose is just a wooden box with a loose lid that they painted fancy.
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Salted butter is.
Just hold the knife under hot tap water for 10 seconds, dry it after though.
Better to microwave a mug of water and soak the knife in it for a minute
make sure you soak it in wood first.
But be careful of a super
boilheating or whatever the term is. You boil water in the microwave and it doesn’t bubble, once you break the tension it all boils at once.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheating
Edit a word and link.
If it’s tap water, there’s zero chance of this happening
Let’s face it life is risky. If you can’t handle it stop living
Put the knife blade under your toaster or hold it over top while toasting.
Just wave the butter, man
Start your day with a challenge: keep it in the fridge
You can also put it on car battery connecting the terminals. That’ll heat it up.
Life hacks
Why not just microwave the butter?
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Why not just microwave the toast?
Hot water in a glass put the knife in glass for a minute wipe it clean use it?
I never had an issue cutting cold butter with a room temperature knife, wtf. Do y’all take it out of the freezer or something?
It’s not cutting the butter, mate. It’s spreading it. The toast isn’t structurally sound enough to support vigorous spreading, so you need the knife warm to melt the butter as you go to spread.
You’d know this struggle if you were a real toast-o.
I’m such a real toast-o that I still don’t need to heat the knife. I either take out the butter in advance, or employ one of three tricks:
- Scrape up a few thin butter shavings from the rest of the butter mass so it warms quicker while the bread is in the toaster, or
- Lay some scrapings on the toast and let it melt in by itself, or
- Just spread it very softly; it’ll spread, trust me. Be patient. Be gentle. Be loving.
Talking bout “real toast-o”. 😜
Oh look at these people who don’t even have butter bells!
Wow, that’s super cool. I don’t have a need for it but that’s very interesting.
I take my toast fast and rough. Gentle buttering is for French pastries.
I do #2 when possible but that’s not compatible with the slotted, vertical toasters.
Gentle buttering is for French pastries.
Hey, if you can’t make it work, that’s on you. 🤷♂️😉 Treat your toast like you treat a lady. Maybe that’s what you already do. 🔥🙈
I do #2 when possible but that’s not compatible with the slotted, vertical toasters.
I only have a vertical toaster. I meant let the butter just sit on the bread after toasting and let it melt in.
The fact that you misunderstood this tells me you’re not a rEaL tOaSt-O 🤪
(Please note I’m spreading the douche on thick right now, I’m not normally this obnoxious lol)
You sonovabitch, I’ve been eating toast since before sliced bread. I’m basically 98% toast. Even when I get into fights, people can’t help but tell me. /s
(Please note I’m spreading the douche on thick right now, I’m not normally this obnoxious lol)
I tend to have that effect on people.
We have this old glass square tray thing with a glass cover that we use. We leave the butter out and it’s spreads great. We live in quite a cold climate (extreme North of Scotland), so it’s ideal. Perhaps not the best idea in Dubai…
butter bells are great, so lovely to have instant soft butter on demand
I use a vegetable peeler to shave off butter curls onto my toast and spread those.
Damn. They must come off like soft serve.
Or foot calusses
Somewhere between a pringle made of soft-serve and a… Actually yeah foot calluses are close.
“Don’t put metal in the science oven!”
