The recipe (apparently: I was out) is a jar with a little honey in it that you wish to soften; place in the microwave and accidentally type “20 mins” when you meant “20 secs”; go away and return when the room is full of smoke. But the effect is good.
Don’t try this at home
Posted by William M. Connolley on March 22, 2009
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#1 Alistair Wall 2009/03/22
Is that completely carbonised, or is it more of a toffee?
[Definitely not toffee. Looks smells and feels quite carbonised -W]
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#2 Eli Rabett 2009/03/22
Interesting. The same thing happens if you add sulfuric (the official spelling) acid to sugar.
[Ha. We don't want none of your stinkin' "f" acid over here :-) -W]
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#3 Arthur Smith 2009/03/22
Poor user interface. My wife’s already done pretty much the same thing twice with our new microwave; never happened with the old one. And it’s hard to clear the smoke quickly when it’s still freezing outside.
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#4 Left_Wing_Fox 2009/03/22
That’s why I decrystalize honey for 5 seconds at a time.
Other fun tricks, chocolate chips and marshmallows are apparently two halves of a culinary epoxy activated by 15 seconds in the microwave followed by a quick stir.
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#5 EricJuve 2009/03/22
Eli, that’s exactly my reaction. I just bought a liter of H2SO4 just to have a fireworks snake without the fire. Now I’m going upstairs to the kitchen to try this out. I love microwave ovens…….
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#6 EricJuve 2009/03/22
Read the title of the post, DON’t TRY THIS AT HOME”, Good thing microwave ovens are cheap at the second hand store.
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So you build a microwave oven the size of a double garage, and start industrial production of biochar.
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#8 gravityloss 2009/03/25
I read this and was reminded of some certain internet personality who was beekeeping but couldn’t remember who it was… Be careful, lots of people know about your bees!
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/5429952/man-guilty-murdering-beekeeper-honey/