I would have guessed the water would stop swirling within 10s, long before
boiling, which in my oven I attain by setting it to 5:30.
The reason for swirling it was just that a lot of microwave ovens seem to
heat from the top, and if you don't get it swirling, you end up with a cup of
So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation.
Take a smooth china mug, and fill it with water.
Stir the water, so it's swirling nicely (if you don't do this only the
surface will get hot and the experiment probably won't work).
Put it in a microwave on high power for a
Superheated, and it requires some special circumstances.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote:
So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation.
Take a smooth china mug, and fill it with water.
Stir the water, so it's swirling nicely (if
I suspect you were using pure water and it superheated. You were lucky -
superheated water from a microwave can explode and cause a burn.
Myth-buster did short vid on it - using a sugar cube instead of tea bag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0
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So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation.
Take a smooth
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So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation.
Take a smooth china mug, and fill it with water.
Stir the water, so it's swirling nicely (if you don't do
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So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation.
Take a smooth china mug
The reason is because you need nucleation sites for boiling to start. The
teabag adds them.
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Hi,
From what I know, is that when you want to boil a cup of water in a
microwave (b.t.w. over here we tend to call it a magnetron),
you are required to put a metal spoon in the cup of water to make sure
it will boil in a regular way.
I seem to recall it has to do something with the surface
ermmm... putting metal in microwave can be BD, mmmkay.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Man on Bridges manonbrid...@aim.com wrote:
Hi,
From what I know, is that when you want to boil a cup of water in a
microwave (b.t.w. over here we tend to call it a magnetron),
you are required to
A decade ago I would clean the microwave by putting a bowl in the microwave
with water and dishliquid and nuke the crap out of it, it wouldn't boil but
then I'd throw a teaspoon in it and it would explode with hot bubbles and
froth, the microwave was cleaned with superheated water and steam, but
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